Fine root diameters can change in response to changes in nutrient concentrations

By Richard W. Zobel Jr., T. Kinraide, V. Baligar. Plant and Soil, 2007

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Heavy Metal Tolerance in Plants: Role of Transcriptomics, Proteomics, Metabolomics, and Ionomics (2016, background): “It has also been demonstrated that inhibition in root growth is accompanied by an increase in root diameter, suggesting that plant cytoskeleton might also be a target of heavy metal toxicity (Zobel et al., 2007).”
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