Plant Roots and Their Environment
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Plant Roots and Their Environment

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Plant Roots and Their Environment

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Scientists, within a wide field, ranging from applied forestry and agriculture to physiology, ecology and the environmental sciences, are today more than ever involved in root and mycorrhizal research. New problem-oriented research fields have arisen such as the effects of fertilizers and pesticides, forest management and regeneration etc. At a time when root research is expanding into different areas, it is much more difficult for the root scientist to penetrate all the new information appearing in literature.The contributors of this volume are leading scientists from different fields of root research. The ISRR-symposium in Uppsala clearly demonstrated that there are new techniques in progress, in particular with regards to video recording of plant root systems and digital image processing. The main objectives of the symposium were (i) to provide a forum for communication between scientists from different disciplines working with root research problems, (ii) to contribute to an expansion of root studies into new areas, (iii) to use current estimates of root turnover for charting the upper and lower limit of below-ground production, and (iv) to spread knowledge of new findings and techniques of the importance of root research.This book is aimed at serving as a vehicle for improving the coherence of root research, for harmonizing methods and establishing overall objectives and gaps in the knowledge of rhizosphere dynamics.

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Information

Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
2012
Print ISBN
9780444891044
eBook ISBN
9780444598424
Topic
Biological Sciences
Subtopic
Botany
Index
Biological Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Front Cover
  2. Plant Roots and Their Environment
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Table of Contents
  5. Introduction
  6. Chapter 1. Short review of the present state of root research
  7. Chapter 2. Effect of exogenous factors on water relations in maize roots
  8. Chapter 3. The development of absorption and transport systems in the corn root structural and experimental evidence
  9. Chapter 4. Properties of root membrane lipids as related to mineral nutrition
  10. Chapter 5. Composition of root exchange sites in acidic soil solutions
  11. Chapter 6. Calcium stimulation of ammonium absorption in plants
  12. Chapter 7. Effect of the nitrate level on growth and some aspects of energy metabolism in maize roots
  13. Chapter 8. Effects of Al3+ on seedling growth of silver birch, Scots pine and Norway spruce at steady state nutrition
  14. Chapter 9. Growth of excised maize roots (Zea mays L.) at increasing N-levels
  15. Chapter 10. Nitrate uptake in response to soluble carbohydrates from roots and shoots of young maize plants (Zea mays L.)
  16. Chapter 11. Physiological and morphological changes in maize plants under various flooding conditions
  17. Chapter 12. Short term determination of the actual respiration rate of intact plant roots
  18. Chapter 13. Soil and root phosphatase activity and the utilization of inositol phosphates as dependent on phosphorus supply
  19. Chapter 14. Biological weathering of micas in the rhizosphere as related to potassium absorption by plant roots
  20. Chapter 15. The effect of platinum complexes and other heavy metal salts on root growth
  21. Chapter 16. Cytochemical localization of ATPase in root tissues
  22. Chapter 17. Significance of physiological differentiation of root activities among rice plants (Oryza sativa L.)
  23. Chapter 18. Water content and cell elongation in protruding and growing roots
  24. Chapter 19. Growth of cereal roots in different concentrations of metal ions
  25. Chapter 20. Effect of soil water and nutrient supply on root characteristics and nutrient uptake of plants
  26. Chapter 21. Morphology of maize root systems influenced by local supply of nitrate or ammonia
  27. Chapter 22. Ultrastructural features of epidermis and cortex in aerial roots of Bulbophyllum
  28. Chapter 23. Various forms of root action influencing the availability of soil and fertilizer phosphorus
  29. Chapter 24. Input of organic matter to the soil by tree roots
  30. Chapter 25. Root growth of spruce seedlings cultivated on a lime-rich, acidified soil substrate
  31. Chapter 26. Root investigations in energy forests on rotavated peat soils in Southern Sweden
  32. Chapter 27. Variation in nutrient concentrations of Scots pine roots
  33. Chapter 28. Below-ground tree productivity of Norway spruce forest: a preliminary report
  34. Chapter 29. Above-ground and below-ground biomass of the herb layer in Slovakia's forest ecosystems
