Elizabeth Haswell, Washington University in St. Louis (IMAGE)

Washington University in St. Louis

Elizabeth Haswell, Washington University in St. Louis

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Elizabeth Haswell, Ph.D., assistant professor of biology in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, in a growth chamber with her "lab rats," Arabidopsis plants she uses to understand how plants respond to touch, gravity and other mechanical forces. If wild-type Arabidopsis plants are touched frequently. their growth is stunted.

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