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Root growth and closed environments
A sealed room allows CO2 uptake and release by shoots and roots to be monitored daily. Nobel and Bobich (pp. 593-598) find that over a 3-month period after planting as bare-rooted specimens, five species of desert succulents diverted all net carbon uptake from the atmosphere and even more stored shoot carbon to newly developing roots.
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