Touch induces rapid floral closure in gentians

Affiliations

• ¹ Hubei Key Laboratory of Regional Development and Environmental Response, School of Resources and Environmental Science, Hubei University, Wuhan 430062, China. Electronic address: daican@hubu.edu.cn.
• ² State Key Laboratory of Hybrid Rice, College of Life Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, China; Core Botanical Gardens/Wuhan Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430074, China.
• ³ College of Life Science, Luoyang Normal University, Luoyang 471934, China.
• ⁴ Research Center for Ecology, College of Science, Tibet University, Lhasa 850000, China.
• ⁵ Core Botanical Gardens/Wuhan Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430074, China.
• ⁶ State Key Laboratory of Hybrid Rice, College of Life Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, China.
• ⁷ Fairy Lake Botanical Garden, Shenzhen 518004, China.
• ⁸ College of Life Science, Luoyang Normal University, Luoyang 471934, China; Core Botanical Gardens/Wuhan Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430074, China. Electronic address: qfwang@wbgcas.cn.