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Table 5 Water deficit modulation of pea and Medicago truncatula compartments in pots or RhizoTubes

From: RhizoTubes as a new tool for high throughput imaging of plant root development and architecture: test, comparison with pot grown plants and validation

 

Shoots

Roots

Nodules

Pisum sativum

 Pots

−19.9 ± 9.8 (A)

1.6 ± 14.4 (A)

−41.2 ± 11.9 (A)

 RhizoTube

−32.6 ± 13.9 (B)

−7.4 ± 14.2 (B)

−36.9 ± 12.8 (A)

Medicago

 Pots

−26.5 ± 30.0 (A)

−11.5 ± 34.5 (A)

−15.9 ± 46.1 (A)

 RhizoTube

−32.4 ± 20.5 (A)

−26.1 ± 23.4 (A)

−27.9 ± 23.3 (A)

  1. Modulation of biomass allocation to shoot, roots and nodules of pea (Kayanne genotype) and Medicago truncatula plants subjected to a water stress versus well-irrigated plants was measured as the ratio of the difference in biomass of shoots (BMS), roots (BMR) or nodules (BMN) between water stress (WS) and well watered (WW) plants to the biomass of well watered plants (n = 5). As an example for shoots, (BMSWS − BMSWW) × 100/BMSWW
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