Plants can acclimate by using tropisms to link the direction of growth to environmental conditions. Hydrotropism allows roots to forage for water, a process known to depend on abscisic acid (ABA) but ...

Plant and Soil, Vol. 389, No. 1/2 (April 2015), pp. 257-272 (16 pages) Aims Root hydrotropism has been widely studied in seedling radicles through artificial experiments that reduce the influence of ...

Roots display hydrotropism in response to moisture gradients, which is thought to be important for controlling their growth orientation, obtaining water, and establishing their stand in the ...

Plant roots are industrious, often burrowing in search of water even if it means dislodging things like pavement and sewer lines. But how is it exactly that they sense a source of water and nutrients ...

Scientists from the University of Nottingham, England and Tohoku University, Japan have helped to solve a mystery that has fascinated scientists since Charles Darwin - how plant roots sense water and ...

Roots ‘feel’ gravity to extend and anchor themselves in the soil, but they can alter their growth direction toward a water source when needed. However, according to a new study by scientists at the ...

Astrounaut Ron Garan watering cucumber seeds in Japanese module of ISS. Scientists have untangled the competing influences of water and gravity on plant roots–by growing cucumbers during spaceflight.

Plants are fundamental to life on Earth, converting light and carbon dioxide into food and oxygen. Plant growth may be an important part of human survival in exploring space, as well. Gardening in ...

Plants are able to respond to their environment and changes in conditions. In the phototropism phenomenon, for example, plant parts will turn towards the sun. And gravitropism refers to the ability of ...

Despite not having sense organs plants can also sense things and respond to them. Plants respond to things like light, gravity, touch, water etc. These are environmental stimuli for a plant. Plants ...

Part I published under title: Thermotropism in roots. "Annals of botany, vol. XXIX, no. CXIV, April, 1915." https://siris-libraries.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?&profile ...