Analysis of several bamboo ... avoid toxic plants – and better extract and absorb nutrients. They also appear to influence the immune system and metabolism, enabling these big mammals to survive ...

The tree is about 100 miles north of Bangalore, India’s third-largest city ... pays laborers to guide young prop roots into bamboo poles filled with manure and soil; they place granite plinths ...

Some of its members are giants, forming by far the largest members of ... of the larger bamboos are very tree-like in appearance and they are sometimes called "bamboo trees".

Like trees, bamboo plants sequester carbon as they grow ... part of the problem is a lack of familiarity. "One of the biggest challenges was nobody really knows how to engineer in bamboo," says ...