Drexel’s biowall is North America’s largest living biofilter and the only such structure installed at a U.S. university. It consists of over twelve different varieties of tropical plants that grow in ...

1999) exudates - compounds released into the soil/rhizosphere by plant roots (Walker et al. 2003) hartig net - a net-like structure created by ectomycorrhizae fungal hyphae which envelops the ...

The timing of plants' root placement is due to autophagy, the recycling pathway many people associate with health benefits ...

Watch nutrients flow through an underground circulatory system that connects fungi and plants. A new study shows how these networks form.

Essentially all of the water used by land plants is absorbed from the soil by roots. A root system consists of a complex network of individual roots that vary in age along their length.

The CD growth system did not completely solve the researchers ... that are associated with these different younger and older parts of the roots,” said Alga Zuccaro, a plant-microbe interactions ...