Researchers Discover Chemical Dye that Reveals How a Critical Plant Hormone Helps Root Growth (IMAGE)

Salk Institute

Researchers Discover Chemical Dye that Reveals How a Critical Plant Hormone Helps Root Growth

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In these two images showing different fluorescent markers in the Arabidopsis root tip, the image on the right indicates auxin signaling (green) in the plant's outer layer (red outlines), which in the image on the left defines the onset of acidification (blue outlines) important for cellular growth/elongation.

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Elke Barbez/Gregor Mendel Institute

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