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Assessing water uptake in sugar beet (Beta vulgaris) under different watering regimes (2017)
Journal Article
Fitters, T. F., Bussell, J. S., Mooney, S. J., & Sparkes, D. L. (2017). Assessing water uptake in sugar beet (Beta vulgaris) under different watering regimes. Environmental and Experimental Botany, 144, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envexpbot.2017.10.001

Sugar beet yield worldwide is substantially reduced as a result of drought stress. Water uptake may be limited by the plant (e.g. low root density) or by soil physical constraints. An experiment was conducted to assess the ability of sugar beet to pr... Read More about Assessing water uptake in sugar beet (Beta vulgaris) under different watering regimes.

Quantification of seed-soil contact of sugar beet (Beta vulgaris) using X-ray Computed Tomography (2017)
Journal Article
Sparkes, D., Bussell, J., Blunk, S., Malik, A. H., de Heer, M. I., Ekblad, T., …Mooney, S. J. (2017). Quantification of seed-soil contact of sugar beet (Beta vulgaris) using X-ray Computed Tomography. Plant Methods, 13(1), https://doi.org/10.1186/s13007-017-0220-4

© 2017 The Author(s). Background: Seed-soil contact is important to ensure successful germination, however, there is a paucity of reported studies that have quantified the microstructure at and around this critical interface, mainly due to the opacit... Read More about Quantification of seed-soil contact of sugar beet (Beta vulgaris) using X-ray Computed Tomography.