Sense of space: Tactile sense for exploratory behavior of roots
In soil, plant roots grow in heterogeneous environments. Plant roots are always facing the difficulty of searching effectively the patchy natural resources, such as water, oxygen, ions and mineral nutrition. Numerous studies reported that root apex navigation enables roots to explore complex environ...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Taylor & Francis Group
2018-03-01
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Series: | Communicative & Integrative Biology |
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Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/19420889.2018.1440881 |