The importance of soil drying and re-wetting in crop phytohormonal and nutritional responses to deficit irrigation

Journal of Experimental Botany

Volumn 66, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 2239-2252

  Dodd, Ian C ^a   Puértolas, Jaime ^a   Huber, Katrin ^b   Pérez Pérez, Juan Gabriel ^c   Wright, Hannah R ^a   Blackwell, Martin S A ^d  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^c IMIDA   (Spain)

^d ROTHAMSTED RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

ABA; alternate wetting and drying; partial rootzone drying; root to shoot signalling; soil phosphorus dynamics; xylem sap

Indexed keywords

PHYTOHORMONE; SOIL;

DESICCATION; DRUG EFFECTS; IRRIGATION (AGRICULTURE); NUTRITION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOIL;

AGRICULTURAL IRRIGATION; DESICCATION; NUTRITIONAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; PLANT GROWTH REGULATORS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOIL;

EID: 84929660262     PISSN: 00220957     EISSN: 14602431     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jxb/eru532     Document Type: Review

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