Estimating sugarcane root length density through root mapping and orientation modelling

Plant and Soil

Volumn 313, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 101-112

  Chopart, Jean Louis ^a   Rodrigues, Silvia Rosa ^b   Carvalho De Azevedo, Mateus ^b   De Conti Medina, Cristiane ^b  

^a CIRAD   (France)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF LONDRINA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Root architecture; Root modelling; Root orientation; Saccharum spp.; Trench profile method

Indexed keywords

ESTIMATION METHOD; FIELD METHOD; FINE ROOT; MAPPING METHOD; MEASUREMENT METHOD; MODEL TEST; MODELING; PREDICTION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; ROOT ARCHITECTURE; SPATIAL VARIATION; SUGAR CANE; TRENCH;

BRAZIL; EURASIA; EUROPE; FRANCE; SOUTH AMERICA; WESTERN EUROPE;

NIA; SACCHARUM;

EID: 56349164620     PISSN: 0032079X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11104-008-9683-4     Document Type: Article

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