The Effect of Rhizoboxes on Plant Growth and Root: Shoot Biomass Partitioning
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F67985939%3A_____%2F20%3A00534016" target="_blank" >RIV/67985939:_____/20:00534016 - isvavai.cz</a>
Alternative codes found
RIV/00216208:11310/20:10413106
Result on the web
<a href="http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0312236" target="_blank" >http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0312236</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2019.01693" target="_blank" >10.3389/fpls.2019.01693</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
The Effect of Rhizoboxes on Plant Growth and Root: Shoot Biomass Partitioning
Original language description
Various types of flat rhizoboxes aid in root visualization and tracking in experiments where the focus is upon root system growth and development. While size of the pot is known to affect experiments, nothing is known about the impact of rhizoboxes—not only their volume, but also their shape might affect root and shoot growth. Therefore, we investigated how rhizoboxes change plant biomass and root:shoot biomass partitioning. We compared biomass and root:shoot ratio of plants growing in the pots with different geometry—usual three-dimensional, cuboid plant pots and flat twodimensional rhizoboxes about the same volume. We used two different nutritional treatments (deionized water and additional nutrients) for investigating whether the nutrient availability in the substrate changed the impact of rhizoboxes on plant growth. We used 15 species for the generalizability of our results across the phylogenetic tree. Proportional investment of plants into roots was similar in usual pots and in rhizoboxes. This pattern was stable across nutrition treatments and across species. Further, we found no differences in total biomass of plants between pot type within nutrient treatments. With added nutrients, the plants had a higher biomass and lower root:shoot ratio compared to treatments without nutrient addition. Thus, species can be safely compared when grown in the rhizoboxes, rhizoboxes did not affect root system growth comparisons among species and nutrient levels. Also, they did not affect plant growth in terms of total biomass.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
10618 - Ecology
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/GA19-00630S" target="_blank" >GA19-00630S: Mycorrhizal symbiosis, roots and ramets - plant foraging strategies to exploit heterogeneous resources</a><br>
Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2020
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Frontiers in Plant Science
ISSN
1664-462X
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
10
Issue of the periodical within the volume
JAN 17
Country of publishing house
CH - SWITZERLAND
Number of pages
5
Pages from-to
1693
UT code for WoS article
000510913500001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85079002508