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Root hydraulic properties: An exploration of their variability across scales.
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- Nodulation does not alter root hydraulic conductance in pea.The New phytologist · 2026Article
- Hydraulic Signaling in Plants: From Physical Perturbation to Distributed Perception and Context-Dependent Decoding.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- Root anatomical gradients and cultivar differences underlie variation in root hydraulic properties in German winter wheat.Journal of experimental botany · 2026Article
- The Rapid Anatomics Tool (RAT): A low-cost root anatomical phenotyping platform reveals changes in root anatomy along the root axis.Plant phenomics (Washington, D.C.) · 2026Article
- Beyond efficiency: The multi-scale architecture of robust water transport in plants.Quantitative plant biology · 2026Review
- Root system architecture reorganization under decreasing soil phosphorus lowers root system conductance of Zea mays.Annals of botany · 2025Article
- Node of origin matters: comparative analysis of soil water limitation effects on nodal root anatomy in maize (Zea mays).Annals of botany · 2025Article
- Root mucilage enhances plant water use under combined soil and atmospheric drought.Annals of botany · 2025Article
- Effects of brackish water irrigation on biomass allocation and carbon, nitrogen stoichiometry in Lonicera japonica.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Field plants strategically regulate water uptake from different soil depths by spatiotemporally adjusting their radial root hydraulic conductivity.The New phytologist · 2025Article
- A century of winter wheat breeding decreases root hydraulic traits.Plant physiology · 2025Article
- Decreased root hydraulic traits in German winter wheat cultivars over 100 years of breeding.Plant physiology · 2025Article
- The root cortex of the Poaceae: a diverse, dynamic, and dispensable tissue.Plant and soil · 2025Review
- Role of xylem in root hydraulics: Functionality and implications for drought adaptation.Quantitative plant biology · 2025Review
- Roots to the rescue: how plants harness hydraulic redistribution to survive drought across contrasting soil textures.Advanced biotechnology · 2024Review
- Genetic variation in the aquaporin TONOPLAST INTRINSIC PROTEIN 4;3 modulates maize cold tolerance.Plant biotechnology journal · 2024Article
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Abstract
Root hydraulic properties are key physiological traits that determine the capacity of root systems to take up water, at a specific evaporative demand. They can strongly vary among species, cultivars or even within the same genotype, but a systematic analysis of their variation across plant functional types (PFTs) is still missing. Here, we reviewed published empirical studies on root hydraulic properties at the segment-, individual root-, or root system scale and determined its variability and the main factors contributing to it. This corresponded to a total of 241 published studies, comprising 213 species, including woody and herbaceous vegetation. We observed an extremely large range of variation (of orders of magnitude) in root hydraulic properties, but this was not caused by systematic differences among PFTs. Rather, the (combined) effect of factors such as root system age, driving force used for measurement, or stress treatments shaped the results. We found a significant decrease in root hydraulic properties under stress conditions (drought and aquaporin inhibition,
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