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We know plants much about leafs and flowers but much less about roots. Root characteristics are so diverse, and we aimed to explain what makes the diversity using 150 grassland species.
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Using machine learning, we unexpectedly discovered that seed weight determines some root characteristics the most out of about 100 variables. This discovery leads us to come up with one hypothesis why so, together with fungi that co-exist.
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This page is a summary of: Root traits are more than analogues of leaf traits: the case for diaspore mass, New Phytologist, September 2017, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1111/nph.14748.
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