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July 3, 2009 05:49An interesting experiment with roots!Well, I had been thinking about the mechanism involved in the growth of roots. Especially the way they grow and form a 3D mesh. I wonder, whether we could "do something" to plants so as to make the roots change color as they grow* and then give them after a few months something to "drink" that would make them hard so as to see their shape after we remove the soil. *This would make it easier than having to follow the complex folding of the roots. It would be fascinating, in my opinion, to see not only the 3D shape of the roots, but also see how it grew as time went by. ALSO, I wonder if we could plot in a 3D plane the 3D shape the roots make, and with some algorithm, find a general pattern for each kind of plant B) My guess is that the 3D shape could be different when: a) We have different kinds of plants of cource |
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This is a very interesting question John!! I can't really answer it but I would like to say that we get a very good sample of root (in it's 3D shape) when we pull roots from the ground (eg. weeds, grass ect). Also, for plants in pots, we can remove the pot and see the shape of the roots with the soil! Try it! It's very interesting.
Of course if we could manage to acomplish what you say, we would have a much better sample, since we won't have damaged any roots that way and we wouldn't have changed their position (like we do when pulling the root). The colour would help as well.
Maybe we could do some kind of xray for plants and have a 3D version of that on computer. That way we won't have to damage any plants and we would have exact results!:cheer:
What do you think?