Study lead James Dalling (IMAGE)

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, News Bureau

Study lead James Dalling

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University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign plant biology professor James Dalling and his colleagues discovered that some tree ferns recycle their dead fronds into roots. The researchers call these repurposed fronds “zombie leaves.”

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