The journey belowground: Gardens, nurseries, and beyond

A commentary by Noel Kingsbury including his work with Úna Sherer (pictured). Gardeners always seem to accept the importance of roots, but in a way that is entirely rhetorical and never followed up with any real desire to investigate. Modern nursery production containerises almost everything, thus the consumer will never see anything anyway, just the …

Why go belowground?

A commentary by F. Curtis Lubbe at the Institute of Botany of the Czech Academy of Sciences. The belowground lives of plants are very different than those we see above the soil. As aboveground, in the soil plants grow, branch, forage, compete, and have complex multualistic relationships. However, all of these processes are a bit …