Random root movements in weightlessness

Physiologia Plantarum

Volumn 96, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 169-178

  Johnsson, Anders ^a   Karlsson, Christina ^a   Iversen, Tor Henning ^a   Chapman, David K ^b  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^b DYNAMAC CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Garden cress; Lepidium sativum; Microgravity; Random walk; Root growth; Spontaneous curvatures; Weightlessness

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BRASSICACEAE; FLIGHT EXPERIMENT; GRAVITROPISM; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MANNED; NASA CENTER KSC; NASA DISCIPLINE PLANT BIOLOGY; PHOTOGRAPHY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT ROOT; SHORT DURATION; SPACE FLIGHT; STS-65 SHUTTLE PROJECT; TIME; WEIGHTLESSNESS;

NASA CENTER KSC; NASA DISCIPLINE PLANT BIOLOGY;

FLIGHT EXPERIMENT; MANNED; SHORT DURATION; STS-65 SHUTTLE PROJECT;

BRASSICACEAE; GRAVITROPISM; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHOTOGRAPHY; PLANT ROOTS; SPACE FLIGHT; TIME FACTORS; WEIGHTLESSNESS;

BRASSICACEAE;

EID: 0030050580     PISSN: 00319317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-3054.1996.tb00198.x     Document Type: Article

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