A shallow root system and violent straight-line winds caused the uprooting of 1,00,000 trees in Eturunagaram Wildlife Sanctuary, Mulugu district, in August 2024. The disaster affected the forest ...

At the waterline the roots in this forest blossom downward ... creep horizontally under the sand and are anchored by an extensive root system. Like the mangroves, they trap silt that might ...

This makes them very important to the functioning and growth of forest ecosystems ... We then use data from soil and root tip samples uploaded to international gene databases from previous ...