Sentence examples for allocation to roots from inspiring English sources

Hasibeder R, Fuchslueger L, Richter A, Bahn M. Summer drought alters carbon allocation to roots and root respiration in mountain grassland.

Differences in the rates of N and P uptake were apparently most important in this short-term experiment and probably due to differences in biomass allocation to roots.

This mechanism could for example help explaining how earthworms increase rice resource allocation to roots and influence the allocation to grains.

Bazzaz was the first to understand that plasticity is itself a trait under selection and to study how variation in allocation to roots, leaves, and especially reproductive structures influences competitive interactions.

Biomass allocation to roots, as quantified by the allometric partitioning coefficient (K) was not altered by P availability in the efficient accessions, but inefficient accessions had a lower K under low P conditions.

The increased partitioning of biomass to shoots and reduced allocation to roots with increasing age, found in trial 1, has been reported for young hybrid poplars grown from cuttings from plantation stock in North America (Wullschleger et al. 2005).

Ratios between below and above-ground growth were significantly reduced by ∼60% the first week after exposure and remained lower for up to three weeks suggesting reduced carbon allocation to root growth.

Relatively higher percentage of NPP in coarse root of DS indicated higher allocation to root to collect more water and nutrients from nutrient deficient soil.

Some reductions in allocation to root production may be acceptable without undermining soil-holding potential.

At the among-plant scale of root plasticity, barley plants responded to low fertilizer treatment with an increased overall allocation to root growth.

Increased resource allocation to root growth is thought to increase water acquisition and therefore adaptation to drought (Chimungu et al. 2014).