{"id":678430,"date":"2021-01-15T10:13:31","date_gmt":"2021-01-15T14:13:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=678430"},"modified":"2021-01-15T10:13:31","modified_gmt":"2021-01-15T14:13:31","slug":"mutant-roots-reveal-how-we-can-grow-crops-in-damaged-soils","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=678430","title":{"rendered":"Mutant roots reveal how we can grow crops in damaged soils"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For years, conventional wisdom has held that roots don&#8217;t grow as deep in hard soil because it&#8217;s just too difficult for them to physically push through it. But our new research has unearthed another reason: their growth is controlled by a biological signal which can be &#8220;switched off,&#8221; enabling them to punch through compacted earth. It&#8217;s a discovery that could help crops to grow in even the most damaged of soils.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2021-01-mutant-roots-reveal-crops-soils.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Mutant roots reveal how we can grow crops in damaged soils<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For years, conventional wisdom has held that roots don&#8217;t grow as deep in hard soil because it&#8217;s just too difficult for them to physically push through it. But our new&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-678430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phys-org"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=678430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678430\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=678430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=678430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=678430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}