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Friday, February 28, 2014

GRASS SACRIFICES ITSELF FOR HUMANS - GRASS IS MORE THAN JUST THE LAWN


Grass is way more important than what grows in the front yard. It is breakfast, lunch and dinner: rice, corn, wheat for us as well as food for our cows. As the video explains, grass is the basis for human civilization—despite our ungrateful determination to cut it down.
 
A Nexus Video production for Scientific American.

Watch video here
http://www.scientificamerican.com/video/grass-sacrifices-itself-for-humans/?tab=allVideos

RELATED

Elizabeth Kelogg - The evolution of grass
http://www.plantphysiology.org/content/125/3/1198.full

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