Background and aims Root length density (RLD) is a parameter that is difficult to measure, but crucial to estimate water and nutrient uptake by plants. In this study a novel approach is presented to ...

Plant and Soil, Vol. 285, No. 1/2 (2006), pp. 45-55 (11 pages) As the critical information to study flow transport in soil–plant systems, root distributions and root-water-uptake (RWU) patterns have ...

You walk through a field of wheat, ryegrass, or clover and notice the sway of stems and leaves. What you cannot see is where most of the action happens. Beneath the soil surface, roots spread, compete ...