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ROOTS AND SHOOTS TO SOIL MECHANICAL IMPEDANCE AND AERATION presented by GHOLAM HOSSEIN ASADY has been accepted towards fulfillment of the requirements for Ph.D. Crop and Soil Sciences degree in CI M rofessor Date W/d’g 571/?ng MS U is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Institution 0-12771 MSU LIBRARIES m . RETURNING MATERIALS: Place in book drop to remove this checkout from your record. FINES will be charged if book is returned after the date stamped below. {3.530 6 1995 9.3-:- ‘G: S??? MODELING SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL RESPONSES OF PHASEOLUS VULGARIS, L. ROOTS AND SHOOTS TO SOIL MECHANICAL IMPEDANCE AND AERATION BY Gholam Hosaein Asady A DISSERTATION ‘ Submitted to Michigan State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY Department of Crop and Soil Sciences 1986 ABSTRACT MODELING SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL RESPONSES OF PHASEOLUS VULGARIS, L. ROOTS AND SHOOTS TO SOIL MECHANICAL IMPEDANCE AND AERATION BY Gholam Hossein Asady Understanding the spatial and temporal responses of plant cultivars to the dynamically changing soil environments is important for the development of a comprehensive plant and soil production system. The purpose of this study was to obtain experimental information regarding plant root responses to a mechanically impeding clay soil and put those results into a model. A soil core seedling test was developed which could be used as a fast and inexpensive method of studying root responses to multiple levels of mechanical impedance and aeration under a constant soil water potential. Root peneration ratios.(RPR) were measured 14 days after planting (DAP) without destroying seedling viability. RPR and root lengths declined linearly with decreasing air filled porosity. The maxinunn dry matter accumulations and yields occurred at RPR values of approximately 0.65. The xylem flow rates of plants grown in high bulk density soils were also reduced to values as low as 5 n1. 3'1. Transpiration and photosynthetic rates were inversely and diffusive resistance was directly correlated to mechanical impedance, respectively. Gholam Hossein Asady Severe mechanical impedance reduced total root length by approximately 80 and 7&5 after 20 and 30 days of growth, respectively. The average root length density was reduced to less than 1 cm cm'3 in high density soils. Extension of the roots into deeper layers was greatly reduced by severe mechanical impedance. Approximately 901 of the roots grown in severely compacted treatment remained in the surface 2.5 cm compared to 15$ in the control, at 20 DAP. Greater pathway resistances of the soil pores appeared to influence the reduced oxygen and increased carbon dioxide concentrations of the soil more than the reduced aeration treatments of this study. In addition, nearly 121 of the air filled pores in the surface layers of the compacted soil were plugged by the roots, at 30 DAP, further contributing to greater pathway resistances. A model of shoot growth is proposed which includes the dynamic relative growth rate and biological growth capacity of the environment. A model of root growth and water uptake was modified which includes soil mechanical impedance. This modified, PHASOL model dynamically calculates the mechanical resistance, aeration porosity, and root growth responses in different soil layers. Penetration of the roots completely ceased as the mechanical resistance approached a critical value of 5.5 MPa. Predicted root and shoot growth, leaf water potential, and cumulative water use responses of dry edible beans were parallel to experimental data, for a 20 day period of simulated growth. To My new-born daughter Beeta whose arrival gave my life a new dimension ii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I would like to express my sincere gratitude to my major professor, Dr. AuLM. Smucker for his guidance, help, and constructive criticisms. I am specially indebted to him for his continuous concern, encouragement, and stimulus during the critical periods of my education at M.S.U. Special appreciation is extended to the other members of my graduate program committee, Drs. Robert 0. Barr from Electrical Engineering and System Sciences, Charles Cress, Bernard Knezek, and Raymond J. Kunze from Crop and Soil Sciences. Their contributions to the successful completion of this study is greatly acknowledged. I would like to thank Dr. MdL.Huck for sending me a copy of his model and many correspondences and conversations without which the modeling task would have been more difficult. I would also like to thank Dr. S.G. Wellso, and Mr. Robert P. Roxie of USDA for allowing me to use their microcomputer. Genereous assistance given to me by Bob enabled me to effeciently use the wordprocessor which has been greatly appreciated. Special acknowledgement is given to the following individuals who have provided me with either advice or equipment during the course of this study. Dr. A.E. Erickson's advice and supply of platinum for making microelectrodes is much appreciated. Thanks are due to Dr. J.M. Tiedje for the use of his gas chromatographic equipment. I would like to thank Dr. SAL Gupta from the University of Minnesota for measuring iii iv the penetrometer resistance in some of my soil samples. Dr. Tom Hodges from the University of Missouri provided me with a weather simulator. His intertest and advice is fully appreciated. Advice given to me by Dr. J.T. Ritchie on some of the problems encountered when testing the model is appreciated. Thanks are due to Mr. Dallas Hyde manager of the soil research farm who has been very helpful to me over the years. Financial support of the Michigan Dry Edible Bean Research Advisory Board and Isfahan University of Technology