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And then the third thing is, we want the plants to have deeper roots.
So they can do that if they make roots that go deep rather than meander around on the surface of the soil.
Those are the three traits we want to change: more suberin, more roots, and the last one, deep roots.
If ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny, then children are somewhat closer to our roots as primates in the arboreal forest.
They also have the ability to put roots anywhere in the tree itself.
If a portion of a Redwood is rotting, the Redwood will send roots into its own form and draw nutrients out of itself as it falls apart.
We had roots that grew towards each other underground, and when all the pretty blossoms had fallen from our branches, we discovered that we are one tree and not two."
And I realized, the roots of the way I sort of thought was just the only natural way to think about things.
Partnering with these roots are symbiotic fungi called mycorrhizae.
The mycelium spreads across a much larger area than the tree root system and connect the roots of different trees together.
From there, sugar flows down to the roots.
Mycorrhizal fungi encounter the tips of the roots and either surround or penetrate the outer root cells, depending on the type of fungi.
They can, however, collect nutrients from the soil much more efficiently than tree roots— and pass these nutrients into the tree roots.
That means that the sugars flow from the tree roots into the fungal hyphae.
The fungus absorbs some of the sugars, but some travels on and enters the roots of a neighboring tree, a seedling that grows in the shade and has less opportunity to photosynthesize sugars.
He got together with a group of scientists, and they bred perennial grain crops which have deep roots that anchor the fertile topsoil of a farm, preventing erosion and protecting future harvests.
It exudes [unclear]-like compounds from the roots.
Then, what is just as important: get the right fungi in there that will grow into those leaves, bring back the nutrients to the roots of the trees that have just dropped that leaf within 24 hours.
They don't have roots that go into trunks nor to the forest floor.
One of the surprising things I discovered is that, if you pull back with me on those mats of epiphytes, what you'll find underneath them are connections, networks of what we call canopy roots.
These are not epiphyte roots: these are roots that emerge from the trunk and branch of the host trees themselves.
And so they met on the very spot where football roots were invented, on some field in Cambridge.
And the reason being that, you know, seaweed is not like trees, it doesn't have nonproductive parts like roots and trunks and branches and bark.
Pétion tried to stay true to the revolution’s democratic roots by modeling his republic after the United States.
I invite you all, I invite all companies, I invite all governments, all civil society, to listen to indigenous peoples, to go back to our roots.
But it all sounded intriguing to me because it brought me back to my roots.
It's a project that now reaches across three continents, and its roots go into the fields of mathematics, marine biology, feminine handicraft and environmental activism.
I drew my own world, my fears, my suitcase, my roots and everything that I had to leave behind in Venezuela.
These seemingly contradictory features— strength and flexibility, softness and durability— have their roots in the intricate biology of the nearly invisible cotton fiber.
It's capillary action and transpiration pulls water up, a drop at a time, pulling it, releasing it from a leaf and pulling it up through the roots.
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