Plants acquire nutrients via roots and microbes

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Readings: Lambers pgs. 56-58, 239-292, 378-408

Acquisitions of belowground resources is just as important as acquisition of aboveground resources. Today's lecture focuses on the structure and biochemistry of roots, on the nutrients required by plants fr growth and reproduction, and on the microbe-plant interactions that facilitate nutrient acquisition.