Sentence examples for a proportion of roots from inspiring English sources

Comparing data with other studies is difficult particularly for root length and root biomass as many studies do not fully excavate the root system, choosing instead to excavate a specified volume of soil around the stem that leaves a proportion of roots remaining in the soil.

Although lysimeters were located below the majority of roots in the studies listed in Table 1, a proportion of tree roots would inevitably occur below the lysimeters at most sites and absorb N. Binkley et al. (1999) noted they knew of no studies that had examined water chemistry profiles of nutrient concentrations through the soil profile into stream water.

Monthly predictions of residuals had a line bias (1.5%), with a proportion of square root of mean square prediction error (RMSPE) due to random error of 97.5%.

No sieving and washing of soil from the trench took place as the number of plants (32) and harvests (15) made it impractical, therefore we will have only retained a proportion of the fine root material.

A large proportion of root-responsive genes (310, ≈25%) fell into the "Initial Positive Response" class (IPR).

The partitioning of biomass between the root and shoot changed over time for the three sizes of PM, with the root as a proportion of total biomass (shoot + root, excluding PM mass) in trees from poles reducing from 48%% in Y1 to 21%% in Y2 and 19%% in Y3.

In this crop, the mature root system is mainly composed of nodal roots, so the maintenance of nodal root formation could result in an increased proportion of root length in the adventitious root system when the overall growth is inhibited by P deficiency (Bayuelo-Jiménez et al., 2011).

A wax layer was used to assess root penetration ability in 104 RILs, replicated over two runs providing data on the number and proportion of roots which got through an 80% wax layer after 24 days [ 7]. Between 115 and 133 lines were screened under greenhouse conditions in two years in two water treatments in thin soil-filled rhizotrons.

In 24 h-treated roots, a proportion of 41%% of the DEGs was common to Eurosis and Loto, whereas 59%% were specific to one or the other genotype.

Posterior intervals on nodes became narrower, as a proportion of node age, with increasing root age under all relaxed clock analyses, but this trend was clearer in MCMCTREE.

b Proportion of roots in top 10 cm of soil.