Claim · model-written summary
The proU-GFP sensor reported increasingly negative soil water potentials with axial distance from maize root tips.
- Organ / stage
- rootse0
- Outcome
- soil water potentialse0
- Direction
- more negativee0
- Qualifier
- axial distance from tipse0
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Verbatim
e0“The proU-GFP microbiosensor reported more negative soil water potentials as a function of axial distance from tips of Zea mays L. roots, reflecting the gradient in water potential hypothesized to develop during transpiration.”
Title
Patrick M. Herron OpenCommons - UConn (University of Connecticut) 2008
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