Plants don't need gravity to grow, aco ing to a new study out of the Univer Florida (UF). When study authors Anna Lisa Paul and Robert Ferl of UF's Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences monitored images of small, white Arabidopsis thaliana seeds growing both on Earth and in nutrient-rich gel in zero-gravity orbit, they found that both sets of seeds-exposed to the same temperature and environmental conditions-sprouted roots with identical, standard patterns of growth: waving and skewing.
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