Images of How Plant Gravity Sensing Will Be Studied (IMAGE)

NASA/Johnson Space Center

Images of How Plant Gravity Sensing Will Be Studied

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Image a is a culture dish of arabidopsis seedlings for the plant gravity sensing investigation. Image b illustrates photon emission from the plants when plants are rotated and calcium ion concentrations increase. Image c illustrates the apparatus for rotating plants and detecting photon emissions.

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JAXA/Hitoshi Tatsumi

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