Plant factors influencing phosphorus uptake by white clover from solution culture. II. Root and shoot pruning and split-root studies
Caradus, J.; Snaydon, R.
Plant and soil 3(2): 165-174
1986
ISSN/ISBN: 0032-079X
Accession: 016675276
The effect of phosphorus (P) uptake of root and shoot size of plants of white clover was investigated in three experiments using solution culture. A range of cultivars and ecologically contrasting populations was used. Root and shoot sizes were manipulated by pruning and by a split-root technique. Both root and shoot pruning reduced P uptake rate per plant.