ReviewJournal of experimental botany2015
Opportunities and challenges in the subsoil: pathways to deeper rooted crops.
Review in Journal of experimental botany, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 113 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
113 citing papers in PubMed, 417 citations in OpenAlex.
- Integrating soil imaging with spatial omics to uncover root-soil interactions.Plant communications · 2026Review
- Drivers and regional heterogeneity of cropland net ecosystem productivity across China's three major plains.Carbon balance and management · 2026Article
- Linking root length and surface area to yield: variety-specific root plasticity in winter wheat across contrasting European environments.Annals of botany · 2025Article
- Did crop domestication change the fitness landscape of root response to soil mechanical impedance? An in silico analysis.Annals of botany · 2025Article
- Root system ideotypes: what is the potential for breeding drought-tolerant grapevine rootstocks?Journal of experimental botany · 2025Review
- Soil depth determines the microbial communities inMicrobiology spectrum · 2025Article
- Article
- Article
- Human interventions have enhanced the net ecosystem productivity of farmland in China.Nature communications · 2024Article
- Article
- Response of Sorghum bicolor genotypes for yield and yield components and organic carbon storage in the shoot and root systems.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Understanding role of roots in plant response to drought: Way forward to climate-resilient crops.The plant genome · 2024Review
- Location: root architecture structures rhizosphere microbial associations.Journal of experimental botany · 2024Article
- Cover crop monocultures and mixtures enhance bacterial abundance and functionality in the maize root zone.ISME communications · 2024Article
- Root phenotypes for improved nitrogen capture.Plant and soil · 2024Review
- The crucial role of lateral root angle in enhancing drought resilience in cotton.Frontiers in plant science · 2024Article
- In Situ Root Dataset Expansion Strategy Based on an Improved CycleGAN Generator.Plant phenomics (Washington, D.C.) · 2024Article
- Screening key sorghum germplasms for low-nitrogen tolerance at the seedling stage and identifying from the carbon and nitrogen metabolism.Frontiers in plant science · 2024Article
- Large root cortical cells and reduced cortical cell files improve growth under suboptimal nitrogen in silico.Plant physiology · 2023Article
- Functional Dissection of the Physiological Traits Promoting Durum Wheat (Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
53 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
2 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Greater exploitation of subsoil resources by annual crops would afford multiple benefits, including greater water and N acquisition in most agroecosystems, and greater sequestration of atmospheric C. Constraints to root growth in the subsoil include soil acidity (an edaphic stress complex consisting of toxic levels of Al, inadequate levels of P and Ca, and often toxic levels of Mn), soil compaction, hypoxia, and suboptimal temperature. Multiple root phenes under genetic control are associated with adaptation to these constraints, opening up the possibility of breeding annual crops with root traits improving subsoil exploration. Adaptation to Al toxicity, hypoxia, and P deficiency are intensively researched, adaptation to soil hardness and suboptimal temperature less so, and adaptations to Ca deficiency and Mn toxicity are poorly understood. The utility of specific phene states may vary among soil taxa and management scenarios, interactions which in general are poorly understood. These traits and issues merit research because of their potential value in developing more productive, sustainable, benign, and resilient agricultural systems.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.