ArticlePlant phenomics (Washington, D.C.)2020
An Analysis of Soil Coring Strategies to Estimate Root Depth in Maize (
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- Molecular and Genetic Regulation of Crop Root System Architecture in Drought Resilience.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- Non-Invasive Phenotyping of Sugar Beet and Maize Roots Using Field-Scale Spectral Electrical Impedance Tomography.Plant, cell & environment · 2025Article
- Root phenotypes for improved nitrogen capture.Plant and soil · 2024Review
- Effects of irrigation on root growth and development of soybean: A 3-year sandy field experiment.Frontiers in plant science · 2022Article
- Root system architecture and environmental flux analysis in mature crops using 3D root mesocosms.Frontiers in plant science · 2022Article
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Abstract
A soil coring protocol was developed to cooptimize the estimation of root length distribution (RLD) by depth and detection of functionally important variation in root system architecture (RSA) of maize and bean. The functional-structural model
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