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Meaning of "root hairs"

Root hairs are small, thin-walled outgrowths that extend from the outer layer of plant roots. They greatly increase the surface area of the root, allowing for better absorption of water and nutrients from the soil
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Shampoo and set her root hairs.
The root hairs work as an anchor on the soil.
Regulates osmotic pressure at the root hairs.
Root hairs do not live for very long.
Larvae can feed on fine root hairs.
The root hairs are where most water absorption happens.
Infections in this population of root hairs were rare.
High salts damage root hairs and young roots by desiccation.
Emitter can be damaged or blocked by root hairs.
That was all these root hairs popping off.
Its unique feature is the presence of root hairs.
A localized development of root hairs usually precedes haustorial formation.
Roots have prominent root hairs.
Infected root hairs were short and commonly shaped like question marks.
Sequences of infection of root hairs were described.

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Infected roots are light brown with few or no root hairs.
Fungal hyphae interact with root hairs at the base of clavate mycorrhizae.
A healthy root also has many root hairs.
The root hairs are where most of the nutrients and water are absorbed.
Interactions between hyphae and root hairs were frequent.
Hyphae can penetrate root hairs directly or through breaks or wounds in the rootlets.
Larvae hatch in early spring and feed on root hairs.
Roots are covered with root hairs that absorb water and minerals.
They are creamish in color and covered with root hairs.
It was only that the root hairs were much thicker and meandering like a dragon.
They promote root growth and the proliferation of root hairs.
Covered by root hairs.
The presence of the fungus near the roots induces deformation of root hairs.
Bacteria became attached to epidermal cells and root hairs within minutes of inoculation.
The lower rate for roots is intended to avoid lysis of bare root hairs.
Root hairs can survive for two to three weeks and then die off.
Different results are obtained when malonate is applied on root hairs of various lengths.
Root hairs are produced from the epidermis after germination through interaction with the cortex.
Gluconacetobacter diazotrophicus associates with root hairs and root border cells.
This base exchange of root hairs stimulates soil bacteria and builds humus in the soil.
Water gets absorbed from the soil into the cells of root hairs.
The underground vascularised roots bear root hairs at their tips and generally lack chlorophyll.
What this achieves is to encourage the roots the grow a denser system of root hairs.
In contrast, root hairs only rarely branch.
But large chunks of leaving large areas that do tiny root hairs can penetrate.
After 4 days, root hairs were examined for infection threads.
Roots are smooth, without prominent root hairs.
Damage caused by symphylans to roots and root hairs provides entry points for root-rotting diseases.
Drawing of root tip, showing young root hairs.
Root tip and root hairs, t . s . to show epidermal origin of root hairs.
Older-plant infections are usually limited to roots and root hairs.
To help secure the plant, the root hairs are angled upwards.
There's just thousands and thousands of feet of these root hairs.
Uninoculated root hairs grew and matured over a 10-h growth period.
The plant can absorb potassium from a distance of about 7 mm from the root hairs.

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