Summary Germinated rice seedlings completely submerged under water do not show normal root growth and vertical shoot growth unless the water is aerated. From this observation, and earlier ones, it is concluded that rice seedlings in stagnant water in darkness will not develop normally unless a supply of oxygen can be received via the shoot.
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H. A. Kordan (1974) studied this question.
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