Root aeration improves yield and water use efficiency of tomato in heavy clay and saline soils

Water logging and salinity of the soil alter both the physical and biological environment of plant roots. In two experiments, we investigated the effects of imposed aeration on yield and the physiological response of tomato ( Lycopersicon esculentum L.) variety Improved Apollo growing under protecte...

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Published in:	Scientia horticulturae Vol. 108; no. 3; pp. 278 - 288
Main Authors:	Bhattarai, Surya P., Pendergast, Lance, Midmore, David J.
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	Amsterdam Elsevier B.V 08-05-2006 Elsevier
Subjects:	Aeration Agronomy. Soil science and plant productions Biological and medical sciences chlorophyll clay soils crop yield dry matter accumulation dry matter partitioning Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology General agronomy. Plant production harvest index irrigation water leaves Lycopersicon esculentum rhizosphere saline soils saline water Salinity soil air soil water content Solanum lycopersicum var. lycopersicum Subsurface drip irrigation subsurface irrigation tomatoes vegetable crops Vertisol water uptake water use efficiency Aeration Subsurface drip irrigation Lycopersicon esculentum Salinity Vertisol Horticulture Root Clay soil Water use efficiency Tomato Saline soil Vertisols Subsurface irrigation Vegetable crop Dicotyledones Angiospermae Trickle irrigation Spermatophyta Yield Solanaceae Soil plant relation
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