2015 | Brazil | Documentary,Short

Estratégias subterrâneas (Undergound strategies)

  • Portuguese 9 mins
  • Director | Caio Polesi, Tiago Marconi
  • Writer | Daniel Salaroli
  • Producer | Gisele Frederico

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In the rupestrian fields, where vegetation can grow over rocks or sand, plants use specialized strategies to absorb the scarce nutrients. A biologist from State University of Campinas, in Brazil, has been discovering some of those strategies, like specialized structures in roots that secrete a substance capable of releasing the phosphor in the soil. Other plants kkep their leaves buried in the sand and capture little worms.

Biology Plants Flora Botany
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