Roots don’t simply take up nutrients from the soil. They also exude chemicals. The exudates released from living roots play an important role in plant nutrient acquisition. and biochemical processes in the...
Tag - root exudates
Alex Assiry
Fi Gennu
Trading food for water – trees exude more carbon under drought stress
Plants secrete carbon compounds into soils through their roots, affecting microbes in such a way that nutrient availability in the soil can increase. This root exudation can cost over 10% of the carbon fixed through...
Joseph Stinziano
Galactose-containing enriched root exudates of potato interfere with the growth of Pectobacterium atrosepticum
Potato (Solanum tuberosum) is a major food crop worldwide and its cultivation is fraught with difficulty. This is because potato roots and tubers are susceptible to many devastating diseases caused by soil-borne...
botanyone
Rhizosphere biophysics and root water uptake
The combination of soil drying and a high transpiration rate causes severe water stress in plants. In their Viewpoint article, Carminati et al. develop a biophysical model to describe how low soil moisture and high...
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...
Plant phosphorus nutrition under elevated CO2 (Review)
Increasing attention is being focused on the influence of rapid increases in atmospheric CO2 concentration on nutrient cycling in ecosystems. An understanding of how elevated CO2 affects plant utilization and...
