Date of Award:

5-1966

Document Type:

Thesis

Degree Name:

Master of Science (MS)

Department:

Plants, Soils, and Climate

Department name when degree awarded

Botany

Committee Chair(s)

Herman H. Wiebe

Committee

Herman H. Wiebe

Abstract

Water movement in soils containing moisture below field capacity is extremely slow, thus requiring a continuous expansion of the plant root system to meet the transpiration demands placed on the plant (20, 21, 12, 19). It has been shown that internal moisture deficits result in reduced growth, and often death of the plant (22, 28, 25, 29, 34). Thus a healthy and continuously expanding root system may be necessary for good plant growth.

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