Claim · model-written summary
Drought significantly increased root length density.
- Taxon
- cotton
Gossypium hirsutumt0 - Treatment
- drought stresse0
- Outcome
- Root length densitye0
- Direction
- increasede0
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Verbatim
e0“Root length density increased significantly under drought stress”
t0“cotton under drought stress”
Title
Fine root and root hair morphology of cotton under drought stress revealed with RhizoPot
Shuang Xiao; Liantao Liu; Yongjiang Zhang; et al. Journal of Agronomy and Crop Science 2020. doi:10.1111/jac.12429
Other claims from this paper (9)
- Method / resource RhizoPot supported healthy cotton growth and observation of fine roots and hairs.
- Intervention effect Average root diameter decreased with longer treatment.
- Intervention effect Drought accelerated fine root death.
- Association Fine root diameter correlated positively with lifespan.
- Intervention effect Soil drought negatively affected root hair lifespan.
- Association Root hair lifespan was associated with growth stage.
- Intervention effect Under drought, cotton developed more slender fine roots.
- Intervention effect Under drought, cotton developed longer root hairs.
- Mechanism The authors infer that this root turnover helps cotton maximize water absorption under drought.