Root taxa identification in plant mixtures - current techniques and future challenges

Plant and Soil

Volumn 359, Issue 1-2, 2012, Pages 165-182

  Rewald, Boris ^a   Meinen, Catharina ^b   Trockenbrodt, Michael ^c   Ephrath, Jhonathan E ^a   Rachmilevitch, Shimon ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF LAOS   (Laos)

Author keywords

Anatomy and morphology; Chemotaxonomy; IR Spectroscopy; Molecular markers; Root biomass; Root taxa determination

Indexed keywords

ANATOMY; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; BIOMASS; CHEMOTAXONOMY; FUNCTIONAL GROUP; GENETIC MARKER; GLOBAL CHANGE; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; INTRASPECIFIC COMPETITION; MORPHOLOGY; PLANT COMMUNITY; ROOT SYSTEM; TAXONOMY;

EID: 84866502668     PISSN: 0032079X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11104-012-1164-0     Document Type: Review

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