Lettuce plants take up chemicals that are released by tyre abrasion: The picture shows the actual experimental setup in which the researchers added tyre abrasion to the nutrient solutions of lettuce plants. (IMAGE)

University of Vienna

Lettuce plants take up chemicals that are released by tyre abrasion: The picture shows the actual experimental setup in which the researchers added tyre abrasion to the nutrient solutions of lettuce plants.

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Lettuce plants take up chemicals that are released by tyre abrasion: The picture shows the actual experimental setup in which the researchers added tyre abrasion to the nutrient solutions of lettuce plants.

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Gabriel Sigmund

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