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Topic: Plant roots

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  Root    Plant  
  Animal and Plant    Garden Plants  
  Power Plant    Plant seeds  
  Plants grow    Flowers Plants  
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Ben Werner,
Student Newspaper Editor

Plant roots would be able to penetrate to the buried P resource facilitating agricultural production while minimising potential dissolved P loss in runoff water.
Miles Rhodes,
Wine Taster

Roots are white and thickly fibrous showing the typical size and structur for plants adapted for damp and wet soils.
Plant roots are suspended mid-air inside a chamber kept at a 100% humidity level and fed with a fine spray of nutrient solution.
Bori Gonbutoren,
Reindeer Herder

Root plants were the dominant crops, including potatoes which did extremely well with the harsh temperature variations of the Andean days.
Hyphae are somewhat analogous to roots or stems in plants whereas the spores would be analogous to the seeds.
Tony Howell,
Skateboarder

These plants are much larger than Trichodiadema and an older plant can easily fill a five gallon pot with thick dark brown tuberous roots.
Bare root plants are best planted in early spring; potted plants should be set at the same depth as they were in the pot.
Living plants are ideal for cytotaxonomic work, as chromosomes can best be studied in roots or buds taken from actively growing plants.
Chrissie Tanner,
Homemaker and Mom

Roots are then worked through the slats in the larger basket as the old smaller basket and plant are placed intact in the larger basket.
Arthur Dawkins,
Astro-physicist

The plants’ roots are allowed to grow into the solution where they can selectively acquire necessary nutrient ions for biomass production.
Plant roots in upper soil surfaces have greater moisture availability due to higher organic matter concentrations.
Roots and stems of the wetland plants form a dense mat where biological and physical processes occur to treat the wastewater.
 
 
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2005-04-10 16:32:51
what do the roots do for the plant?
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