Root phenes that reduce the metabolic costs of soil exploration: Opportunities for 21st century agriculture

Plant Cell and Environment

Volumn 38, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 1775-1784

  Lynch, Jonathan P ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aerenchyma; Cell file number; Cell size; Nitrogen; Phene; Phenotype; Phosphorus; Respiration; Root; Water

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS ALLOCATION; CELL ORGANELLE; GENOTYPE; LEGUME; MAIZE; METABOLISM; NITROGEN; PHENOTYPE; PHOSPHORUS; ROOTING; SOIL NITROGEN; SOIL TYPE; TWENTY FIRST CENTURY; WATER STRESS;

PHENES; ZEA MAYS;

NITROGEN; PHOSPHORUS; SOIL;

ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; CROP; CYTOLOGY; GENETICS; MAIZE; METABOLISM; PHASEOLUS; PLANT BREEDING; PLANT ROOT; PROCEDURES; SOIL;

CROPS, AGRICULTURAL; NITROGEN; PHASEOLUS; PHOSPHORUS; PLANT BREEDING; PLANT ROOTS; SOIL; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 84938629563     PISSN: 01407791     EISSN: 13653040     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/pce.12451     Document Type: Review

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