Root orientation of four sorghum cultivars: Application to estimate root length density from root counts in soil profiles

Plant Root

Volumn 2, Issue , 2008, Pages 67-75

  Chopart, Jean Louis ^a   Sine, Bassirou ^b   Dao, Abdalla ^b   Muller, Bertrand ^a,b  

^a CIRAD   (France)

^b Training and Research Regional Center for Food Security and Dry Environments (CERAAS)   (Senegal)

Author keywords

Root architecture; Root modeling; Root orientation; Sorghum (Sorghum bicolor); Trench profile method

Indexed keywords

SORGHUM BICOLOR;

EID: 56749156404     PISSN: None     EISSN: 18816754     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3117/plantroot.2.67     Document Type: Article

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