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Bio-stabilisation of slopes: A review [PDF]

E3S Web of Conferences
Slope stability is essential for mitigating landslides and erosion risks, especially during heavy rainfall. Vegetation significantly enhances slope stability through soil reinforcement and erosion control.
Thakur Kannan, Parihar Niraj Singh, Sood Hemant   +2 more
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Effect of Pruning Young Branches on Fruit and Seed Set in Cassava

Frontiers in Plant Science, 2020
Flowering in cassava is closely linked with branching. Early-flowering genotypes branch low and abundantly. Although farmers prefer late flowering genotypes because of their erect plant architecture, their usefulness as progenitors in breeding is limited
Marcela Pineda, Benchi Yu, Yinong Tian, Nelson Morante, Sandra Salazar, Peter T. Hyde, Tim L. Setter, Hernán Ceballos   +7 more
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Electrical impedance tomography as a tool for phenotyping plant roots

Plant Methods, 2019
Plant roots are complex, three-dimensional structures that play a central role in anchorage, water and nutrient acquisition, storage and interaction with rhizosphere microbes.
Diego D. J. Corona-Lopez, S. Sommer, S. Rolfe, F. Podd, B. Grieve   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Sugars en route to the roots. Transport, metabolism and storage within plant roots and towards microorganisms of the rhizosphere.

Physiologia Plantarum : An International Journal for Plant Biology, 2018
In plants, the root is a typical sink organ that relies exclusively on the import of sugar from the aerial parts. Sucrose is delivered by the phloem to the most distant root tips and, en route to the tip, is used by the different root tissues for ...
N. Hennion, Mickael Durand, Cécile Vriet, J. Doidy, L. Maurousset, R. Lemoine, Nathalie Pourtau   +6 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Morphological responses of plant roots to mechanical stress.

Annals of Botany, 2018
Background Roots are continuously exposed to mechanical pressure and this often results in their morphological modification. Most obvious are changes in the overall form of the root system as well as in the shapes of particular roots.
I. Potocka, Joanna Szymanowska-Pułka
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Roots Mediate the Effects of Snowpack Decline on Soil Bacteria, Fungi, and Nitrogen Cycling in a Northern Hardwood Forest

Frontiers in Microbiology, 2019
Rising winter air temperature will reduce snow depth and duration over the next century in northern hardwood forests. Reductions in snow depth may affect soil bacteria and fungi directly, but also affect soil microbes indirectly through effects of ...
Patrick O. Sorensen, Patrick O. Sorensen, Jennifer M. Bhatnagar, Lynn Christenson, Jorge Duran, Timothy Fahey, Melany C. Fisk, Adrien C. Finzi, Peter M. Groffman, Peter M. Groffman, Jennifer L. Morse, Pamela H. Templer   +11 more
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Soil profile N2O efflux from a cotton field in arid Northwestern China in response to irrigation and nitrogen management

Frontiers in Environmental Science, 2023
It remains uncertain how different N inputs as synthetic fertilizer or manure and irrigation types affect nitrous oxide (N2O) production and effluxes in the subsurface.
Wennong Kuang, Yufeng Wu, Yufeng Wu, Xiaopeng Gao, Mingyuan Yin, Dongwei Gui, Fanjiang Zeng   +6 more
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Toward Self-Growing Soft Robots Inspired by Plant Roots and Based on Additive Manufacturing Technologies

Soft Robotics, 2017
In this article, we present a novel class of robots that are able to move by growing and building their own structure. In particular, taking inspiration by the growing abilities of plant roots, we designed and developed a plant root-like robot that ...
A. Sadeghi, A. Mondini, B. Mazzolai
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The unpredictably eruptive dynamics of spruce budworm populations in eastern Canada

Population Ecology, EarlyView.
We examine historical population data for spruce budworm from several locations through the period 1930–1997, and use density‐dependent recruitment curves to test whether the pattern of population growth over time is more consistent with Royama's (1984; Ecological Monographs 54:429–462) linear R(t) model of harmonic oscillation at Green River New ...
Barry J. Cooke, Jacques Régnière
wiley   +1 more source

A symbiotic footprint in the plant root microbiome

Environmental Microbiome, 2023
Abstract Background A major aim in plant microbiome research is determining the drivers of plant-associated microbial communities. While soil characteristics and host plant identity present key drivers of root microbiome composition, it is still unresolved whether the presence or absence of important plant root symbionts
Hartman, Kyle, Schmid, Marc W, Bodenhausen, Natacha, Bender, S Franz, Valzano-Held, Alain Y, Schlaeppi, Klaus, van der Heijden, Marcel G A   +6 more
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