Table 1.

Examples from the Literature Showing the Ranges of Seedling Root Growth Rates and LR Densities Reported in the Col-0 Accession of Arabidopsis

Plant Age	Parameters and Their Values	Reference
	Root Growth Rate (μm h−1)
6 to 11 d old, average	448	Ditengou et al. (2008), Supplemental Table 1
10 d old	445	Beemster and Baskin (1998), Figure 2
11 d old	375	Armengaud et al. (2009), Supplemental Table 2
8 d old	∼320	Al-Ghazi et al. (2003), Figure 4A
6 d old	241	Beemster and Baskin (1998), Figure 2
8 d old	170	Zhou et al. (2010), Figure 1B
13 d old	80	Yazdanbakhsh and Fisahn (2010), Figure 6C
	LR Density (LR mm−1), Based on Total Root Length
6 d old	∼0.02	Sanz et al. (2011), Figure 3B
12 d old	∼0.09	Pelagio-Flores et al. (2011), Figure 13
12 d old	∼0.1	Kapulnik et al. (2011), Figure 1B
12 d old	0.16	Fukaki et al. (2006), Figure 6B
12 to 14 d old	0.1–0.2	Swarup et al. (2008), Supplemental Figures 1C, S2D, S3I
Not reported	∼0.2	De Smet et al. (2008), Figure 2C
10 d old	0.3	Nodzon et al. (2004), Figure 8
10 d old	0.27	De Smet et al. (2007), Table 2
10 d old	∼0.35	De Rybel et al. (2010), Figure 3A
13 d old	∼0.6	Marchant et al. (2002), Figure 1
11 d old	0.8	Coates et al. (2006), Figure 3B