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The Willow Tree in Helmont’s Garden

We all get our food from plants, directly or indirectly. Plants produce their own food. How plants do it? Well, we all know the answer: photosynthesis. Plants capture the sunlight and use it in a series of complicated reactions transforming water and carbon dioxide ultimately to glucose and oxygen. However, like most of the scientific breakthroughs, we had to struggle for centuries to come to…