Optogenetic control of the guard cell membrane potential and stomatal movement by the light-gated anion channel <i>Gt</i> ACR1
Shouguang Huang, Meiqi Ding, M. Rob G. Roelfsema, Ingo Drèyer, Sönke Scherzer, Khaled A. S. Al‐Rasheid, Shiqiang Gao, Georg Nagel, Rainer Hedrich, Kai R. Konrad
Abstract
ACR1 optogenetics thus provides unequivocal evidence that opening of anion channels is sufficient to close stomata.
Topics & Concepts
Guard cellOptogeneticsTranspirationBiophysicsIon channelChemistryRhodopsinMembrane potentialIonChannel (broadcasting)Cell biologyNeuroscienceBiologyBiochemistryComputer sciencePhotosynthesisRetinalReceptorOrganic chemistryComputer networkPhotoreceptor and optogenetics researchPlant and Biological Electrophysiology StudiesPhotosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms