Root taxa identification in plant mixtures – current techniques and future challenges

A PCR-based method for the identification of the roots of 10 co-occurring grassland species in mesocosm experiments

(2011) Gordon G. McNickle et al.   Botany

Comparative root anatomy of papilionoid Legumes

(2011) Sara Basconsuelo et al.   FLORA

Spatial patterns of plant diversity below-ground as revealed by DNA barcoding

(2011) PRASAD R. KESANAKURTI et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Direct measurement of roots in soil for single and mixed species using a quantitative DNA-based method

(2011) Rebecca E. Haling et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Influence of salinity on root hydraulic properties of three olive varieties

(2011) B. Rewald et al.   PLANT BIOSYSTEMS

The Roots of Diversity: Below Ground Species Richness and Rooting Distributions in a Tropical Forest Revealed by DNA Barcodes and Inverse Modeling

(2011) F. Andrew Jones et al.   PLoS One

Variations in above- and below-ground vascular plant biomass and water table on a temperate ombrotrophic peatland

(2010) M. T. Murphy et al.   Botany

Identifying roots of northern hardwood species: patterns with diameter and depth

(2010) Ruth D. Yanai et al.   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF FOREST RESEARCH

A molecular approach to quantify root community composition in a northern hardwood forest — testing effects of root species, relative abundance, and diameter

(2010) Melany C. Fisk et al.   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF FOREST RESEARCH

A minirhizotron imaging system to identify roots expressing the green fluorescent protein

(2010) Marc Faget et al.   COMPUTERS AND ELECTRONICS IN AGRICULTURE

Grassland root communities: species distributions and how they are linked to aboveground abundance

(2010) Douglas A. Frank et al.   ECOLOGY

Efficient discrimination of oat and pea roots by cluster analysis of Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectra

(2010) Annette Naumann et al.   FIELD CROPS RESEARCH

Using coloured roots to study root interaction and competition in intercropped legumes and non-legumes

(2010) G. Tosti et al.   Journal of Plant Ecology

Molecular identification of roots from a grassland community using size differences in fluorescently labelled PCR amplicons of three cpDNA regions

(2010) JOHN M. TAGGART et al.   Molecular Ecology Resources

Use of near-infrared reflectance spectroscopy to predict species composition in tree fine-root mixtures

(2010) Pifeng Lei et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Plants Integrate Information About Nutrients and Neighbors

(2010) J. F. Cahill et al.   SCIENCE

13C Discrimination: A Stable Isotope Method to Quantify Root Interactions between C3 Rice (Oryza sativa) and C4 Barnyardgrass (Echinochloa crus-galli) in Flooded Fields

(2010) David R. Gealy et al.   WEED SCIENCE

Root Growth and Recovery in Temperate Broad-Leaved Forest Stands Differing in Tree Species Diversity

(2009) Catharina Meinen et al.   ECOSYSTEMS

Belowground competition in a broad-leaved temperate mixed forest: pattern analysis and experiments in a four-species stand

(2009) Boris Rewald et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF FOREST RESEARCH

The use of green fluorescent protein as a tool to identify roots in mixed plant stands

(2009) Marc Faget et al.   FUNCTIONAL PLANT BIOLOGY

Underground ecology in a Patagonian steppe: Root traits permit identification of graminoid species and classification into functional types

(2009) P.E. Leva et al.   JOURNAL OF ARID ENVIRONMENTS

Biomass and morphology of fine roots in temperate broad-leaved forests differing in tree species diversity: is there evidence of below-ground overyielding?

(2009) Catharina Meinen et al.   OECOLOGIA

Quantification of roots and seeds in soil with real-time PCR

(2009) Ian T. Riley et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Plant DNA barcodes and a community phylogeny of a tropical forest dynamics plot in Panama

(2009) W. J. Kress et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A DNA barcode for land plants

(2009) et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Unravelling below-ground plant distributions: a real-time polymerase chain reaction method for quantifying species proportions in mixed root samples

(2008) L. MOMMER et al.   Molecular Ecology Resources

Multi-spectral imaging of rhizobox systems: New perspectives for the observation and discrimination of rhizosphere components

(2008) Alain Pierret   PLANT AND SOIL

Sequencing breakthroughs for genomic ecology and evolutionary biology

(2007) MATTHEW E. HUDSON   Molecular Ecology Resources