Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The area of soil that surrounds and is affected by the roots of plants.
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- noun soil science the
soil region subject to theinfluence ofplant roots and their associatedmicroorganisms
Etymologies
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Examples
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It's some kind of weird genius. dale hello mr.fabio. have you ever heard a richard pinhas album called 'rhizosphere'? mid
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Their roots ride the underground "rhizosphere" and engage in cross-cultural and microbial trade.
NYT > Home Page 2009
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Although these rhizosphere bacteria are a relatively small component of the belowground microbial biomass, they are likely to be particularly responsive to environmentally induced changes in belowground plant C flow.
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In the fall, nutrients are shunted from the leaves and culms down to the rhizosphere for winter storage.
Phragmites australis - cryptic invasion of the Common Reed in North America 2009
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Higher CO2 concentrations tend to intensify root exudation, which is the main source of available carbon for soil and rhizosphere bacteria.
Phenotypic responses of arctic species to changes in climate and ultraviolet-B radiation 2009
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Sedges have important effects on many ecosystem processes, including methane flux, because of their transport of oxygen to soils, transport of methane to the atmosphere, and inputs of labile carbon to the rhizosphere [22].
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Higher CO2 concentrations tend to intensify root exudation, which is the main source of available carbon for soil and rhizosphere bacteria.
Phenotypic responses of arctic species to changes in climate and ultraviolet-B radiation 2009
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Like bacteriocin from a rhizosphere-colonizing plant, I would have said, just googling for an amusing possibility.
"Republicans are out to crush Barack by painting him as a leftwinger..." Ann Althouse 2008
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Plant utilization of N2 is entirely dependent on the rhizosphere and the symbiotic constituent micro flora.
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That would be dependent on the soil rhizosphere and mycorrhizae,utilisation would be dependent on the soils.
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