High Meadows Environmental Institute: World's Thinnest Roots are 'Underground Weapons' in Ecological Competition
February 16, 2022
February 16, 2022
PRINCETON, New Jersey, Feb. 16 (TNSJou) -- The High Meadows Environmental Institute issued the following news:
Most of us only think about the easily visible parts of plants -- stems, flowers, leaves -- but in a new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Princeton ecologists Lars Hedin and Mingzhen Lu show that the hidden root systems beneath a South African brushland hold the answer to a biological puzzle.
"For the last 400 million . . .
Most of us only think about the easily visible parts of plants -- stems, flowers, leaves -- but in a new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Princeton ecologists Lars Hedin and Mingzhen Lu show that the hidden root systems beneath a South African brushland hold the answer to a biological puzzle.
"For the last 400 million . . .