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. 2021 May 10;12(5):709. doi: 10.3390/genes12050709

Figure 1.

Figure 1

The root system architecture of desert plants exploits the top-soil water reservoir, the deep-soil groundwater, or both. The root system width and shoots size are not according to scale; date palm roots can reach deeper than 5 m [4,7,17,18,19].