Aeroponics / Research
Soon after its development, the aeroponics established itself as a useful research instrument. It offered the scientists a noninvasive alternative to observe the roots during their development.
This new technology also made it possible for the scientists to increase the amount and diversity of the experimental parameters of their research.
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The possibility to precisely control the degree of humidity of the root area, as well as the administered amount of water, predestined the aeroponics for the research on water stress. K. Hubick rated the aeroponics as a medium to grow durable, minimal water stressed plants, which find utilization in drought- and flooding-experiments.
The aeroponics is the ideal instrument to examine for root-morphology. The missing of aggregates gives the scientist an easy access to the whole, intact, root structure, without the damage that can occur during the removal of the roots from soil or an aggregate. It was already mentioned that the aeroponics generates more normal root-systems than the hydroponics.
The possibility to precisely control the degree of humidity of the root area, as well as the administered amount of water, predestined the aeroponics for the research on water stress. K. Hubick rated the aeroponics as a medium to grow durable, minimal water stressed plants, which find utilization in drought- and flooding-experiments.
The aeroponics is the ideal instrument to examine for root-morphology. The missing of aggregates gives the scientist an easy access to the whole, intact, root structure, without the damage that can occur during the removal of the roots from soil or an aggregate. It was already mentioned that the aeroponics generates more normal root-systems than the hydroponics.