A new study, published today in Science, indicates that the potential for soils to soak up atmospheric carbon dioxide is strongly affected by how long roots live. Large differences in root replacement ...
The natural downward migration of radiocesium in soil exhibits a decontamination effect, which can be regarded as a self-cleaning effect of the forest ecosystem, reducing the air dose rate and ...
We examined nitrate assimilation and root gas fluxes in a wild-type barley (Hordeum vulgare L. cv Steptoe), a mutant (nar1a) deficient in NADH nitrate reductase, and a mutant (nar1a;nar7w) deficient ...