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Plants are often celebrated for the parts that are easy to see – flower, leaves, fruit – but scientists are uncovering the secrets of their more mysterious underground networks
Roots of the walking palm
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I’ve been thinking a lot about roots lately. In the seven years I spent studying and researching plants at university, there was always something of a bias towards the easier-to-see parts of a plant – the stems, leaves, flowers and fruit. My doctoral work focussed on the genetics of fruit and seed dispersal, but during one of my experiments I remember a…
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