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Two-month-old cotton plants, growing in a rhizotron compartment filled with loamy fine sand surface soil, were subjected to an irrigation cycle. Estimates of rooting density, soil water content, soil water potential, water extraction per unit length of root, plant height, and leaf water potential were made throughout this cycle.
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Taylor et al. (1971) studied this question.
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