Earth.com

System that uses underground sensors and AI can predict soil moisture with 95.49% accuracy

System using underground sensors and AI can predict soil moisture with 95% accuracy, revolutionizing agricultural irrigation.
Orlando Sentinel

Poor root system hinders plant growth

Question: Our three-year-old gardenia has grown very little and is not flowering. What care does it need to make the best growth? Answer: Try to jumpstart this plant by first digging around the base ...
Business Insider

The astonishing underground sounds from the largest organism on Earth, and how they could help soothe your stress away

Pando is the largest organism on Earth, consisting of about 40,000 genetically identical trees. Sound designer Jeff Rice recorded what this organism's vast root system sounds like in a rainstorm. The ...
The Conversation

The amazing system plants use to shape their roots and why it could help protect crops from climate change

Malcolm Bennett receives funding from UK Research Council BBSRC and hosts EU MCSA and EMBO fellow Poonam Mehra. Poonam Mehra receives funding from EMBO and Horizon 2020 Plants have colonised the vast ...
The Washington Post

1,000 archived images reveal how root systems of plants fuel soil health

What’s in a plant? Humans admire them, eat them and rely on them for oxygen release, carbon sequestration, animal habitat and more. But a plant is more than meets the eye. Beneath the soil, its root ...