Want bigger plants? Get to the root of the matter

Sunday, July 1, 2012 - 15:30 in Biology & Nature

Plant scientists have imaged and analyzed, for the first time, how a potted plant's roots are arranged in the soil as the plant develops. In this study,biologists also found that doubling plant pot size makes plants grow over 40 percent larger.

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