The two adaptations both aid in nutrient uptake, but may work against each other
Tag - rhizosphere
Erin Zimmerman
Has agricultural intensification impacted maize root traits?
How have the roots of maize changed since the introduction of synthetic nitrogen fertiliser in the 1940s?
William Salter
Maize is better when it’s hairy
Root hairs help maize take up phosphorus from the soil.
Fi Gennu
The responses of root morphology and phosphorus-mobilizing exudations in wheat to increasing shoot phosphorus concentration
Soil P deficiency is a major constraint to crop yield in many parts of the world and as such the adaptations of root growth and rhizosphere processes for soil phosphorus (P) acquisition have been investigated...
Root hairs to halt global warming
Can plants help fight global warming? Nigel Chaffey looks to the roots.
Nigel Chaffey
What is it that plant pathogens are attacking?
It might seem obvious that plant pathogens attack plants, but a new paper in Molecular Plant Pathology argues that we should be looking at a wider battle in the soil.
Alun Salt
Suppression of Brassica fungal pathogens by Bacillus amyloliquefaciens
Novel forms of potentially antifungal linear fengycins may serve as a basis for the development of more powerful plant protective agents.
botanyone
Nutrient foraging linked to population growth in understory shrubs
Temperate forests have experienced surges in nitrogen supply since pre-industrial times, together with understory disruptions such as invasions and declines of formerly abundant species. Caplan et al. suggest that there...
The effects of nitrogen form on root morphological and physiological adaptations of maize, white lupin and faba bean under phosphorus deficiency
Root morphological/physiological modifications are important for phosphorus (P) acquisition of plants under P deficiency, but strategies differ among plant species, and detailed studies on the response of maize roots to...
AoBPLANTS
Crop acquisition of phosphorus, iron and zinc in intercropping (Review)
Phosphorus (P), iron (Fe) and zinc (Zn) are essential elements for plant growth and development but their availability in soil is often limited. Xue et al. review the processes regulating the acquisition of these...
Altruistic plants?
There’s been a thoughtfulness* of books recently that reflect on aspects of plant intelligence – e.g. Daniel Chamovitz’s What a Plant Knows, Anthony Trewavas’ Plant Behaviour & Intelligence, Richard Karban’s Plant...
Multi-imaging approach to study the root–soil interface
Combining neutron and fluorescence imaging allows study of the spatiotemporal patterns of oxygen, pH and water content distribution in lupin rhizospheres.
Provision of nitrogen as ammonium rather than nitrate increases silicon uptake in sugarcane
Silicon (Si) is important in mitigating abiotic and biotic plant stresses, yet many agricultural soils, such as those of the rainfed production areas of the South African sugar industry, are deficient in plant-available...
Every day is Dewsday in the forest…
The dew point is ‘the temperature to which a volume of humid air must be cooled… for water vapor to condense into liquid water’, and is usually an early-morning or early-evening phenomenon in nature. OK, but, ‘what is...
