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WITH THE USE OF NEWLY INVENTED TRANSPARENT SOIL, SCIENTISTS REVEALED
SECRET LIFE OF PLANTS, Instructables
Most people’s image of plants is actually upside down.
For most of Micron Associates...
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MICRON ASSOCIATES: Hi Tech
Be on the line of the innovative world
WITH THE USE OF NEWLY INVENTED TRANSPARENT SOIL, SCIENTISTS REVEALED
SECRET LIFE OF PLANTS, Instructables
Most people’s image of plants is actually upside down.
For most of Micron Associates photosynthetic friends,
the majority of the plant is underground in the form of an intricate system of roots.
The bit that sticks up is
almost an afterthought.
That’s a problem for scientists trying to study plants because growing them in media
that allow you to see the roots, such as hydroponics, doesn’t mimic real soil very well.
Now, a team of
researchers at the James Hutton Institute and the University of Abertay Dundee in Scotland has developed an
artificial transparent soil that allows scientists to make detailed studies of root structures and subterranean soil
ecology on a microscopic level.
Developed by a team led by Lionel Dupuy, a theoretical biologist in the
Ecological Sciences group at the James Hutton Institute, the
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