ANOMALIES

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Bent stems

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This too is a way to bend and lay plants horizontally on the ground. It is the same principle as we've seen on the previous page (bent nodes): bent stems can only occur when the stem grows faster on one side than on the other. In other words: the cells are only manipulated on one side. This phenomenon is especially spectacular when it involves large, vulnerable crop, such as oil seed rape.

Try it yourself and bend an oil seed rape plant; this is the result:

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