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Technical note: Investigating saline water uptake by roots using spectral induced polarization
Solomon Ehosioke
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Urban and Environmental Engineering, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium
Land, Air and Water Resources, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, USA
Sarah Garré
Fisheries and Food, Flanders Research Institute for Agriculture, Melle, Belgium
Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech, University of Liège, Gembloux, Belgium
Johan Alexander Huisman
Agrosphere (IBG-3), Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Jülich, Germany
Egon Zimmermann
Electronic Systems (ZEA-2), Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Jülich, Germany
Mathieu Javaux
Agrosphere (IBG-3), Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Jülich, Germany
Earth and Life Institute, Environmental Science, UCLouvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
Frédéric Nguyen
Urban and Environmental Engineering, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium
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Thomas Hermans, Pascal Goderniaux, Damien Jougnot, Jan H. Fleckenstein, Philip Brunner, Frédéric Nguyen, Niklas Linde, Johan Alexander Huisman, Olivier Bour, Jorge Lopez Alvis, Richard Hoffmann, Andrea Palacios, Anne-Karin Cooke, Álvaro Pardo-Álvarez, Lara Blazevic, Behzad Pouladi, Peleg Haruzi, Alejandro Fernandez Visentini, Guilherme E. H. Nogueira, Joel Tirado-Conde, Majken C. Looms, Meruyert Kenshilikova, Philippe Davy, and Tanguy Le Borgne
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Understanding the electromagnetic properties of plant roots is useful to quantify plant properties and monitor plant physiological responses to changing environmental factors. We investigated the electrical properties of the primary roots of Brachypodium and maize plants during the uptake of fresh and saline water using spectral induced polarization. Our results indicate that salinity tolerance varies with the species and that Maize is more tolerant to salinity than Brachypodium.
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