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Good Enough To Eat: Greenhouse experiment produces mixed results for our gardener

For me, gardening in an 8-by-8-foot woven plastic greenhouse has been both humbling and rewarding. Humbling because crops don't always perform there the way I expect they will; rewarding because some ...
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Out of the loop: Ecologists report short-term plant-soil feedback experiments fall short in predicting competition outcome of long-term field experiment

LOGAN, UTAH, USA – The cause-effect sequence or “feedback” between plants and their soil microbial communities plays an important role in structuring plant communities. To predict this synergistic ...
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Research offers a reason why diversity in plant species causes higher farming yield, solving 'a bit of a mystery'

LAWRENCE — A study appearing in Nature Communications based on field and greenhouse experiments at the University of Kansas shows how a boost in agricultural yield comes from planting diverse crops ...
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Out of the loop: Ecologists report short-term plant-soil feedback experiments fall short in predicting competition outcome of long-term field experiment

Ecologists have measured plant-soil feedbacks for six perennial prairie grass species in a short-term greenhouse study, and say their findings do not match outcomes observed in long-term experiment ...