Studying the influence of soil strength on root growth dynamics, Popova et al. document the mechanical and tropic responses of primary roots of maize (Zea mays) seedlings further to penetration of a bilayered soil...
In the olden days – e.g. the 19th Century – science was severely hampered by the lack of technology to perform the experiments that those gentlemen (sorry, gentlewomen…) of the 20th and 21st Centuries of great vision...