As a farmer, you probably think about plant roots more than most. Even so, they can be easy to overlook. They’re hidden underground, after all. Yet they’re continually changing the shape of the world. This process happens in your fields, where plants use invisible mechanisms for their never-ending growth. Scientists discovered about 15 years ago that genes […] Read more

Taking the pulse of plant growth
Plant roots mysteriously pulsate and we don’t know why, but finding that out could change the way we grow things