Claim · model-written summary
More crown-root living cortical area was associated with a smaller crown-root fraction of total root length.
- Organ / stage
- crown-root LCAe0
- Outcome
- crown-root length relative to total root lengthe0
- Direction
- reducede0
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Verbatim
e0“Greater crown-root LCA was associated with reduced crown-root length relative to total root length.”
Title
Root cortical burden influences drought tolerance in maize
Raúl E. Jaramillo; Eric A. Nord; Joseph G. Chimungu; et al. Annals of Botany 2013. doi:10.1093/aob/mct069
Other claims from this paper (6)
- Association Root respiration correlated strongly with living cortical area.
- Association Living cortical area predicted respiration better than aerenchyma or root diameter.
- Association Aerenchyma reduced respiration in large-diameter roots.
- Observation Aerenchyma and living cortical area varied among parts of the root system.
- Association Lower living cortical area was associated with better drought tolerance.
- Mechanism The authors infer that living cortical area drives root metabolic cost and may aid water acquisition in drying soil.