Diffusion of phosphate to plant roots in soil (original) (raw)

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A method is described for computing the theoretical distribution of solutes around a root with root hairs. The P concentration profile around the primary root of a rape seedling with root hairs, growing in a low-P soil, showed considerably greater depletions than predicted by this method, using the relationship between P in soil and in solution obtained from a desorption isotherm experiment. This suggests an enhanced release of soil P into solution in the rhizosphere.

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  1. K. K. S. Bhat
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Soil Science Laboratory, Department of Agricultural Science, University of Oxford

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Bhat, K.K.S., Nye, P.H. & Baldwin, J.P. Diffusion of phosphate to plant roots in soil.Plant Soil 44, 63–72 (1976). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00016955

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