Minirhizotron imaging reveals that nodulation of field-grown soybean is enhanced by free-air CO2 enrichment only when combined with drought stress

Functional Plant Biology

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 137-147

  Gray, Sharon B ^a   Strellner, Reid S ^a   Puthuval, Kannan K ^a   Ng, Christopher ^a   Shulman, Ross E ^b   Siebers, Matthew H ^a   Rogers, Alistair ^b   Leakey, Andrew D B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

2 esub; elevated CO bsub; FACE; Glycine max; nodule; root

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; CARBON DIOXIDE ENRICHMENT; DROUGHT STRESS; GROWTH RATE; NITROGEN FIXATION; NODULATION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); ROOT; SOYBEAN;

EID: 84873888063     PISSN: 14454408     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/FP12044     Document Type: Article

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