ArticleAnnals of botany2013
Matching roots to their environment.
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- Seeing the unseen: A novel approach to extract latent plant root traits from digital images.Plant phenomics (Washington, D.C.) · 2025Article
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- Nutrient Uptake Potential of Nonleguminous Species and Its Interaction with Soil Characteristics and Enzyme Activities in the Agro-ecosystem.ACS omega · 2024Article
- A Field-to-Parameter Pipeline for Analyzing and Simulating Root System Architecture of Woody Perennials: Application to Grapevine Rootstocks.Plant phenomics (Washington, D.C.) · 2024Article
- Comparative physiological and transcriptomic analysis of two salt-tolerant soybean germplasms response to low phosphorus stress: role of phosphorus uptake and antioxidant capacity.BMC plant biology · 2023Article
- Phosphorus partitioning contribute to phosphorus use efficiency during grain filling inFrontiers in plant science · 2023Article
- Towards grapevine root architectural models to adapt viticulture to drought.Frontiers in plant science · 2023Article
- Topological data analysis expands the genotype to phenotype map for 3D maize root system architecture.Frontiers in plant science · 2023Article
- Shift in beneficial interactions during crop evolution.Evolutionary applications · 2022Review
- Phenotypes and environment predict seedling survival for seven co-occurring Great Basin plant taxa growing with invasive grass.Ecology and evolution · 2022Article
- Variation in mycorrhizal growth response among a spring wheat mapping population shows potential to breed for symbiotic benefit.Food and energy security · 2022Article
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Abstract
backgroundPlants form the base of the terrestrial food chain and provide medicines, fuel, fibre and industrial materials to humans. Vascular land plants rely on their roots to acquire the water and mineral elements necessary for their survival in nature or their yield and nutritional quality in agriculture. Major biogeochemical fluxes of all elements occur through plant roots, and the roots of agricultural crops have a significant role to play in soil sustainability, carbon sequestration, reducing emissions of greenhouse gasses, and in preventing the eutrophication of water bodies associated with the application of mineral fertilizers. SCOPE: This article provides the context for a Special Issue of Annals of Botany on 'Matching Roots to Their Environment'. It first examines how land plants and their roots evolved, describes how the ecology of roots and their rhizospheres contributes to the acquisition of soil resources, and discusses the influence of plant roots on biogeochemical cycles. It then describes the role of roots in overcoming the constraints to crop production imposed by hostile or infertile soils, illustrates root phenotypes that improve the acquisition of mineral elements and water, and discusses high-throughput methods to screen for these traits in the laboratory, glasshouse and field. Finally, it considers whether knowledge of adaptations improving the acquisition of resources in natural environments can be used to develop root systems for sustainable agriculture in the future.
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