Electric charge controls plasmodesma conductivity
Alexander H Howell, Vincent James, Anneline H. Christensen, Viktoriya V. Vasina, Kaare Hartvig Jensen, James Foley, James E. Evans, Howard A. Stone, Winfried Stefan Peters, Michael Knoblauch
The paper shows that anionic fluorescent dyes up to 1 kDa pass through plasmodesmata while smaller cationic ones do not, suggesting plasmodesmal pores may have positive charges.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · Apr 6, 2026Peer-reviewedCell Biology