Benchmarking electrical methods for rapid estimation of root biomass

Plant Methods

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Postic, François ^a,b   Doussan, Claude ^b  

^a ARVALIS Institut du Vegetal   (France)

^b UAPV   (France)

Author keywords

Capacitance; Contact electrode; Electrical impedance spectrometry; Root mass; Terminal configuration; Triticum durum; Wheat

Indexed keywords

EID: 85007490214     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17464811     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/S13007-016-0133-7     Document Type: Article

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