An experimental setup to investigate the effect of mycorrhizal fungi inoculation on plant water uptake in unsaturated soils
Roberts-Self, Eve and Tarantino, Alessandro (2023) An experimental setup to investigate the effect of mycorrhizal fungi inoculation on plant water uptake in unsaturated soils. E3S Web of Conferences, 382. 20004. ISSN 2555-0403 (https://doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/202338220004)
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Abstract
The use of vegetation as a Nature Based Solution, NBS, is increasingly being used for climate adaptation and resilience for engineered and natural slopes. As such it is important to understand the biological processes associated with vegetation and how they could be beneficially implemented. Due to the large repetition required when experimenting with biological components it is impossible to carry out experiments that are highly instrumented. This paper looks at mycorrhizal fungi as a method to improve plant water uptake and presents an experimental setup to allow for a low level of instrumentation in triplicate, with a few being well instrumented. Through benchmarking against TDR-probes, it was found that the method of monitoring soil water content changes in a mini-lysimeter with a loadcell provides a reliable and convenient approach to carry out experiments in three replicates at least.
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Roberts-Self, Eve and Tarantino, Alessandro ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6690-748X;-
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Item type: Article ID code: 85837 Dates: DateEvent24 April 2023Published21 October 2022AcceptedSubjects: Technology > Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General) > Environmental engineering Department: Faculty of Engineering > Civil and Environmental Engineering Depositing user: Pure Administrator Date deposited: 19 Jun 2023 14:23 Last modified: 08 Oct 2024 00:24 URI: https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/85837