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Is It Possible to Grow a Mesocottle Rice Seedling?
There is a particular tissue within the rice seedling that we referr to as a mesocottl tissue. It's the first kind of protuberance, if you look s, that comes up. Soil is dark. And also, if you 're not flooding it with water, you want the roots to go down into the soil and get some water. But now that because you have planted it a bit further into the soil, the top part, which is eventually going to be your shoot needs to reach out into the sunlight. These ones at this end, with a good root system and a vigorous shoot, this is what you want to see. This is promising.
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