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Knowledge of Underground Life of Plants Could Help Mitigate Climate Change – AZoCleantech
Plants competing for sunlight—stretching upward and outward to block each other’s exposure to the rays of the sun—is a usual sight. However, there is another competition…
Written by AZoCleantechDec 4 2020
Plants competing for sunlight—stretching upward and outward to block each other’s exposure to the rays of the sun—is a usual sight. However, there is another competition occurring underground, unobserved.
Image Credit: Ciro Cabal, Princeton University Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology.
Similar to how people look for free snacks in the break room when their colleagues are present, plants alter their use of underground resources upon being planted close…
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