Root and rhizosphere processes-high time to dig deeper

Boris Rewald; Douglas L Godbold; Omer Falik; Shimon Rachmilevitch

doi:10.3389/fpls.2014.00278

Root and rhizosphere processes-high time to dig deeper

Front Plant Sci. 2014 Jun 12:5:278. doi: 10.3389/fpls.2014.00278. eCollection 2014.

Authors

Boris Rewald¹, Douglas L Godbold¹, Omer Falik², Shimon Rachmilevitch³

Affiliations

¹ Department of Forest and Soil Sciences, Forest Ecology, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna (BOKU) Vienna, Austria.
² Mitrani Department of Desert Ecology, Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Midreshet Ben-Gurion, Israel.
³ Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research, French Associates Institute for Agriculture and Biotechnology of Drylands, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Midreshet Ben-Gurion, Israel.

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Keywords: aluminum; botany; carbon sequestration; coarse roots; crop breeding; deep roots; drought tolerance; earthworms; ecophysiology of plants; ectomycorrhizae; heavy metals; lead; mycorrhizae; plant growth promoting bacteria; rhizosphere; root dynamics; root ecology; root morphology; root physiology; root system architecture; root system model; root traits; soil hydrology; soil science.