What do trees remember? Our research reveals trauma and hope hidden in their memories

By Estrella Luna-Diez, Associate Professor in Plant Pathology, School of Biosciences, University of Birmingham
Anne-Marie Culhane, Visiting Research Fellow, Global Systems Institute, University of Exeter
Bruno Barcante Ladvocat Cintra, Research Fellow, Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences and Birmingham Institute of Forest Research, University of Birmingham

Until recently, little was known about how memory functions in trees which experience decades, even centuries, of shifting environmental pressures.

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