Claim · model-written summary
CEC PRD raised root biomass 19% above controls.
- Taxon
- Tomato
Solanum lycopersicumt0 - Treatment
- PRDe0
- Outcome
- root biomasse0
- Direction
- increasede0
- Value
- 19%e0
- Comparator
- control plantse0
- Setting
- CECe1
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Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.

Verbatim
e0“PRD increased root biomass by 19% over the control plants”
t0“Tomato”
t1“Tomato”
e1“In the CEC, leaf water potential did not differ between treatments at the end of either of two cycles of PRD”
Title
Darren M. Mingo; Julian C. Theobald; Mark A. Bacon; et al. Functional Plant Biology 2004. doi:10.1071/fp04020
Other claims from this paper (7)
- Intervention effect Glasshouse total biomass did not differ after four PRD cycles.
- Intervention effect Glasshouse PRD increased root biomass 55%.
- Intervention effect CEC leaf water potential did not differ after either PRD cycle.
- Observation PRD stomatal conductance was 20% lower at the end than start of the first CEC cycle.
- Intervention effect CEC biomass did not differ after two cycles.
- Association Root biomass promotion was associated with alternating wet and dry compartments.
- Observation Root biomass rose in rewatered compartments following soil drying.