Soil- Water- Root Processes: Advances in Tomography and Imaging [Hardcover]

Rapid advances in tomography and imaging techniques and their successful application in soil and plant science are changing our sciences today. Many more articles using imaging and tomography are being published currently compared to 20 years ago. SoilWaterRoot Processes: Advances in Tomography and Imaging is a unique assemblage of contributions exploring applications of imaging and tomography systems in soil scienceit provides an updated collection of X-ray computed tomography, synchrotron microtomography, neutron imaging, magnetic resonance imaging, geophysical imaging tools, and other tomography techniques for evaluating soils and roots. Exciting new procedures and applications have been developed, with the promise to propel forward our understanding of soil and plant properties and processes.Foreword | vii

Preface | ix

Contributors | xi

Chapter 1 | 1
Using Synchrotron-Based X-Ray Microtomography and Functional Contrast Agents in Environmental Applications
Dorthe Wildenschild, Mark L. Rivers, Mark L. Porter, Gabriel C. Iltis, Ryan T. Armstrong, and Yohan Davit

Chapter 2 | 23
Tomographic Investigations Relevant to the Rhizosphere
Keith W. Jones, Jun Wang, Yu-chen Chen, Qingxi Yuan, W. Brent Lindquist, Lauren Beckingham, Catherine A. Peters, Wooyong Um, Lee Newman, Tara Sabo-Attwood, and Ryan Tappero

Chapter 3 | 39
Synchrotron X-Ray MicrotomographyNew Means to Quantify Root Induced Changes of Rhizosphere Physical Properties
Jazm?n E. Aravena, Markus Berli, Manoj Menon, Teamrat A. Ghezzehei, Ajay K. Mandava, Emma E. Regentova, Natarajan S. Pillai, John Steude, Michael H. Young, Peter S. Nico, and Scott W. Tyler

Chapter 4 | 69
Effects of Root-Induced Biopores on Pore Space Architecture Investigated with Industrial X-Ray Colc7