Root Branching (IMAGE)

Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Root Branching

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After treatment with auxin, normal plant roots begin branching out to the side. After treatment with synthetic auxin, plants engineered to detect the hormone do the same thing (bumpy root branches shown).

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N. Uchida et al./<i>Nature Chemical Biology</i> 2018

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