Do plant roots always grow downward?

llmtony · Post by **llmtony** » Tue Feb 28, 2006 3:15 pm

Do plant roots always grow downward? Please get back to me as soon as possible.

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carolinethorn · Post by **carolinethorn** » Tue Feb 28, 2006 5:28 pm

Hi,
I noticed that your question is the same as your project question so what are you seeing in your experiment? Is your data suggesting that roots always grow downwards?

Are you posting to try and find more background information for your poster? Try googling the word "geotropism" or looking it up in a dictionary. There have beensome interesting experiments to grow plants in space that you might want to read about too.
http://history.nasa.gov/SP-401/ch5.htm
http://sciam.com/article.cfm?chanID=sa0 ... 9EC588EF21

best of luck,
Caroline