Characterization of Root Hair Curling and Nodule Development in Soybean–Rhizobia Symbiosis
Soybean plants form symbiotic nitrogen-fixing nodules with specific rhizobia bacteria. The root hair is the initial infection site for the symbiotic process before the nodules.
Wei Lu, Xiaochan Wang, Weidong Jia
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Arbuscular mycorrhizal colonization outcompetes root hairs in maize under low phosphorus availability. [PDF]
Ma X, Li X, Ludewig U.
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Heterogeneous nutrient supply promotes maize growth and phosphorus acquisition: additive and compensatory effects of lateral roots and root hairs. [PDF]
Wang L, Li X, Mang M, Ludewig U, Shen J.
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Symbiotic Performance of Diverse Frankia Strains on Salt-Stressed Casuarina glauca and Casuarina equisetifolia Plants [PDF]
Symbiotic nitrogen-fixing associations between Casuarina trees and the actinobacteria Frankia are widely used in agroforestry in particular for salinized land reclamation.
Champion, Antony +11 more
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A study of the root surface phosphatase activities of three species of higher plants: Juncus effusus, Phragnutes australis, and Typha latifolia [PDF]
The aim of this project was to investigate a possible link between environmental phosphorus status and the root surface phosphatase activities of three species of emergent macrophytes, with a view to assessing their potential for use as "biondicators ...
Luff, Heather
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Root hairs are the most important root trait for rhizosheath formation of barley (Hordeum vulgare), maize (Zea mays) and Lotus japonicus (Gifu). [PDF]
Burak E, Quinton JN, Dodd IC.
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Hormonal regulation of wheat growth during hydroponic culture [PDF]
Hormonal control of root growth has been explored as one means to alleviate the crowding of plant root systems experienced in prototype hydroponic biomass production chambers being developed by the CELSS Breadboard Project.
Wetherell, Donald
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Thesaurus-based index term extraction for agricultural documents [PDF]
This paper describes a new algorithm for automatically extracting index terms from documents relating to the domain of agriculture. The domain-specific Agrovoc thesaurus developed by the FAO is used both as a controlled vocabulary and as a knowledge base
Medelyan, Olena, Witten, Ian H.
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