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An Optimized Rhizobox Protocol to Visualize Root Growth and Responsiveness to Localized Nutrients
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Root cap and root growth
1Institute of Plant Biology and Physiology of the University of Lausanne, Switzerland.
Planta
|January 31, 2014
Abstract:
The caps of the roots of Zea mays (var. Kelvedon 33) are the source of a growth inhibitor system which also acts on the root elongation of Lens culinaris.
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