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Plant Responses to Gravity

Time-lapse of pea shoot and root growth

Time-lapse of a pea plant growing from seed, showing both the shoot and root system. The roots grown downward in the direction of gravity, which is positive gravitropism, and the shoot grows upward away from gravity, which is negative gravitropism.

Related Terms

  • statolith
  • amyloplast
  • gravitropism
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