From root zones to gut flora, a new map reveals how unseen microbes sustain our food supply - and what happens when they vanish.

We don’t often think about plant roots because they are out of sight, out of mind, yet their growth and health greatly affect ...

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In ecosystems around the world, fungi play crucial roles in supporting plant life. Their ability to form connections between ...

New research reveals that fluctuating light conditions—both dim and intense—can empower Panax notoginseng to fight off deadly ...

The starchy vegetable emerged 9 million years ago in the forming Andes mountains — a result of natural interbreeding between an ancient tomato plant and potato-like species that lacked the engorged ...

Understanding how nutrients are synthesized and distributed during seedling development is key to optimizing crop performance ...

Aortic valve insufficiency may be caused by abnormalities of the leaflets, the root, or a combination of both. In some patients, the primary pathology is confined to the aortic root itself, the ...

To solve these issues, this paper builds a root cause diagnosis framework at the operation granularity, named as MicroNet. Since operations are subfunctions of microservices, recorded as invocation ...

Plant wide oscillations are very common in industrial processes. When a control unit oscillates in the process, the oscillation will propagate through the connectivity between units, which will cause ...

When trees and shrubs are grown in turf, competition for nutrients, water and space occurs below ground between turf roots and woody plant roots. Turf wins because its dense fibrous root system ...