Root-Shoot Relations: Optimality in Acclimation and Adaptation or the “Emperor’s New Clothes”?

doi:10.1201/9780203909423-21

ABSTRACT

Abbreviations: LAR, leaf area ratio; LMF, leaf mass fraction; NAR, net assimilation rate (mol m−2 h−1); RGR, relative growth rate (d−1); RMF, root mass fraction; SLA, specific leaf area (cm2 g−1); SRL, specific root length (cm g−1).