Formation of the Root System of Corn under a Condition of Varying Soil Density

Abstract

This paper describes the effect of soil density variation on the formation of root system of corn in root boxes of transparent acrylic resin, and also discusses the influence of distribution of soil density and roots growth on soil moisture dessipation. A view point of developmental soil-plant complex system specializes the work. Varying soil density distribution resulted mixing patterns of root system which were formed by homogeneous high and low densities of soil. The distribution of root followed power low scaling. The dissipated water mass in the root box might be related to the root area in the zone of low density of soil but other parameters of plant growth such as height of plant, mass of roots. The root growth affected decreases of soil hardness.