Modern wheat semi-dwarfs root deep on demand: response of rooting depth to drought in a set of Swiss era wheats covering 100 years of breeding

Crop water use under Swiss pedoclimatic conditions – Evaluation of lysimeter data covering a seven-year period

(2017) Simon Oberholzer et al.   FIELD CROPS RESEARCH

Limited-irrigation improves water use efficiency and soil reservoir capacity through regulating root and canopy growth of winter wheat

(2016) Cailong Xu et al.   FIELD CROPS RESEARCH

Changes in durum wheat root and aerial biomass caused by the introduction of the Rht-B1b dwarfing allele and their effects on yield formation

(2016) Joan Subira et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Five decades of selection for yield reduced root length density and increased nitrogen uptake per unit root length in Australian wheat varieties

(2016) Moyassar M. Aziz et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Interactive effect of water and nitrogen regimes on plant growth, root traits and water status of old and modern durum wheat genotypes

(2016) Abdelhalim Elazab et al.   PLANTA

Wheat Sown with Narrow Spacing Results in Higher Yield and Water Use Efficiency under Deficit Supplemental Irrigation at the Vegetative and Reproductive Stage

(2016) Mubshar Hussain et al.   Agronomy-Basel

Soil water capture trends over 50 years of single-cross maize (Zea maysL.) breeding in the US corn-belt

(2015) Andres Reyes et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

Using tube rhizotrons to measure variation in depth penetration rate among modern North-European winter wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) cultivars

(2014) N. K. Ytting et al.   EUPHYTICA

Soil coring at multiple field environments can directly quantify variation in deep root traits to select wheat genotypes for breeding

(2014) A. P. Wasson et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

Spatial and temporal trends in agro-climatic limitations to production potentials for grain maize and winter wheat in Switzerland

(2014) Annelie Holzkämper et al.   Regional Environmental Change

Quantifying relationships between rooting traits and water uptake under drought in Mediterranean barley and durum wheat

(2013) Pedro Carvalho et al.   Journal of Integrative Plant Biology

Early vertical distribution of roots and its association with drought tolerance in tropical maize

(2013) C. Grieder et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

The effects of domestication on the scaling of below- vs. aboveground biomass in four selected wheat (Triticum; Poaceae) genotypes

(2012) X. Qin et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

Pot size matters: a meta-analysis of the effects of rooting volume on plant growth

(2012) Hendrik Poorter et al.   FUNCTIONAL PLANT BIOLOGY

Traits and selection strategies to improve root systems and water uptake in water-limited wheat crops

(2012) A. P. Wasson et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

Association of root water-uptake ability with drought adaptation in wheat

(2011) M. Mori et al.   CEREAL RESEARCH COMMUNICATIONS

Why are wheat yields stagnating in Europe? A comprehensive data analysis for France

(2010) Nadine Brisson et al.   FIELD CROPS RESEARCH

Breeding Technologies to Increase Crop Production in a Changing World

(2010) M. Tester et al.   SCIENCE

The effects of dwarfing genes on seedling root growth of wheat

(2009) T. Wojciechowski et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

Developmental and physiological traits associated with high yield and stay-green phenotype in wheat

(2008) J. T. Christopher et al.  

Rooting depth and water use efficiency of tropical maize inbred lines, differing in drought tolerance

(2008) Andreas Hund et al.   PLANT AND SOIL