How the roots of land plants evolved, how root ecology affects the utilization of soil resources, and the influence of plant roots on biogeochemical cycles.
Tag - roots
botanyone
Hair today; iHair tomorrow…
At the subterranean interface between ‘plant’ and ‘non-plant’ few structures play a more important role than root hairs – tiny, closed-ended tubular projections from single cells in the root’s epidermis. Not only do...
Nigel Chaffey
New methodologies…
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...
Every day is Dewsday in the forest…
The dew point is ‘the temperature to which a volume of humid air must be cooled… for water vapor to condense into liquid water’, and is usually an early-morning or early-evening phenomenon in nature. OK, but, ‘what is...
Breeding crops with deeper roots could ‘slash CO2 levels’
Breeding crops with roots a metre deeper in the ground could lower atmospheric CO2 levels dramatically, with significant environmental benefits, according to research by a leading University of Manchester scientist...
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