By growing the plants in different environments with varying amounts of water, we aim to test the hypothesis that the nastic movement of Mimosa pudica is directly influenced by water availability and turgor pressure. With the lack or excess of water in heat within the 4 environments, the turgor pressure in these leaves may be altered. Through understanding how thigmonasty takes place in Mimosa pudica plants, one can infer how changes in the surrounding environment might affect the plant's nastics movements. The experiment is going to be set up in such a way that we can map collected data plots over each other in order to directly compare the results from the different environments. The collected data will give us answers as to how the varying water levels and temperatures directly impacts the plant’s movements.
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