ArticlePlant physiology2016
X-Ray Computed Tomography Reveals the Response of Root System Architecture to Soil Texture.
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- Warm Temperature Increments Strengthen the Crosstalk between Roots and Soil in the Rhizosphere of Soybean Seedlings.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
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- Recent insights into metabolic and signalling events of directional root growth regulation and its implications for sustainable crop production systems.Frontiers in plant science · 2023Review
- Early detection of cotton verticillium wilt based on root magnetic resonance images.Frontiers in plant science · 2023Article
- The rhizodynamics robot: Automated imaging system for studying long-term dynamic root growth.PloS one · 2023Article
- Recent trends in root phenomics of plant systems with available methods- discrepancies and consonances.Physiology and molecular biology of plants : an international journal of functional plant biology · 2022Review
- A Review of Integrative Omic Approaches for Understanding Rice Salt Response Mechanisms.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Review
- Installation and imaging of thousands of minirhizotrons to phenotype root systems of field-grown plants.Plant methods · 2022Article
- The hidden half comes into the spotlight: Peeking inside the black box of root developmental phases.Plant communications · 2022Review
- Root Pulling Force Across Drought in Maize Reveals Genotype by Environment Interactions and Candidate Genes.Frontiers in plant science · 2022Article
- High-resolution 3D mapping of rhizosphere glycan patterning using molecular probes in a transparent soil system.Cell surface (Amsterdam, Netherlands) · 2021Article
- A starting guide to root ecology: strengthening ecological concepts and standardising root classification, sampling, processing and trait measurements.The New phytologist · 2021Review
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Abstract
Root system architecture (RSA) impacts plant fitness and crop yield by facilitating efficient nutrient and water uptake from the soil. A better understanding of the effects of soil on RSA could improve crop productivity by matching roots to their soil environment. We used x-ray computed tomography to perform a detailed three-dimensional quantification of changes in rice (Oryza sativa) RSA in response to the physical properties of a granular substrate. We characterized the RSA of eight rice cultivars in five different growth substrates and determined that RSA is the result of interactions between genotype and growth environment. We identified cultivar-specific changes in RSA in response to changing growth substrate texture. The cultivar Azucena exhibited low RSA plasticity in all growth substrates, whereas cultivar Bala root depth was a function of soil hardness. Our imaging techniques provide a framework to study RSA in different growth environments, the results of which can be used to improve root traits with agronomic potential.
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