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	Mapping the vertical distribution of maize roots in China in relation to climate and soil texture
	Wang Sheng; Huang Yao; Sun Wenjuan; Yu Lingfei
来源期刊	Journal of Plant Ecology
ISSN	1752-9921
出版年	2018
卷号	11 期号:6 页码:899-908
英文摘要	Aims Optimizing water and fertilizer management for crops requires an understanding of root distribution.Maize (Zea mays L.) is currently the most widely planted cereal crop in China,yet the vertical distribution of maize roots across different regions remains unknown.The aims of this work were (i) to quantify the effects of climate and soil texture on the vertical distribution of maize roots,and (ii) to show the depth distribution of root biomass in China.Methods We used data of maize root biomass from 11 Chinese ecological stations with discontinuous observations from 2004 to 2014 to fit the regression coefficient beta for an asymptotic equation Y=1 - betad,where d is the soil depth and Y is the proportion of root biomass from the surface to depth d.A statistical model was then developed to quantify the effects of climate and soil texture on the fitted beta values.Using the statistical model,we map the depth distribution of maize root biomass in China.Important Findings Maize root biomass in the 0-100 cm soil depth varied by an order of magnitude at different stations,from 64 to 268 g m-2.Maize planted in sandy soils and/or maize with high accumulated temperature for development had higher root biomass and deeper rooting systems.The fitted beta values ranged from 0.785 to 0.977,which can be modeled by an integration of the accumulated temperature during the maize growing period and the soil clay and sand fractions (R2=0.66,n=50,P <0.001).Up to 82% of maize planting regions in China showed shallower rooting systems where more than 90% and 95% of the root biomass occurred in the top 20 and 30 cm soil layers,respectively.Deeper rooting systems occurred in some temperate arid and temperate semi-arid regions,with less than 80% of the root biomass in the top 20 cm soil.Our findings highlighted the vertical distribution of maize roots,and underlined the spatial variability in the vertical distribution of roots across Chinas planting areas of maize.
英文关键词	accumulated temperature maize root soil texture statistical model vertical distribution
类型	Article
语种	英语
开放获取类型	Bronze
收录类别	CSCD
WOS研究方向	Life Sciences & Biomedicine - Other Topics
CSCD记录号	CSCD:6406987
资源类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/336055
作者单位	Wang Sheng, Institute of Botany,Chinese Academy of Sciences;;University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, State Key Laboratory of Vegetation and Environmental Change;;, ;;, Beijing;;Beijing 100093;;100049.; Huang Yao, Institute of Botany,Chinese Academy of Sciences;;University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, State Key Laboratory of Vegetation and Environmental Change;;, ;;, Beijing;;Beijing 100093;;100049.; Sun Wenjuan, Institute of Botany,Chinese Academy of Sciences, State Key Laboratory of Vegetation and Environmental Change, Beijing 100093, China.; Yu Lingfei, Institute of Botany,Chinese Academy of Sciences, State Key Laboratory of Vegetation and Environmental Change, Beijing 100093, China.
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Wang Sheng,Huang Yao,Sun Wenjuan,et al. Mapping the vertical distribution of maize roots in China in relation to climate and soil texture[J],2018,11(6):899-908.
APA	Wang Sheng,Huang Yao,Sun Wenjuan,&Yu Lingfei.(2018).Mapping the vertical distribution of maize roots in China in relation to climate and soil texture.Journal of Plant Ecology,11(6),899-908.
MLA	Wang Sheng,et al."Mapping the vertical distribution of maize roots in China in relation to climate and soil texture".Journal of Plant Ecology 11.6(2018):899-908.