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. 2015 Mar 5;5:8788. doi: 10.1038/srep08788

Figure 1. Images and conceptual schematics indicating how manual bending of a plant root causes the deformation of its cells: on the convex side cells are stretched, while on the concave side they are compressed22,23.

Figure 1

On the left side, images of a natural root (Zea maize) are shown, with optical microscopy pictures for both rest and bent configurations.