Matching roots to their environment

Response of millet and sorghum to a varying water supply around the primary and nodal roots

(2013) M. Rostamza et al.   ANNALS OF BOTANY

Root cortical burden influences drought tolerance in maize

(2013) Raúl E. Jaramillo et al.   ANNALS OF BOTANY

Lateral root development in the maize (Zea mays) lateral rootless1 mutant

(2013) Eva Husakova et al.   ANNALS OF BOTANY

Can root electrical capacitance be used to predict root mass in soil?

(2013) R. C. Dietrich et al.   ANNALS OF BOTANY

Quantitative imaging of rhizosphere pH and CO2 dynamics with planar optodes

(2013) Stephan Blossfeld et al.   ANNALS OF BOTANY

Root–root interactions: extending our perspective to be more inclusive of the range of theories in ecology and agriculture using in-vivo analyses

(2013) Marc Faget et al.   ANNALS OF BOTANY

Determinate primary root growth as an adaptation to aridity in Cactaceae: towards an understanding of the evolution and genetic control of the trait

(2013) Svetlana Shishkova et al.   ANNALS OF BOTANY

Anatomical aspects of angiosperm root evolution

(2013) James L. Seago et al.   ANNALS OF BOTANY

Steep, cheap and deep: an ideotype to optimize water and N acquisition by maize root systems

(2013) Jonathan P. Lynch   ANNALS OF BOTANY

A rapid, controlled-environment seedling root screen for wheat correlates well with rooting depths at vegetative, but not reproductive, stages at two field sites

(2013) M. Watt et al.   ANNALS OF BOTANY

Improving potassium acquisition and utilisation by crop plants

(2013) Philip J. White   JOURNAL OF PLANT NUTRITION AND SOIL SCIENCE

Agroforestry in Europe: a review of the disappearance of traditional systems and development of modern agroforestry practices, with emphasis on experiences in Germany

(2012) K. Nerlich et al.   AGROFORESTRY SYSTEMS

Use of genotype × environment interactions to understand rooting depth and the ability of wheat to penetrate hard soils

(2012) Tina L. Botwright Acuña et al.   ANNALS OF BOTANY

Quantitative trait loci for seed yield and yield-related traits, and their responses to reduced phosphorus supply in Brassica napus

(2012) Guangda Ding et al.   ANNALS OF BOTANY

Root–shoot allometry of tropical forest trees determined in a large-scale aeroponic system

(2012) Amram Eshel et al.   ANNALS OF BOTANY

Soil strength and macropore volume limit root elongation rates in many UK agricultural soils

(2012) Tracy A. Valentine et al.   ANNALS OF BOTANY

Zinc uptake and radial transport in roots of Arabidopsis thaliana: a modelling approach to understand accumulation

(2012) Juliane Claus et al.   ANNALS OF BOTANY

Strigolactones activate different hormonal pathways for regulation of root development in response to phosphate growth conditions

(2012) Hinanit Koltai   ANNALS OF BOTANY

Enhancing phosphorus and zinc acquisition efficiency in rice: a critical review of root traits and their potential utility in rice breeding

(2012) T. J. Rose et al.   ANNALS OF BOTANY

Plasticity of rhizosphere hydraulic properties as a key for efficient utilization of scarce resources

(2012) Andrea Carminati et al.   ANNALS OF BOTANY

A conceptual model of root hair ideotypes for future agricultural environments: what combination of traits should be targeted to cope with limited P availability?