  35. Chapter 30. Effect of aluminium on the roots of Picea abies seedlings
  36. Chapter 31. The influence of climatic and soil physical conditions on growth and morphology of Norway spruce roots
  37. Chapter 32. Effect of acid pollutants on the development of the root systems of Norway spruce (Picea abies L. Karst.)
  38. Chapter 33. Root-shoot balance of Hevea planting materials
  39. Chapter 34. Effect of increasing Ca on NH4 absorption and growth of Norway spruce (Picea abies L.) seedlings
  40. Chapter 35. Combined effects of aluminium and nitrogen forms on root growth of ten ecologically distinct plant species
  41. Chapter 36. Biomass of roots in natural oak-hornbeam ecosystems
  42. Chapter 37. Estimation of rate transfer from dead rootlets to organic matter in acid forest soil
  43. Chapter 38. Quantification of edaphic factors influencing root growth
  44. Chapter 39. The importance of mycorrhiza for roots
  45. Chapter 40. VAM fungi in reforestation
  46. Chapter 41. Microbial ecology of the rhizosphere microflora of Crotalaria retusa L. relation to flyash
  47. Chapter 42. Influence of waterlogging on root distribution, fine-root biomass and mycorrhizal number in Norway spruce
  48. Chapter 43. Correlation between root morphogenesis, VA mycorrhizal infection and phosphorus nutrition
  49. Chapter 44. Nitrogen nutrition and mycorrhiza development
  50. Chapter 45. Root research in natural ecosystems
  51. Chapter 46. C-14 translocation to the below ground subsystem in a temperate humid grassland (Argentina)
  52. Chapter 47. Spatial root types
  53. Chapter 48. Influence of environmental conditions on anatomic structures of roots of cirsium acaule
  54. Chapter 49. Productivity in grasslands of the U.S.S.R.
  55. Chapter 50. Root functions in agricultural systems
  56. Chapter 51. Interaction between VA mycorrhizal fungi and root microflora of jute
  57. Chapter 52. Effect of tillage practice on maize (Zea mays L.) root distribution
  58. Chapter 53. Factors affecting the growth and distribution of winter wheat roots under UK field conditions
  59. Chapter 54. The effects of waterlogging on rooting of soft red winter wheat
  60. Chapter 55. Root growth of kiwifruit vines and the impact of canopy manipulations
  61. Chapter 56. Effect of soil CaCO content on root growth and nutrient uptake
  62. Chapter 57. Effects of soil volume on root growth and nutrient uptake
  63. Chapter 58. Root exudation in Beta vulgaris: a comparison with Zea mays
  64. Chapter 59. Morphological aspects of root systems in rice plants
  65. Chapter 60. Responses of growth, shoot to shoot ratio and cytokinin concentrations in root tissue of two barley varieties, differing in their salt resistance
  66. Chapter 61. The influence of cultivation on root growth of winter barley
  67. Chapter 62. Rooting depth and spatial arrangement of roots in winter wheat
  68. Chapter 63. The effect of non-ionic and ionic detergents on the growth of cucumber seedlings
  69. Chapter 64. Effect of VA mycorrhiza inoculated on roots of Zea mays
  70. Chapter 65. Mycorrhizal colonization in roots of tetraploid and hexaploid wheat species
  71. Chapter 66. Spatial arrangement of maize roots in the field
  72. Chapter 67. Review of quantitative root length data in agriculture
  73. Chapter 68. Peltophorum pterocarpa (Dc.) back (Caesalpiniaceae), a tree with a root distribution suitable for alley cropping on acid soils in the humid tropics
  74. Chapter 69. Castor roots in a vertic inceptisol
  75. Chapter 70. The effect of root/shoot ratios on the water relationship of sorghum (Sorghum bicolor L. Moench)
  76. Chapter 71. Some methods of root investigations
  77. Chapter 72. Root length density from core-break observations: sources of error
  78. Chapter 73. Digital picture processing applied to the evaluation of plant root dynamics
  79. Chapter 74. A technique for the study of plant growth and dry matter partitioning at steady state nutrition
  80. Chapter 75. Visual estimation of root length along observation tubes
  81. Chapter 76. Root structure of corn (Zea mays L.). 1. Parameters describing the structure
  82. Chapter 77. A plant growth system to facilitate root observations and treatments
  83. Chapter 78. Comparison of in situ root observations with rhizoscope, video recording and endoscope
  84. Chapter 79. Root structure of corn (Zea mays L.). 2. A three-dimensional simulation model
  85. Chapter 80. Modelling the root system architecture: experimental data on maize root systems geometry
  86. Chapter 81. An intermittent aeroponics system adaptable to root research
  87. Chapter 82. A rapid screening method to describe genetic variability in root development of cereals
  88. Chapter 83. Genetic variability in root development of spring barley (H. vulgare L.) and oats (A. sativa L.)
  89. SUBJECT INDEX