Augusto Zanella‡Corresponding author: Augusto Zanella ( augusto.zanella@unipd.it ) © Augusto Zanella. This is an open access preprint distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Citation:
Zanella A (2023) The spiral of plants in the life cycle. ARPHA Preprints. https://doi.org/10.3897/arphapreprints.e107347 |  |
Dialogue with Sandro Pignatti on natural evolution, considering the soil as a living matrix in which the recycling of organic matter (and DNA) takes place. We discussed the following topics:
1) the relationship between phytosociology and plants’ ecology;
2) the soil as individual or ecosystem digestive machinery;
3) the hypothesis of a complemental flow of DNA pieces in relation to the recycling process that takes place in the soil.
Past and recent research in the fields of biology and evolution highlights a functional and primordial collaboration between living beings in the exploitation of the natural resources. In this process that ultimately is life, the soil plays a crucial role because it cyclically and progressively renews and enriches the sources of elementary structural bricks.