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THE great impetus given to physiological and œcological botany by the foundation of research laboratories within the tropics gives some indication of the latent possibilities of the new laboratory established in the desert, where the botanical problems awaiting solution are many and varied. While numerous observations have been made upon the morphology of desert-plants, only a few detached physiological experiments have been conducted on them; yet the desert, with its sharply marked and exaggerated characters, offers a favourable field for research into manifold phases of physiological activity, and such research cannot fail to bring to light truths having a general application to plants of all climes.
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GROOM, P. A Botanical Laboratory in the Desert 1 . Nature 69, 569–570 (1904). https://doi.org/10.1038/069569a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/069569a0