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Drought avoidance mechanisms—morphological adaptations that plants undergo when exposed to drought conditions—take a variety of forms. The soybean plant elongates its primary root to increase water        in the rosemary plant, drought triggers a decrease in the plant’s stalk length that limits water loss.
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uptake. For instance, while
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