{"id":2163,"date":"2013-01-07T10:14:04","date_gmt":"2013-01-07T15:14:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/?p=2163"},"modified":"2013-06-18T14:34:26","modified_gmt":"2013-06-18T18:34:26","slug":"transparent-soils","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/transparent-soils\/","title":{"rendered":"Transparent soils"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/files\/2013\/01\/root.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-2164\" title=\"root\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/files\/2013\/01\/root-1024x506.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"286\" height=\"141\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/files\/2013\/01\/root-1024x506.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/files\/2013\/01\/root-300x148.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/files\/2013\/01\/root-500x247.jpg 500w, https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/files\/2013\/01\/root.jpg 1050w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 286px) 100vw, 286px\" \/><\/a>Researchers from the James Hutton Institute and the University of Abertay Dundee have created a transparent soil which allows the roots to grow \u201cas exactly as they would in normal soil.\u201d The advantage of this new soil is that observers are able to study roots in detail through this \u201csee-through\u201d soil. It was anticipated by the researchers that this soil would have an impact on many disciplines that are associated with interactions of plant roots and soils.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sciencetech\/article-2228130\/As-clear-mud-Researchers-unveil-soil-change-way-look-plants.html\">As clear as mud: Researchers unveil transparent soil that really could change the way we look at plants<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Image from <a href=\"http:\/\/office.microsoft.com\/en-ca\/images\/results.aspx?qu=root&amp;ex=1#is:2|\">Microsoft Images<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers from the James Hutton Institute and the University of Abertay Dundee have created a transparent soil which allows the roots to grow \u201cas exactly as they would in normal soil.\u201d The advantage of this new soil is that observers &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/transparent-soils\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[165],"class_list":["post-2163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-soils"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2163"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2166,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2163\/revisions\/2166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}