Determining the effects of nitrogen rate on cotton root growth and distribution with soil cores and minirhizotrons

• Jing Chen ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Jing Chen, Liantao Liu, Zhanbiao Wang

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Agronomy, Agricultural University of Hebei / State Key Laboratory of Cotton Biology (Hebei Base) - Laboratory of Crop Growth Regulation, Baoding, Hebei Province, China, Institute of Cotton Research of Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Anyang, Henan Province, China

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0644-5871

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• Liantao Liu ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Jing Chen, Liantao Liu, Zhanbiao Wang

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Software, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Agronomy, Agricultural University of Hebei / State Key Laboratory of Cotton Biology (Hebei Base) - Laboratory of Crop Growth Regulation, Baoding, Hebei Province, China

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• Zhanbiao Wang ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Jing Chen, Liantao Liu, Zhanbiao Wang

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Software, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Agronomy, Agricultural University of Hebei / State Key Laboratory of Cotton Biology (Hebei Base) - Laboratory of Crop Growth Regulation, Baoding, Hebei Province, China, Institute of Cotton Research of Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Anyang, Henan Province, China

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• Hongchun Sun,

  Roles Data curation, Supervision

  Affiliation Department of Agronomy, Agricultural University of Hebei / State Key Laboratory of Cotton Biology (Hebei Base) - Laboratory of Crop Growth Regulation, Baoding, Hebei Province, China

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• Yongjiang Zhang,

  Roles Project administration, Supervision

  Affiliation Department of Agronomy, Agricultural University of Hebei / State Key Laboratory of Cotton Biology (Hebei Base) - Laboratory of Crop Growth Regulation, Baoding, Hebei Province, China

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• Zhanyuan Lu,

  Roles Project administration, Supervision

  Affiliations Department of Agronomy, Agricultural University of Hebei / State Key Laboratory of Cotton Biology (Hebei Base) - Laboratory of Crop Growth Regulation, Baoding, Hebei Province, China, Inner Mongolia Academy of Agricultural & Animal Husbandry Sciences, Huhhot, Inner Mongolia, China

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• Cundong Li

  Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision

  * E-mail: auhlcd@163.com

  Affiliation Department of Agronomy, Agricultural University of Hebei / State Key Laboratory of Cotton Biology (Hebei Base) - Laboratory of Crop Growth Regulation, Baoding, Hebei Province, China

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