Soil exploration and resource acquisition by plant roots: An architectural and modelling point of view

Sustainable Agriculture

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 583-600

  Doussan, Claude ^a   Pagès, Loïc ^b   Pierret, Alain ^b  

^a CEMAGREF   (France)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Architecture; Model; Review; Root system; Soil exploration

Indexed keywords

EID: 84863856195     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-90-481-2666-8_36     Document Type: Chapter

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