Turfgrass—including sports fields, roadside ditches and residential lawns—makes up 40 million acres of the United States' ...

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Prairie farmers have made extraordinary strides in improving soil quality. Two major reasons were the shift from using ...

Many cells in multicellular organisms are specialised ... A long thin 'hair' extends from each cell into the soil increasing the root's surface area. Each root has many thousands of root hairs ...