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Stanford University

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The researchers' equation representing "payments" from plants to microbes, where α (alpha) is the ratio of carbon the plant allocates to two microbes and β (beta) is the ratio of benefits that the plant receives from those microbes.

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Courtesy of the Peay Lab/Brian Steidinger

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