The convex hull of the roots of a classical root lattice is called a root polytope. We determine explicit unimodular triangulations of the boundaries of the root polytopes associated to the root lattices An, Cn and Dn, and compute their f -and h-vectors. This leads us to recover formulae for the growth series of these root lattices, which were first conjectured by Conway–Mallows–Sloane and Baak...

David P. Horvath USDA–Agricultural Research Service, Plant Science Research, 1605 Albrecht Boulevard, Fargo, ND 58105-5674 Signals from both leaves and apical or axillary meristems of leafy spurge are known to inhibit root bud growth. To test the hypothesis that carbohydrates and growth regulators affect root bud growth, decapitated leafy spurge plants were hydroponically treated with glucose, ...

The Arabidopsis root is a model system for studying root growth, development, and response to environmental stresses. Due to its small size, many Arabidopsis seedlings can be cultured in a single nutrient-containing agar plate. Two of the common parameters used to evaluate root growth are the root length and the elongation rate. Various methods including manual measurement and digital image ana...

Our understanding of plant growth in response to nitrogen (N) supply is mainly based on studies of mutants and transformants. This study explored the natural variability of Arabidopsis thaliana first to find out its global response to N availability and secondly to characterize the plasticity for growth and N metabolism among 23 genetically distant accessions under normal (N+), limited (N-), an...

The relationship between root stunting caused by the cereal cyst nematode and levels of two root growth inhibiting hormones, abscisic acid and ethylene, was investigated in aseptically cultured root segments and in intact roots of two oat cultivars differing in tolerance to the nematode. Cultured root segments of oat cultivars New Zealand Cape (tolerant) and Sual (intolerant) were inoculated wi...

The effect of root exudates from non-mycorrhizal and mycorrhizal cucumber (Cucumis sativus L.) plants colonized by one of three arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (Gigaspora rosea Nicolson & Schenck, Glomus intraradices Smith & Schenck, or Glomus mosseae (Nicolson & Gerdemann) Gerd. & Trappe) on hyphal growth of Gi. rosea and G. intraradices in axenic culture and on root colonization by G. mosseae in...

Root hairs show highly localized cell expansion focused to their growing tips. This growth pattern is accomplished through restriction of secretion to the elongating apex and modulation of cell wall properties, with the wall just behind the tip becoming rigidified to resist the lateral expansive forces of turgor. In this report we show that root hairs exhibit oscillating growth that is associat...

Phosphorus deficiency in soil is one of the major limiting factors for plant growth. Plasma membrane H+-ATPase (PM H+-ATPase) plays an important role in the plant response to low-phosphorus stress (LP). However, few details are known regarding the action of PM H+-ATPase in mediating root proton (H+) flux and root growth under LP. In this study, we investigated the involvement and function of di...

bauer, 1996). Many pea diseases common in production areas affect root growth and function, thereby limiting Root growth is an important component of plant growth but has productivity (Kraft and Pfleger, 2001, p. 67). Tolerance received little attention by plant breeders because of difficulties associto many root diseases has been attributed to rapid root ated with root observation. Improved ro...

the present study examined the effects of mycorrhizal fungus glomus sp. on pistachio growth parameters and root-rot disease of pistachio seedlings under greenhouse conditions. the experiment was conducted in factorial arrangement based on completely randomized design with six replications. examined factors included: levels of glomus inoculation (with (m1) and without inoculation (m0) and two le...