By confirming the model, the research helped resolve contradictory results from previous experiments, where root biomass sometimes increased and other times decreased in the presence of neighboring plants.

通过确认该模型，该研究帮助解决了先前实验中相互矛盾的结果，在这些实验中，根生物量有时会增加，有时会在邻近植物存在的情况下减少。