Roots of Crops from the Window of an Forage Expert

Year 2021, Volume: 2 Issue: 1, 31 - 36, 30.06.2021

Nizamettin Turan , Seyithan Seydoşoğlu

https://doi.org/10.51801/turkjrfs.925775

Abstract

Less known infos like the effect of wounding faba bean roots by high temperature, how maize roots climb up slopes, effect of cold on Medicago spp., effect of drought on soybeans, effect of active microbe species diversity in rhizosphere-plant interface on complex interactions on roots, allelochemicals, axial water flow, gravitropism, fine and coarse roots, salt-responsive mechanisms, transport in root cells, phototropism, hormones, nutrient acquasition, hydrotropism and many other important physiologic processes attracting a forage crops academician’s attention and interest were extracted from international studies and reviewed this article.

Keywords

Roots, forages, field crops, rhizosphere, tropism

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