Resource capture by localized root proliferation: Why do plants bother?

Annals of Botany

Volumn 77, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 179-186

  Robinson, David ^a  

^a SCOTTISH CROP RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Barley; Carbon; Heterogeneity; Hordeum vulgare; Lateral root; Localized nutrient supply; Nitrate; Phosphate; Proliferation; Root

Indexed keywords

HORDEUM VULGARE;

EID: 0030038331     PISSN: 03057364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbo.1996.0020     Document Type: Article

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