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A COMPREHENSIVE understanding of nutrient uptake by plant roots demands a knowledge of variations along the root. Although it is generally accepted that the region immediately behind the growing tip has relatively greater uptake than other parts of the root1, we have found that even in this apical region there are variations in uptake, that the patterns of uptake in this region differ for different anions and that there are differences between ions in the maintenance of uptake along the root.
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ROVIRA, A., BOWEN, G. Anion Uptake by the Apical Region of Seminal Wheat Roots. Nature 218, 685–686 (1968). https://doi.org/10.1038/218685a0
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