Seth Pritchard

College of Charleston

Projects

Elucidating the role of fine roots in transferring reduced C into soil using a combination of transcriptomics and 13C analyses of tissue from the Duke FACE experiment

Lead Institution

College of Charleston

Principal Investigator

Seth Pritchard

Project type

Large-Scale EMSL Research

Fine root turnover has been estimated to consume from 5 to >50% of forest productivity. The large range of uncertainty in these measurements is a consequence of a lack of understanding of what…