Plant Centrifuge Laboratory, University City Science Center and Department of Biology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19174.
Plant Physiol. 1976 Aug;58(2):127-30. doi: 10.1104/pp.58.2.127.
If the horizontal clinostat effectively compensates for the influence of the gravity vector on the rotating plant, it should make the plant unresponsive to whatever chronic acceleration may be applied transverse to the axis of clinostat rotation. This was tested by centrifuging plants while they were growing on clinostats. For a number of morphological end-points of development the results depended on the magnitude of the applied g-force. Therefore, gravity compensation by the clinostat was incomplete. This conclusion is in agreement with results of satellite experiments which are reviewed.
如果水平回转仪能有效地补偿重力矢量对旋转植物的影响,那么它应该使植物对沿回转仪旋转轴施加的任何慢性加速度不产生反应。这一点通过在植物生长过程中使它们在回转仪上旋转的同时进行离心实验来测试。对于许多发育的形态学终点,结果取决于所施加的 g 力的大小。因此,回转仪的重力补偿是不完全的。这个结论与所回顾的卫星实验的结果一致。