Lazy rice in space: gravity regulates helical movement in plants

Anirban Baral1

  • 1Department of Forest Genetics and Plant Physiology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Umeå, Sweden.

Physiologia Plantarum
|February 22, 2019
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