Garden Plants Nursery is a 68-year-old, third-generation mail-order nursery located in Tennessee. Selling plants for everyone in all zones.
How Universities Use Plants For Research  "We donate to nonprofits," should be the headline on TN Nursery's main page, because they indeed donate to nonprofits though not what you would expect.
In the case of TN Nursery, they donate plants to nonprofits like universities.
So what do universities do with the plants they receive from nurseries like TN Nursery?Plants and Disease Michigan State University, for example, is researching plants' ability to fight off harmful bacteria.
One of the leading causes of low yealing crops is due to disease, and a study indicated that these drops in productivity could result in billions of dollars lost for a given year.
In hindsight, and others like it will help us to better breed consumable plants by testing how their wild cousins deal with diseases and develop newer variants to increase yields in the future.Plants In Space Another college to consider is Harvard University and the work they've completed with NASA.
Today, our understanding of the need for plants grown in zero-gravity environments has grown substantially since.
