Dynamics of soil water content in the rhizosphere

Plant and Soil

Volumn 332, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 163-176

  Carminati, Andrea ^a   Moradi, Ahmad B ^a   Vetterlein, Doris ^a   Vontobel, Peter ^b   Lehmann, Eberhard ^b   Weller, Ulrich ^a   Vogel, Hans Jörg ^a   Oswald, Sascha E ^a  

^a HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

^b PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Hysteresis; Mucilage; Neutron radiography; Rhizosphere; Root water uptake; Water retention curve

Indexed keywords

BULK DENSITY; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; HYSTERESIS; MUCILAGE; RADIOGRAPHY; REWETTING; RHIZOSPHERE; SOIL WATER; TIME DEPENDENT BEHAVIOR; WATER FLOW; WATER RETENTION; WATER UPTAKE;

EID: 77953688676     PISSN: 0032079X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11104-010-0283-8     Document Type: Article

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