Relationships between root exudation and root morphological and architectural traits vary with growing season.

ABSTRACT: Plants allocate a substantial amount of C belowground for root exudates and for the construction and adjustment of root morphological and architectural traits. What relationships exist between root exudates and other root traits and these relationships change with growing season, however, remain unclear. We quantified the root exudation rate and root morphological traits, including total root length (RL), total root surface area (RS), root diameter (RD), specific root length (SRL), specific root area (SRA) and root tissue density (RTD), and architectural traits, such as branching intensity (BI), and investigated their associations during the rapidly growing season (April and August) and the slowly growing season (December) of three common native tree species, Liquidambar formosana, Micheli

SUBMITTER: Gao Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10849755 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature