Conditions for the emergence of circumnutations in plant roots.

The plant root system shows remarkably complex behaviors driven by environmental cues and internal dynamics, whose interplay remains largely unknown. A notable example is circumnutation growth movements, which are growth oscillations from side to side of the root apex. Here we describe a model capab...

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Main Authors: Ilya Loshchilov, Emanuela Del Dottore, Barbara Mazzolai, Dario Floreano
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2021-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0252202