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NSF-Transgressive Variation in Rice     
Collaborators
Name of collaborator:
Jonathan Lynch
Professor of Plant Nutrition
Pennsylvania State University
102 Tyson Building
University Park PA 16802
phone: 814-863-2256
website: http://roots.psu.edu/
email: jpl4@psu.edu
Project title:
Evaluation of root traits related to soil resource acquisition in crop plants
Traits being studied:
-Root hair length and density
-root cortical aerenchyma
-root tissue density (related to secondary wall development and tissue proportions)
-specific root length
-carboxylate exudates
-resource allocation among root classes
-phenology of root formation
-root cortical senescence
-seminal root whorls- number of seminal roots
-shoot born rooting- both mesocotyl and stem
-root gravitropic growth angles
-lateral branching
-plasticity of the above in response to nutrient and drought stress