Optimal root proliferation strategies: the roles of nutrient heterogeneity, competition and mycorrhizal networks

The arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus Glomus hoi can capture and transfer nitrogen from organic patches to its associated host plant at low temperature

(2011) G. Barrett et al.   APPLIED SOIL ECOLOGY

Growth and symbiotic effectiveness of an arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus in organic matter in competition with soil bacteria

(2011) Joanne Leigh et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY ECOLOGY

Order of plant host establishment alters the composition of arbuscular mycorrhizal communities

(2010) Natasha Teutsch Hausmann et al.   ECOLOGY

Root growth models: towards a new generation of continuous approaches

(2010) Lionel Dupuy et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

Evolutionary optimality in stochastic search problems

(2010) M. D. Preston et al.   Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Kin recognition, not competitive interactions, predicts root allocation in young Cakile edentula seedling pairs

(2010) Mudra V. Bhatt et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

The Effects of Nutrient Dynamics on Root Patch Choice

(2010) Hagai Shemesh et al.   PLoS One

Substantial nitrogen acquisition by arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi from organic material has implications for N cycling

(2010) A. Hodge et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Plants Integrate Information About Nutrients and Neighbors

(2010) J. F. Cahill et al.   SCIENCE

Kin recognition: Competition and cooperation in Impatiens (Balsaminaceae)

(2009) Guillermo P. Murphy et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

Efficient or Inaccurate? Analytical and Numerical Modelling of Random Search Strategies

(2009) Alex James et al.   BULLETIN OF MATHEMATICAL BIOLOGY

Functional–structural plant modelling: a new versatile tool in crop science

(2009) J. Vos et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

Competitive ability not kinship affects growth of Arabidopsis thaliana accessions

(2009) Frédéric Masclaux et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

More than a carbon economy: nutrient trade and ecological sustainability in facultative arbuscular mycorrhizal symbioses

(2009) F. Andrew Smith et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Plant root growth, architecture and function

(2009) Angela Hodge et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Rhizosphere: biophysics, biogeochemistry and ecological relevance

(2009) Philippe Hinsinger et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Carbon flow in the rhizosphere: carbon trading at the soil–root interface

(2009) D. L. Jones et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

A modular concept of plant foraging behaviour: the interplay between local responses and systemic control

(2009) HANS DE KROON et al.   PLANT CELL AND ENVIRONMENT

Growing with siblings: a common ground for cooperation or for fiercer competition among plants?

(2009) R. Milla et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi can transfer substantial amounts of nitrogen to their host plant from organic material

(2008) Joanne Leigh et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Root decisions

(2008) ANGELA HODGE   PLANT CELL AND ENVIRONMENT

Individualism in plant populations: Using stochastic differential equations to model individual neighbourhood-dependent plant growth

(2008) Qiming Lv et al.   THEORETICAL POPULATION BIOLOGY