But we've also discovered, when it comes to plants, in plants, as much as we understand and are starting to understand their genomes, it is the ecosystem around them, it is the microbes that live in their root systems, that have just as much impact on the character of those plants as the metabolic pathways of the plants themselves.
しかも植物について分かってきたのは ゲノムの理解が進むと同様に 植物を取り囲む生態系 つまり 根に生きる微生物には 植物自身と同じ位 植物の特性を決定すべき 大きな影響力があるのです