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Nature 413, 16 (6 September 2001) | doi:10.1038/35092701
To boldly go where no plant has yet been found
Cindy Lee Van Dover1
- Biology Department, College of William & Mary, P. O. Box 8795, Williamsburg, Virginia 23187, USA
US funding agencies' call for ocean exploration should lead to exciting discoveries, with light being shed on some of the least known portions of our biosphere. But contrary to the details given in the News feature "To boldly go" (Nature 412, 672–673; 2001), scientists involved in the study of Blake Ridge methane seeps have no intention of studying plant life supported by methane at 2,000 metres.
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