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Installation and imaging of thousands of minirhizotrons to phenotype root systems of field-grown plants

BACKGROUND: Roots are vital to plant performance because they acquire resources from the soil and provide anchorage. However, it remains difficult to assess root system size and distribution because roots are inaccessible in the soil. Existing methods to phenotype entire root systems range from slow...

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Autores principales: Rajurkar, Ashish B., McCoy, Scott M., Ruhter, Jeremy, Mulcrone, Jessica, Freyfogle, Luke, Leakey, Andrew D. B.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8958774/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35346269
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13007-022-00874-2