Dancing Roots (VIDEO)

Duke University

Caption

New time-lapse videos capture something that's too slow for our eyes to see: the growing tips of rice roots make corkscrew-like motions, waggling and winding in a helical path as they burrow into the soil. By using time-lapse footage, along with a root-like robot to test ideas, researchers have gained new insights into how and why plant root tips twirl as they grow.

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Footage courtesy of Benfey/Goldman labs. Produced by Veronique Koch.

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Footage courtesy of Benfey/Goldman labs. Produced by Veronique Koch.

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