walking palm roots
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I’ve been thinking a lot about roots lately. During the seven years I spent studying and researching plants at university, I was always biased toward the easily visible parts of plants, such as stems, leaves, flowers, and fruits. My PhD research focused on the genetics of fruit and seed dispersal, and during an experiment I remembered…
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