(2012) L. K. Brown et al.   ANNALS OF BOTANY

Complementarity in root architecture for nutrient uptake in ancient maize/bean and maize/bean/squash polycultures

(2012) Johannes A. Postma et al.   ANNALS OF BOTANY

High-throughput root phenotyping screens identify genetic loci associated with root architectural traits in Brassica napus under contrasting phosphate availabilities

(2012) Lei Shi et al.   ANNALS OF BOTANY

A paradigm shift towards low-nitrifying production systems: the role of biological nitrification inhibition (BNI)

(2012) G. V. Subbarao et al.   ANNALS OF BOTANY

Responses of root architecture development to low phosphorus availability: a review

(2012) Yao Fang Niu et al.   ANNALS OF BOTANY

GiA Roots: software for the high throughput analysis of plant root system architecture

(2012) Taras Galkovskyi et al.   BMC PLANT BIOLOGY

Soil tillage effects on the efficacy of cultivars and their mixtures in winter barley

(2012) A.C. Newton et al.   FIELD CROPS RESEARCH

Genotype×environment interactions for root depth of wheat

(2012) T.L. Botwright Acuña et al.   FIELD CROPS RESEARCH

GROWSCREEN-Rhizo is a novel phenotyping robot enabling simultaneous measurements of root and shoot growth for plants grown in soil-filled rhizotrons

(2012) Kerstin A. Nagel et al.   FUNCTIONAL PLANT BIOLOGY

Non-destructive quantification of cereal roots in soil using high-resolution X-ray tomography

(2012) R. J. Flavel et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

A new physical interpretation of plant root capacitance

(2012) R. C. Dietrich et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

The protein kinase Pstol1 from traditional rice confers tolerance of phosphorus deficiency

(2012) Rico Gamuyao et al.   NATURE

Closing yield gaps through nutrient and water management

(2012) Nathaniel D. Mueller et al.   NATURE

Patterns and processes in crop domestication: an historical review and quantitative analysis of 203 global food crops

(2012) Rachel S. Meyer et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Opportunities for improving phosphorus-use efficiency in crop plants

(2012) Erik J. Veneklaas et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Root system architecture: insights from Arabidopsis and cereal crops

(2012) S. Smith et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Morphological evolution in land plants: new designs with old genes

(2012) N. D. Pires et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

The role of biological nitrogen fixation by non-legumes in the sustainable production of food and biofuels

(2012) Euan K. James et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Nitrogen uptake by grassland communities: contribution of N2 fixation, facilitation, complementarity, and species dominance

(2012) Holger Bessler et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Electrical capacitance of bean (Vicia faba) root systems was related to tissue density—a test for the Dalton Model

(2012) Tim Ellis et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

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

(2012) Boris Rewald et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Nature and nurture: the importance of seed phosphorus content

(2012) Philip J. White et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Root-soil friction: quantification provides evidence for measurable benefits for manipulation of root-tip traits

(2012) BLAIR M. MCKENZIE et al.   PLANT CELL AND ENVIRONMENT

High-throughput two-dimensional root system phenotyping platform facilitates genetic analysis of root growth and development

(2012) RANDY T. CLARK et al.   PLANT CELL AND ENVIRONMENT

Strigolactones Are Involved in Root Response to Low Phosphate Conditions in Arabidopsis

(2012) E. Mayzlish-Gati et al.   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

A New Hammer to Crack an Old Nut: Interspecific Competitive Resource Capture by Plants Is Regulated by Nutrient Supply, Not Climate

(2012) Clare J. Trinder et al.   PLoS One

Transparent Soil for Imaging the Rhizosphere

(2012) Helen Downie et al.   PLoS One

Mapping QTLs for root system architecture of maize (Zea mays L.) in the field at different developmental stages

(2012) Hongguang Cai et al.   THEORETICAL AND APPLIED GENETICS

Patterns of root respiration rates and morphological traits in 13 tree species in a tropical forest

(2012) N. Makita et al.   TREE PHYSIOLOGY

Water Dynamics of the Root Zone: Rhizosphere Biophysics and Its Control on Soil Hydrology

(2012) A.G. Bengough   VADOSE ZONE JOURNAL

How to Overcome the Slow Death of Intercropping in the North China Plain

(2012) Til Feike et al.   Sustainability

Effective use of water by wheat varieties with different root system sizes in rain-fed experiments in Central Europe

