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Old 11-24-2012, 05:07 PM   #54 (permalink)
Nicolas Naranja
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I had kind of suspected that bananas produced aerenchyma in response to waterlogged conditions. Bananas have the ability to pump air down to the roots from the shoots. This would make sense since I've been told that in vietnam the were commonly seen near rice paddies. My Mexican friends tell me that they seemed to grow best near streams.

Anyways I have attached an article about Aerenchyma in bananas.
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