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ReviewJournal of experimental botany2025

Root RADAR: how 'rhizocrine' signals allow roots to detect and respond to their soil environment and stresses.

Bipin K Pandey, Timothy S George, Hannah V Cooper, Craig J Sturrock, Tom Bennett, Malcolm J Bennett

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Review in Journal of experimental botany, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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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

3 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Bipin K PandeyPlant & Crop Sciences, School of Biosciences, University of Nottingham, Sutton Bonington LE12 5RD, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-9614-1347
Timothy S GeorgeThe James Hutton Institute, Invergowrie, Dundee DD2 5DA, UK.
Hannah V CooperPlant & Crop Sciences, School of Biosciences, University of Nottingham, Sutton Bonington LE12 5RD, UK.
Craig J SturrockPlant & Crop Sciences, School of Biosciences, University of Nottingham, Sutton Bonington LE12 5RD, UK.
Tom BennettSchool of Biology, Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK.ORCID 0000-0003-1612-4019
Malcolm J BennettPlant & Crop Sciences, School of Biosciences, University of Nottingham, Sutton Bonington LE12 5RD, UK.

Funding

101118769 BB/X001423/1Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) BB/T001437/1UKRI Frontiers Research EP/Y036697/1
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Agricultural intensification coupled with changing climate are causing soils to become increasingly vulnerable to stresses such as drought, soil erosion, and compaction. The mechanisms by which roots detect and respond to soil stresses remain poorly understood. Recent breakthroughs show that roots release volatile and soluble hormone signals into the surrounding soil, then monitor their levels to sense soil stresses. Our review discusses how hormones can act 'outside the plant' as 'rhizocrine' signals that function to improve plant resilience to different soil stresses. We also propose a novel signalling paradigm which we term 'root RADAR' where 'rhizocrine' levels change in soil in response to environmental stresses, feeding back to roots and triggering adaptive responses.

Indexed as

Plant Growth RegulatorsPlant RootsSignal TransductionSoilStress, PhysiologicalPlant Growth RegulatorsSoilEthyleneplant hormonerhizosphererootsoil stressstrigolactone

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PMID39707161
PMCPMC11981895

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