Quantification of Mycorrhizal water uptake via high-resolution on-line water content sensors

Plant and Soil

Volumn 342, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 459-468

  Ruth, Bernhard ^a   Khalvati, Mohamedali ^b   Schmidhalter, Urs ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Barley; Compartmented pots; Drought; Glomus intraradices; Plant hyphal chamber; Stress; Water flow

Indexed keywords

ARBUSCULAR MYCORRHIZA; BARLEY; DROUGHT STRESS; GEOMETRY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SENSOR; WATER CONTENT; WATER FLOW;

ARBUSCULAR; FUNGI; GLOMUS; GLOMUS INTRARADICES; HORDEUM; HORDEUM VULGARE;

EID: 79955009098     PISSN: 0032079X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11104-010-0709-3     Document Type: Article

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