. Now, a new paper from Oxford researchers (working in collaboration with researchers from the Chinese Awork.
'The fact that plant roots communicate with plant shoots is in many ways not surprising. Plant shoots incorporate carbon (as CO2) from the air, while plant roots extract mineral nutrients (for example, nitrate or phosphate) from the soil. Coordination of these activities is likely to be selectively advantageous, because it enables the whole plant to optimize its metabolism and growth. But the mechanism of communication has, until recently, been relatively unknown
Read more at: https://phys.org/news/2016-02-benefit.html#jCp
Read more at: https://phys.org/news/2016-02-benefit.html#jCp
