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Root to Shoot Ratio Question

Posted: Wed Jan 17, 2018 3:15 pm
by deleted-546435
Hi!
I'm doing a project testing the effects of the presence of ashes into soil as a way to provide the minerals and nutrients pinto beans need to grow and I got the idea from your website of measuring my plants' growth through the root to shoot ratio. Even though I've researched a lot, I have not yet fully understood the measurements that I have found that in theory my plants will have. In a paper that I found whilst researching, it stated that beans grown in P-deficient soil had 1.95:4.33 grams whilst those beans grown in soil with sufficient P resulted in 2.36:5.66 grams. I have not been able to find any video or website that can explain to me those numbers. Do you guys know how it works?
Thank you so much. :D

Re: Root to Shoot Ratio Question

Posted: Thu Jan 25, 2018 2:37 pm
by SciB
Hi,

It would help if you could post again with a link to the paper and a description of where you saw the numbers that you quoted. Then we can hopefully tel you what they mean.

Sybee