How Plants Know to Send Roots Down and Leaves Up
Monday, October 27, 2008 - 20:14
in Biology & Nature
Researchers have discovered how the transport of an important plant hormone is organized in a way that the plant knows in which direction its roots and leaves have to grow. They discovered how the needed transport protein turns up at the underside of plant cells. The discovery helps explain how plants grow, and how they organize themselves in order to grow.
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