Growth in Turface® clay permits root hair phenotyping along the entire crown root in cereal crops and demonstrates that root hair growth can extend well beyond the root hair zone

BMC Research Notes

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Goron, Travis L ^a   Watts, Sophia ^a   Shearer, Charles ^a   Raizada, Manish N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cereal; Clay; Crown root; Finger millet; Maize; Root hair; Root hair zone; Turface ; Wheat

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM SILICATE; CLAY; SOIL;

ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; CHEMISTRY; DEVICES; ELEUSINE; FOOD GRAIN; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HUMAN; IRRIGATION (AGRICULTURE); MAIZE; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT ROOT; PROCEDURES; SOIL; WHEAT;

AGRICULTURAL IRRIGATION; ALUMINUM SILICATES; EDIBLE GRAIN; ELEUSINE; HUMANS; PHENOTYPE; PLANT ROOTS; SOIL; TRITICUM; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 84928482348     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17560500     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13104-015-1108-x     Document Type: Article

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