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École polytechnique hydrodynamics lab publishes PNAS study on how raindrops help plants reproduce

A team from LadHyX, École polytechnique's hydrodynamics laboratory, has published an article in the journal PNAS on an ingenious dispersal mechanism used by certain plants.

Photo: David Monniaux / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0

Why it matters: The article adds a PNAS publication to the record of École polytechnique's hydrodynamics laboratory, LadHyX.

École polytechnique reported that a team from its Laboratoire d'hydrodynamique (LadHyX, a hydrodynamics laboratory) has published an article in the journal PNAS.

According to the institution, the article examines an ingenious dispersal mechanism adopted by certain plants, presented under the title of how raindrops help plants reproduce.

The institution's announcement includes explanations of the work from doctoral student Ana Bratu.

Editor’s view

Scott James, Research and Innovation Editor

The team directly affected is the LadHyX laboratory at École polytechnique, whose article on a plant dispersal mechanism has been published in PNAS, with the institution's announcement featuring explanations from doctoral student Ana Bratu.

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