WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - While proving a long-held theory that suberin blocks water and nutrient absorption in plants, a Purdue University scientist learned more about manipulating the substance to ...
IN recent years, there has been renewed debate concerning the effect of water absorption on salt absorption through the roots of intact plants. Salt absorption is regarded by many workers as involving ...
Plants may have no muscles, but they can grow upwards against the strain of gravity and their roots can even shift soil and rocks – because their cells can absorb water to form strong structures. Now ...
THE experiments of Boussiugault, referred to in NATURE, vol. xviii. p. 672, find a fitting sequel in those of the Rev. G. Henslow, detailed in a paper read before the Linnean Society on November 7.
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