Now there was proof of ion channels. This significant finding should have marked a turning point toward a lustrous career in what would have amounted to a brand-new field of research. But at that point, plant behavior was emaciated of funding yet again. In 1995, then-president Bill Clinton got word that the U. S. Department of Agriculture was funding studies on “stress in plants” with taxpayer money. He even made a jibe about it in that year’s State of the Union Address, implying that he thought the study was about plants needing psychotherapy, and promised to cut such wasteful spending. This
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