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Solar panels on big Denver buildings throw shade that helps crops grow below them, and the plants return the favor
At first Jennifer Bousselot was furious. Her doctoral thesis on urban rooftop plant cultivation was going to be sullied by the installation of solar panels. The site was the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s downtown Denver office and she had no say. Then a funny thing happened. It turned out the plants under or next to the solar panels, benefitting from the installation’s shade, had greater total biomass, moisture content and overwintering survivability. “We ended up with larger plants,” Bousselot said. “It was a happy accident.” That accident — 15 years ago — set the now 46-year-old Colorado State University assistant professor of horticulture on a career researching rooftop

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