Healing haze: Substances in smoke left over from forest fires speed plant growth

The hazy smoke lingering after forest fires contains chemicals that summon the forest back to life - and now are emerging as a potential new generation of agricultural chemicals that could boost food crop production and revitalise barren soil. Those biochemical signalling molecules, which stimulate the plant growth, are the topic of an article in the current issue of Chemical and Engineering News (C and EN), ACS' weekly newsmagazine...

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