The engineers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have taken it a step further changing the actual composition of plants in order to get them to perform diverse, even unusual functions.

麻省理工学院的工程师们更进一步地改变了植物的实际成分，以使它们发挥不同寻常的功能。

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As a result of these diverse methods by which plants supply resources, unique soil communities form under different plant species and under plant communities that differ in composition.

由于植物提供资源的方法不同，在不同的植物种类和组成不同的植物群落下形成了独特的土壤群落。

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Green algae store food as starch, as do land plants and have cell walls made of cellulose, similar in composition to those of land plants.

绿藻以淀粉的形式储存食物，陆生植物也是如此，它们的细胞壁由纤维素构成，与陆生植物的细胞壁组成相似。

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The once-secret lives of plants are telling researchers volumes about the composition of Earth's atmosphere, providing clues to past and current climate change.

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To date, no drug has been approved in its leaf form because plants contain a complex composition of compounds with uncertain pharmacologies, metabolisms, side-effect profiles, toxicologies, drug interactions, and no control of relative concentrations.

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