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Growth of a root tip over a period of 50 min on a partially desiccated 1.2% gel surface, showing the buildup of both torsional and bending stress in the root tip due to frictional resistance imposed by the gel surface. See Supplemental Video 2 for the original time-lapse images from this sequence. The time signatures in Supplemental Video 2 and this figure are synchronized.
