A starting guide to root ecology: strengthening ecological concepts and standardising root classification, sampling, processing and trait measurements

GT Freschet, L Pagès, CM Iversen, LH Comas… - New …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
In the context of a recent massive increase in research on plant root functions and their
impact on the environment, root ecologists currently face many important challenges to keep …

NH4+ toxicity in higher plants: a critical review

DT Britto, HJ Kronzucker - Journal of plant physiology, 2002 - Elsevier
Ammonium (NH4+) toxicity is an issue of global ecological and economic importance. In this
review, we discuss the major themes of NH4+ toxicity, including the occurrence of NH4+ in …

Carbon and nitrogen cycle dynamics in the O‐CN land surface model: 1. Model description, site‐scale evaluation, and sensitivity to parameter estimates

S Zaehle, AD Friend - Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Nitrogen (N) availability plays a key role in terrestrial biosphere dynamics. To understand
and quantify the role of terrestrial N in the Earth system, we developed an advanced …

Nitrogen use efficiency of crop plants: physiological constraints upon nitrogen absorption

ADM Glass - Critical reviews in plant sciences, 2003 - Taylor & Francis
Current global nitrogen fertilizer use has reached approximately one hundred billion kg per
annum. In many agricultural systems, a very substantial portion of this applied nitrogen …

[图书][B] The rhizosphere: biochemistry and organic substances at the soil-plant interface

R Pinton, Z Varanini, P Nannipieri - 2007 - taylorfrancis.com
In the rhizosphere, exudates from plants and microorganisms as well as stable soil organic
matter influence processes that can control plant growth, microbial infections, and nutrient …

Conifer root discrimination against soil nitrate and the ecology of forest succession

HJ Kronzucker, MY Siddiqi, ADM Glass - Nature, 1997 - nature.com
THE high incidence of failure when late-successional conifer species are replanted on
disturbed forest sites is a considerable problem1–3. Here we advance a hypothesis that …

Responses of crop plants to ammonium and nitrate N

SX Li, ZH Wang, BA Stewart - Advances in agronomy, 2013 - Elsevier
Nitrogen (N) is the most important, essential nutrient for all living organisms on earth; it is
present in a number of complex organic molecules and plays extremely important roles in …

High rates of nitrification and nitrate turnover in undisturbed coniferous forests

JM Stark, SC Hart - Nature, 1997 - nature.com
THE importance of nitrate (NO–3) in the internal nitrogen cycle of undisturbed coniferous
ecosystems has not been widely recognized1, 2. Nitrate concentrations in soils from these …

Calcification generates protons for nutrient and bicarbonate uptake

TA McConnaughey, JF Whelan - Earth-Science Reviews, 1997 - Elsevier
The biosphere's great carbonate deposits, from caliche soils to deep-sea carbonate oozes,
precipitate largely as by-products of autotrophic nutrient acquisition physiologies. Protons …

Kinetics of nutrient uptake by roots: responses to global change

H Bassirirad - The New Phytologist, 2000 - cambridge.org
There is a growing recognition that accurate predictions of plant and ecosystem responses
to global change require a better understanding of the mechanisms that control acquisition …