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ReviewFrontiers in plant science2016

Drought Stress Responses in Soybean Roots and Nodules.

Karl J Kunert, Barend J Vorster, Berhanu A Fenta, Tsholofelo Kibido, Giuseppe Dionisio, Christine H Foyer

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Review in Frontiers in plant science, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 62 papers.

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62citing papers in PubMed
28.8field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

62 citing papers in PubMed, 220 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 4 institutions in 4 countries.

Karl J KunertDepartment Plant Production and Soil Science, Forestry and Agricultural Biotechnology Institute, University of Pretoria Pretoria, South Africa.
Barend J VorsterDepartment Plant Production and Soil Science, Forestry and Agricultural Biotechnology Institute, University of Pretoria Pretoria, South Africa.
Berhanu A FentaMelkassa Agricultural Research Centre, Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural Research Adama, Ethiopia.
Tsholofelo KibidoDepartment Plant Production and Soil Science, Forestry and Agricultural Biotechnology Institute, University of Pretoria Pretoria, South Africa.
Giuseppe DionisioFaculty of Science and Technology, Research Centre Flakkebjerg, Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Aarhus University Aarhus, Denmark.
Christine H FoyerCentre for Plant Sciences, School of Biology, Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of Leeds Leeds, UK.
University of Pretoria · ZAAarhus University · DKEthiopian Institute of Agricultural Research · ETUniversity of Leeds · GB

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Drought is considered to be a major threat to soybean production worldwide and yet our current understanding of the effects of drought on soybean productively is largely based on studies on above-ground traits. Although the roots and root nodules are important sensors of drought, the responses of these crucial organs and their drought tolerance features remain poorly characterized. The symbiotic interaction between soybean and rhizobia facilitates atmospheric nitrogen fixation, a process that provides essential nitrogen to support plant growth and development. Symbiotic nitrogen fixation is important for sustainable agriculture, as it sustains plant growth on nitrogen-poor soils and limits fertilizer use for crop nitrogen nutrition. Recent developments have been made in our understanding of the drought impact on soybean root architecture and nodule traits, as well as underpinning transcriptome, proteome and also emerging metabolome information, with a view to improve the selection of more drought-tolerant soybean cultivars and rhizobia in the future. We conclude that the direct screening of root and nodule traits in the field as well as identification of genes, proteins and also metabolites involved in such traits will be essential in order to gain a better understanding of the regulation of root architecture, bacteroid development and lifespan in relation to drought tolerance in soybean.

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Glycine maxnodule traitsroot architecturesoybean omicswater stress

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PMID27462339
PMCPMC4941547
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