Response of millet and sorghum to a varying water supply around the primary and nodal roots

Annals of Botany

Volumn 112, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 439-446

  Rostamza, M ^a,b   Richards, R A ^a   Watt, M ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b IRANIAN RESEARCH ORGANIZATION FOR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY IROST   (Iran)

Author keywords

adventitious roots; crown roots; lateral roots; Millet; Pennisetum glaucum; plasticity; soil moisture; sorghum; Sorghum bicolor; split root system

Indexed keywords

WATER;

ADVENTITIOUS ROOT; BIOMASS; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; GERMINATION; GROWTH; MILLET; MULCHING; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; PHLOEM; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; ROOT ARCHITECTURE; ROOT SYSTEM; SOIL MOISTURE; SORGHUM; WATER USE EFFICIENCY;

ADVENTITIOUS ROOTS; ARTICLE; BIOMASS; CROWN ROOTS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LATERAL ROOTS; MILLET; PANICUM; PEARL MILLET; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT; PLANT LEAF; PLANT ROOT; PLASTICITY; SOIL; SOIL MOISTURE; SORGHUM; SPLIT-ROOT SYSTEM;

ADVENTITIOUS ROOTS; CROWN ROOTS; LATERAL ROOTS; MILLET; PENNISETUM GLAUCUM; PLASTICITY; SOIL MOISTURE; SORGHUM; SORGHUM BICOLOR; SPLIT-ROOT SYSTEM;

BIOMASS; PANICUM; PLANT LEAVES; PLANT ROOTS; PLANT SHOOTS; SOIL; SORGHUM; WATER;

EID: 84880271285     PISSN: 03057364     EISSN: 10958290     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/aob/mct099     Document Type: Article

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