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Do Oaks Encourage the Baby-Eating Chipmunks of China?
You might expect acorn-eating chipmunks to be the enemies of oaks. New research out of Henan and Jiangxi suggests that the chipmunks aid oaks because acorns are not the only babies that the chipmunks eat.
DigR: a generic model and simulator of 3D root-system architecture
Several models of root system architecture exist in the literature but few of them are targeted at the organ level in response to environmental...
Octulose, about to get bigger?
What is octulose? And why is it about to be bigger? Well, according to Qingwei Zhang and Dorothea Bartels, it’s a “forgotten metabolite”. Yes,...
Image-based dynamic quantification and 3D evaluation for canopy structure
Phenotypic analysis with high-throughput, high-accuracy and low-cost technologies has become widely accessible. Hui et al. reconstruct and evaluate 3D canopy of plant population for...
Maize nutrient uptake and photosynthesis in intercropping
Maize and wheat are globally important food crops. The two species can be grown as an intercrop, with substantial land sparing in the order...
Roots create … rock
The more I learn about roots, the more amazing they appear. Not only do they provide essential support for, and anchorage of, the aerial,...
