New time-lapse videos capture something that's too slow for our eyes to see: the growing tips of plant roots make corkscrew-like motions, waggling and winding in a helical path as they burrow into the soil. By using time-lapse footage, along with a root-like robot to test ideas, researchers have gained new insights into how and why rice root tips twirl as they grow.
from Latest Science News -- ScienceDaily https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/02/210219190935.htm
from Latest Science News -- ScienceDaily https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/02/210219190935.htm
The hidden dance of roots revealed
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