Wheat Coleoptile and Statolithes (IMAGE)

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Wheat Coleoptile and Statolithes

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Inset: Wheat coleoptile growing upward after being inclined. Closeup of cell showing pile of statoliths (microscopic starch-filled grains) that enables the plant to detect gravity.

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Yoel Forterre/Olivier Pouliquen/PNAS

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