root_specific_root_area

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• Label: Root surface area per unit root dry mass (specific root area)
• Entity URI: https://w3id.org/APD/traits/trait_0012118
• Type: numeric
• Definition: A root morphology trait [TO:0000043] which is the ratio [PATO:0001470] of root [PO:0009005] surface area [EnvThes:21564] to root dry mass [TO:0000078].;The ratio of root surface area to root dry mass; specific root area.
• Additional comments: None
• units: mm2/mg
• allowable range: 0.001 - 1 mm2/mg

See the AusTraits Plant Dictionary (https://w3id.org/APD/traits/trait_0012118) for additional information about this trait.

Coverage

For this trait, AusTraits includes a total of 102 records. This includes:

• data for 75 species.
• data for 33 families.
• data from 1 datasets (see the portal Citations tab for a list of sources)