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Plant roots typically take in oxygen that is available in small spaces between soil particles and give off Carbon dioxide. If roots did not respire,they cannot produce the energy necessary to actively take up minerals from the soil. For proper root respiration , farmers plough or till the soil so that air spaces are created between them

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