Research by microbiologists in China and Germany has confirmed what many gardeners already knew by experience: the two sides of a leaf are distinctly different places. It matters because while leaves are small, collectively they’re massive. How massive? Yin and colleagues state in their new paper that total leaf surface area is the equivalent of about twice the surface area of Earth, a massive habitat for microbes. And half of this habitat is on…
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