La segregación explotativa de las raíces de las plantas

Ciro Cabal1, Ricardo Martínez-García2,3, Aurora de Castro Aguilar4

  • 1Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA. ccabal@princeton.edu.

Science (New York, N.Y.)
|December 4, 2020
PubMed
Resumen

Comprender la competencia de las raíces de las plantas es clave para la agricultura y la absorción de carbono. Este estudio modela la densidad de las raíces, mostrando que las plantas ajustan estratégicamente el crecimiento de las raíces para superar a sus vecinos, mejorando las estrategias de asignación de carbono.

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