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Importance of the cap cells in maize root gravireaction

✍ Scribed by Paul-Emile Pilet

Publisher
Springer-Verlag
Year
1982
Tongue
English
Weight
160 KB
Volume
156
Category
Article
ISSN
0032-0935

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✦ Synopsis

The length of the maize root cap differs significantly from one root to another. The gravireaction of roots appears to depend upon the cap length; when it is smallest, the downward curvature is lowest. Using a freezing technique, it was possible to destroy a part of the root cap and to observe that the smaller the number of root cap cells which remained, the less pronounced was the gravitropic response.

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