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T Roose1, A C Fowler, P R Darrah.
Abstract
The classical model of plant root nutrient uptake due to Nye. Tinker and Barber is developed and extended. We provide an explicit closed formula for the uptake by a single cylindrical root for all cases of practical interest by solving the absorption-diffusion equation for the soil nutrient concentration asymptotically in the limit of large time. We then use this single root model as a building block to construct a model which allows for root size distribution in a more realistic plant root system, and we include the effects of root branching and growth. The results are compared with previous theoretical and experimental studies.Mesh：
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Year: 2001 PMID： 11374124 DOI： 10.1007/s002850000075
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Math Biol ISSN： 0303-6812 Impact factor: 2.259