Avoiding transport bottlenecks in an expanding root system: Xylem vessel development in fibrous and pioneer roots under field conditions

American Journal of Botany

Volumn 99, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 1417-1426

  Bagniewska Zadworna, Agnieszka ^a   Byczyk, Julia ^a   Eissenstat, David M ^b   Oleksyn, Jacek ^c   Zadworny, Marcin ^c  

^a ADAM MICKIEWICZ UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF DENDROLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Black cottonwood; Fibrous roots; Heterorhizy; Pioneer roots; Populus trichocarpa; Programmed cell death (PCD); Root anatomy; Salicaceae; Transmission electron microscopy (TEM)

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION; ANATOMY; CELL ORGANELLE; DICOTYLEDON; EMERGENCE; NUTRIENT UPTAKE; ROOT SYSTEM; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; WATER UPTAKE; XYLEM;

APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CYTOLOGY; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; PLANT ROOT; POPULUS; TRANSPORT AT THE CELLULAR LEVEL; ULTRASTRUCTURE; XYLEM;

APOPTOSIS; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; PLANT ROOTS; POPULUS; XYLEM;

POPULUS TRICHOCARPA; SALICACEAE;

EID: 84866072543     PISSN: 00029122     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3732/ajb.1100552     Document Type: Article

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