Evaluating plant root capacity in extrating water from the soil is important for transpiration modeling and to understand crop growth and yield and soil water and nutrient balance. Aiming to test a macroscopic root water extraction model based on the microscopic process description, an experiment was described in which the root system of plants penetrated different soil layers with contrasting hydraulic properties. Four lysimeters containing two physically divided compartments were built and filled with material of two soils with different […]

An experiment was installed under greenhouse conditions to study growth depression in mycorrhizal citrus rootstocks at six P levels (0, 50, 100, 150, 200, and 250 mg kg-1), with and without (controls) inoculation of the arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus (AMF) (Glomus intraradices). The rootstock used was Citrus reshni Hort. Ex Tanaka, cv. Cleópatra, grown in an autoclaved, limed mixture (3:1) of a soil with low available P and washed sand. There were five replicates per treatment, in a random 6 x 2 factorial design. Six […]