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Scientists are still trying to puzzle out strange oscillations in plant root genes,
The important role living roots play for sustaining life belowground should prompt us to rethink forest management.
What fossil records tell us about when the Earth was first covered by plants.
New research finds that some common houseplants take in nutrients from outside the soil.
A team of scientists unravelled the mystery of how plant roots make the most of soil moisture.
We may think of plants as passive life forms, but they can cooperate, share resources, send one another warnings, and distance themselves from their communities when survival depends on it.
Researchers have unearthed a ‘biological switch’ which could boost crop yield worldwide.
It is a good time to ask how the travel and tourism industry has contributed to racism and how that can change.
The television dramas have not exaggerated the horrors of the slave trade. The reality was often even worse for Africans taken from their homes.
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Professor of Plant Sciences, University of Nottingham
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Professor of Soil Microbial Ecology, University of British Columbia
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Post Doctoral Associate in the Institute of Environment, Florida International University
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Assistant Professor, Faculty of Science, University of Nottingham
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Associate professor of Mathematics, University of Nottingham
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Postdoctoral fellow in Biosciences, University of Nottingham
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Cindy Prescott is a Friend of The Conversation.
Professor Emerita of Forest Ecology, University of British Columbia
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Vice President of Academic Affairs and Dean of the College, Grinnell College
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Plant Evolutionary Biologist, University of Edinburgh
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Research scientist, School of Biosciences, University of Nottingham
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Professor of Agroecology, Florida International University
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Professor in Soil Physics and Director of the Hounsfield Facility, University of Nottingham
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Professor of Latin American History, University of Leeds
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Assistant Professor. L. Robert Payne School of Hospitality and Tourism Management, Tourism RESET, San Diego State University