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Plant roots mysteriously pulsate and we don't know why – but finding out could change the way we grow things

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par Etienne Farcot, Associate professor of Mathematics, University of Nottingham

You probably don’t think about plant roots all that much – they’re hidden underground after all. Yet they’re continually changing the shape of the world. This process happens in your garden, where plants use invisible mechanisms for their never-ending growth.

Scientists discovered about 15 years ago that genes at the root tip (or more precisely, the level of proteins produced…

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