Scientists have developed a rhizosphere-on-a-chip with a transparent, simulated soil structure that allows scientists to view how roots grow over time through the pores in the soil. Paired with ...

Last year botanists at the James Hutton Institute in Dundee, UK, partly cracked the problem when they developed transparent soil ... what’s growing in a pot doesn’t necessarily grow in ...

Plant biologists who study the rhizosphere — the narrow region of soil in which roots and microorganisms grow — have never ... is to create transparent soil — and this is exactly what ...

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That’s a problem for scientists trying to study plants because growing them in media that ... in Scotland has developed an artificial transparent soil that allows scientists to make detailed ...