Soil conditions and cereal root system architecture: Review and considerations for linking Darwin and Weaver

Journal of Experimental Botany

Volumn 64, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1193-1208

  Rich, Sarah M ^a   Watt, Michelle ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cereals; Crop productivity; Gravitropism; Root architecture; Root branching; Root elongation; Tropisms.

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; CEREAL; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; MICROCLIMATE; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT ROOT; REVIEW; SOIL; TROPISM;

AGRICULTURE; CEREALS; ENVIRONMENT, CONTROLLED; HUMANS; PLANT ROOTS; SOIL; TROPISM;

EID: 84875167198     PISSN: 00220957     EISSN: 14602431     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jxb/ert043     Document Type: Review

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