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Annals of Botany 2006 97(5):837-838; doi:10.1093/aob/mcl042
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ROOT STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION

PREFACE

T. L. Rost and A. J. Bloom

E-mail tlrost@ucdavis.edu

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This highlight section of the Annals of Botany contains a collection of articles that focus on the structure and function of roots of flowering plants. Most of the papers presented are based on talks given at a symposium on root structure and function at the XVII International Botanical Congress, Vienna, Austria, July 2005. Many of the articles, briefly capsulated below, examine the interactions between plants and the rhizosphere—the below-ground environment that immediately surrounds the root. The rhizosphere is far more complex physically, chemically and biologically than the above-ground environment of the shoot because (1) rapid, long-distance movement of energy or matter is limited through . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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