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In semiarid areas, cereal crops often allocate more biomass to root at the expense of aboveground yield.
Plants under P deficiency showed an increase in the ratio between root shoot area, which indicates a higher investment of resources in the development of the root system at the expense of shoot growth.
However, type 2 has a root system whose RSE starts relatively high and then declines with time (reflecting an ephemeral root system where the ability to forage effectively diminishes as the root system becomes more diffuse) whereas type 2 has a constant RSE (reflecting more investment in maintenance of the root system at the expense of initial efficiency).
The main source of the expense?
The lower Pi concentrations observed in the shoots in the short term are likely to be due to the roots of P-starved seedlings retaining a higher proportion of the available Pi to satisfy root growth at the expense of Pi translocation to support shoot growth.
In response to low water potential, a greater proportion of available resources was dedicated to root growth at the expense of shoot growth, while in response to high salinity, resources were not diverted exclusively to belowground growth.
With old trees, excess root growth at the expense of leaf area may lead to carbon starvation during prolonged drought.
Additionally, crops respond to water stress by increasing root growth at the expense of above-ground biomass and, eventually, yields.
Investing in root growth at the expense of shoot growth in response to salinity stress would not provide the same benefits.
This could be interpreted as the Nannong 1138-2 allele favoring carbon allocation to the shoots at the expense of the roots but the Kefeng No1 allele favoring carbon allocation to the roots at the expense of the shoots.
Reducing the slice thickness may have allowed better visualization of these nerve roots, although at the expense of a prolonged examination time.
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