Interpreting Data A botanist from Harvard University hypothesized that garlic mustard, an invasive plant found in forests of the northeastern United States, suppresses the growth of trees by harming mycorrhizal
Source K A Stinson et al, Invasive plant suppresses the growth of native tree seedlings by disrupting belowground mutualisms, Public Library of Science: Biology 4(5):e140 (2006).
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