The amazing diversity of root forms among native wetland plantsBaets, DeProject, ArboretumJosh, AssistantFacility, MesocosmBrown, JoshMendota, Lake
Trade-offs are often assumed to be bidirectional, where opposite ends of a gradient in trait values confer advantages in different environments. However, unidirectional benefits could be widespread if extreme trait values confer advantages at one end of an environmental gradient, whereas a wide range...
Root systems of native shrubs and trees in Hong Kong and their effects on enhancing slope stability Root systemRoot tensile strengthSlope stabilityObjectives: Mechanical reinforcement by plant roots is believed to have an important role in stabilizing highly ... Leung, Flora T. Y.Yan, W. M.Hau...
2,3,4. For plants to thrive in this new environment, number of dramatic developmental adaptations occurred5; among them, the evolution of efficient root gravitropic response that allows roots to grow deep into the soil. The early diverging land plants were non-vascular...
In many native ecosystems, acquisition of nitrogen (N) depends on bioavailability of this element at the root surface. However, root system characteristics and how they respond to environmental factors are critical to a better understanding of N acquisition in terrestrial plants. This chapter provides...
The recent measurements of high percentage embolized vessels in a sample of maize axile roots during the day raised the question whether such interruptions to water flow could occur in plants that had only a single water-supplying root. Zea mays L. plants were grown in the field on a root ...
The super root pathway of regeneration, from protoplasts to callus, roots, root culture and plants, allows the virtually unlimited mass regeneration of plants from root protoplasts. Regenerating super root protoplasts add an important component to tissue culture systems for legume/ Rhizobium research. ...
Leymus chinensis (L. chinensis) is a perennial native forage grass widely distributed in the steppe of Inner Mongolia as the dominant species. Calcium (Ca) is an essential mineral element important for plant adaptation to the growth environment. Ca limit
We hypothesized that a microbiota–root–shoot axis exists in plants, allowing them to take advantage of belowground microbial commensals to orchestrate aboveground stress responses. First, we assembled a synthetic microbial consortium (SynCom; Extended Data Fig.1aand Supplementary Table1) with phylogeneti...
However, most research on exudate effects on soil organic matter uses highly homogenized or artificial soil, leaving major uncertainties in how exudates will influence carbon dynamics in natural, intact soil systems. We used 13C-labelled artificial root exudates to examine the effects of exudation ...