Effect of soil drying on mucilage exudation and its water repellency: a new method to collect mucilage
2015 | journal article. A publication with affiliation to the University of Göttingen.
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Effect of soil drying on mucilage exudation and its water repellency: a new method to collect mucilage
Ahmed, M. A.; Holz, M.; Woche, S. K.; Bachmann, J. & Carminati, A. (2015)
Journal of Plant Nutrition and Soil Science, 178(6) pp. 821-824. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/jpln.201500177
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- Authors
- Ahmed, Mutez Ali; Holz, Maire; Woche, Susanne K.; Bachmann, Joerg; Carminati, Andrea
- Abstract
- Despite the importance of mucilage for soil-plant relations, little is known about the effect of soil drying on mucilage exudation. We introduce a method to collect mucilage from maize growing in wet and dry soils. Mucilage was collected from brace roots. The amount of mucilage exuded did not change with soil water content and transpiration rate. Mucilage exuded in dry soils had a higher degree of hydrophobicity, suggesting that the wetting properties of mucilage change in response to soil drying.
- Issue Date
- 2015
- Status
- published
- Publisher
- Wiley-v C H Verlag Gmbh
- Journal
- Journal of Plant Nutrition and Soil Science
- ISSN
- 1522-2624; 1436-8730
- Sponsor
- German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), Bonn, Germany