{"id":918636,"date":"2026-07-09T18:14:34","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T23:14:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/09\/newly-identified-saprotropism-helps-roots-avoid-decaying-plant-matter-but-not-animal-decay\/"},"modified":"2026-07-09T18:14:34","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T23:14:34","slug":"newly-identified-saprotropism-helps-roots-avoid-decaying-plant-matter-but-not-animal-decay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/09\/newly-identified-saprotropism-helps-roots-avoid-decaying-plant-matter-but-not-animal-decay\/","title":{"rendered":"Newly identified &#8216;saprotropism&#8217; helps roots avoid decaying plant matter\u2014but not animal decay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Science &#038; Nature Decaying matter shapes life in soil, but it can also create hostile zones for growing roots. Professor Ji\u0159\u00ed Friml of the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA) and international collaborators have now identified &#8220;saprotropism,&#8221; a root response that guides plants away from decaying plant-derived matter\u2014but not animal-derived decay&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-07-newly-saprotropism-roots-decaying-animal.html\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a>Anthony Pepper<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Science &#038; Nature Decaying matter shapes life in soil, but it can also create hostile zones for growing roots. Professor Ji\u0159\u00ed Friml of the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA) and international collaborators have now identified &#8220;saprotropism,&#8221; a root response that guides plants away from decaying plant-derived matter\u2014but not animal-derived decay&#8230;Read MoreAnthony Pepper<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":918637,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35968,25187,536],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-918636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-identified","category-newly","category-science-nature"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=918636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918636\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/918637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=918636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=918636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=918636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}