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Root Pressure: Getting to the Root of Pressure

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Progress in Botany 77

Part of the book series: Progress in Botany ((BOTANY,volume 77))

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Water and solutes are essential ingredients of root pressure. For root pressure to develop, the entry into root cells including xylem tissues of these ingredients is necessary. Therefore, in the light of latest research findings, the integrated synthesis of the combined “osmotic” and “energetically driven uphill water transport” in plants against water potential gradient and the gravity has been presented with the hope to halt or at least dilute for some time to come the prevalent legacy of “riddle” or “enigma” of root pressure. Further, various techniques, both invasive and noninvasive including new ones, have been described focusing on the factors affecting and consequences and implications of root pressure for agriculture, horticulture, and forestry.

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The author is highly delighted and most grateful to Prof. U. Luettge, Editor of Progress in Botany for having being invited by him to write this chapter. He also extends his most sincere thanks to him for the pains taking and critical reading of the manuscript and forwarding useful comments and constructive suggestions for the improvement of the text. At the local level, the author wishes to thank Prof. Fassil Kebede, Dean, College of Agriculture & Rural Transformation, and Mr. Tesfaye Wossen, Head, Department of Plant Sciences, for continued moral support during the write-up of this chapter.

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Singh, S. (2016). Root Pressure: Getting to the Root of Pressure. In: Lüttge, U., Cánovas, F., Matyssek, R. (eds) Progress in Botany 77. Progress in Botany, vol 77. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-25688-7_3

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