A Text-Book of Plant Physiology

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Even slow water-currents have been found to stimulate and direct growth and movement in rather peculiar fashion. Thus the roots of certain plants, if suspended in clean running water, will bend so that the tips point and grow up stream. This phenomenon is known as rheotropisin.* The plasmodia of certain Myxomycetes will grow on a vertical strip of filter-paper always in the direc- tion opposite to that of the current of water which is sup- * Juel, H. 0. Untersuchungen iiber den Eheotropismus de...r Wurzeln.
Jahrb. f. wiss. Bot., Bd. 34, 1900. Newcombe, F. C. Eheotropism of roots. Bot. Gazette vol. ,33 1902.
190 PLANT PHYSIOLOGY l^lied to them, whether this be ui^ward or downward. This phenomenon is called rheotaxit:,*' but it is not certain that it is not a resjionse to obscure chemical stimuli rather than to a current of water merely'. Rheotaxis and rheo- tropism are therefore probably distinct phenomena. The signiflcance of rheotropism is not understood.
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