Cotton Root Tip (IMAGE)

Botanical Society of America

Cotton Root Tip

Caption

This is a mass of border cell-root cap mucilage covering a cotton root tip, 30 seconds after immersion into water.

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Courtesy Gilberto Curlango-Rivera (University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona), et al.

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