Tree Root Systems and Their Mycorrhizas [Hardcover]

Proceedings of a Meeting of the IUFRO, Working Party on Root Physiology and SymbiosisResearching the potential of forest tree mycorrhizae.- Fine roots and sheathing mycorrhizas: their formation, function and dynamics.- The growth, activity and distribution of the fruit tree root system.- Root development and configuration in intensively managed radiata pine plantations.- Effects of N fertilisation on populations of fine roots and mycorrhizas in spruce humus.- Seasonal variation of growth and development of the roots of five second-year conifer species in the nursery.- Root distribution of four Vitis cultivars.- Root turnover and productivity of coniferous forests.- The distribution and productivity of fine roots in boreal forests.- Root development and plantation establishment success.- Root growth capacity: relationship with field root growth and performance in outplanted jack pine and black spruce.- Effect of restricted watering and its combination with root pruning on root growth capacity, water status and foot reserves of Pinus caribaea var. hondurensis seedlings.- Morphogenesis of root systems of seedlings and cuttings of Quercus robur L..- Some aspects of the development of the endodermis and cortex of Tilia cordata and Picea sitchensis.- When is the structural root system determined in Sitka spruce?.- Differences between stem and root thickening at their junction in red pine.- The development of root systems analysed by growth rings.- Root architecture and tree stability.- Modelling root structure and stability.- The physiology of vesicular-arbuscular mycorrhizal roots.- Role of the host-arbuscule interface in the VA mycorrhizal symbiosis: ultracytological studies of processes involved in phosphate and carbohydrate exchange.- Studies of VA mycorrhizae in vitro: mycorrhizal synthesis of axenically propagated wild cherry (Prunus avium L.) plants.- The development of vesicular-arbuscular mycorrhizal infection in plant root systems.- The concept of succession inlcJ