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Chiral and non-chiral nutations in Arabidopsis roots grown on the random positioning machine.
Journal of experimental botany - 1 Aug 2003
Piconese S, Tronelli G, Pippia P, Migliaccio F
Abstract excerpt
Arabidopsis thaliana roots grown on a vertically set plate do not elongate straight down the gravitational vector, but by making waves and coils, and by conspicuously slanting towards the right-hand. This behaviour, in a previous paper, was ascribed to the simultaneous effect of three processes: circumnutation, positive gravitropism and negative thigmotropism. However, when the plants are grown on the Random...
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