Plant Roots Sense Light, Thanks to Fiber Optic Cable-Like Stems (IMAGE)

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Plant Roots Sense Light, Thanks to Fiber Optic Cable-Like Stems

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Plants exposed to light (left pot), left in the dark (middle pot), or under soil-light block conditions (right pot), in which the soil surface was covered to completely block light transmission through the soil..

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Lee <i>et al., Science Signaling </i>(2016)

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