(2011) Tomáš Středa et al.   AGRICULTURAL WATER MANAGEMENT

Agroecologically efficient agricultural systems for smallholder farmers: contributions to food sovereignty

(2011) Miguel A. Altieri et al.   Agronomy for Sustainable Development

Breeding crop plants with deep roots: their role in sustainable carbon, nutrient and water sequestration

(2011) D. B. Kell   ANNALS OF BOTANY

Signaling Network in Sensing Phosphate Availability in Plants

(2011) Tzyy-Jen Chiou et al.   Annual Review of Plant Biology

The Influence of Plant Root Systems on Subsurface Flow: Implications for Slope Stability

(2011) Murielle Ghestem et al.   BIOSCIENCE

From lab to field, new approaches to phenotyping root system architecture

(2011) Jinming Zhu et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN PLANT BIOLOGY

Root growth of maize in an Italian ryegrass living mulch studied with a non-destructive method

(2011) Marc Faget et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF AGRONOMY

Analysis of improvements in nitrogen use efficiency associated with 75 years of spring barley breeding

(2011) I.J. Bingham et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF AGRONOMY

Fertiliser availability in a resource-limited world: Production and recycling of nitrogen and phosphorus

(2011) C.J. Dawson et al.   FOOD POLICY

Non-invasive approaches for phenotyping of enhanced performance traits in bean

(2011) Uwe Rascher et al.   FUNCTIONAL PLANT BIOLOGY

TRY - a global database of plant traits

(2011) J. KATTGE et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Genomic resources for improving food legume crops

(2011) J. KUMAR et al.   JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCE

Species- and community-level patterns in fine root traits along a 120 000-year soil chronosequence in temperate rain forest

(2011) Robert J. Holdaway et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Root responses to nutrients and soil biota: drivers of species coexistence and ecosystem productivity

(2011) Hans de Kroon et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Major quantitative trait loci for seminal root morphology of wheat seedlings

(2011) Yongzhe Ren et al.   MOLECULAR BREEDING

Legume-Nodulating Betaproteobacteria: Diversity, Host Range, and Future Prospects

(2011) Prasad Gyaneshwar et al.   MOLECULAR PLANT-MICROBE INTERACTIONS

A consensus map of QTLs controlling the root length of maize

(2011) Andreas Hund et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Evidence from field nitrogen balance and 15N natural abundance data for the contribution of biological N2 fixation to Brazilian sugarcane varieties

(2011) Segundo Urquiaga et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

The chemical nature of P accumulation in agricultural soils—implications for fertiliser management and design: an Australian perspective

(2011) Mike J. McLaughlin et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Strategies and agronomic interventions to improve the phosphorus-use efficiency of farming systems

(2011) Richard J. Simpson et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Plant and microbial strategies to improve the phosphorus efficiency of agriculture

(2011) Alan E. Richardson et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Accelerating yield potential in soybean: potential targets for biotechnological improvement

(2011) ELIZABETH A. AINSWORTH et al.   PLANT CELL AND ENVIRONMENT

Developing Rice with High Yield under Phosphorus Deficiency: Pup1 Sequence to Application

(2011) J. H. Chin et al.   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

Three-Dimensional Root Phenotyping with a Novel Imaging and Software Platform

(2011) R. T. Clark et al.   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

RooTrak: Automated Recovery of Three-Dimensional Plant Root Architecture in Soil from X-Ray Microcomputed Tomography Images Using Visual Tracking

(2011) S. Mairhofer et al.   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

Root Phenes for Enhanced Soil Exploration and Phosphorus Acquisition: Tools for Future Crops

(2011) J. P. Lynch   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

Sugar Signaling in Root Responses to Low Phosphorus Availability

(2011) J. P. Hammond et al.   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

Predicting Maximum Tree Heights and Other Traits from Allometric Scaling and Resource Limitations

(2011) Christopher P. Kempes et al.   PLoS One

Rice, fish, and the planet

(2011) J. S. Lansing et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A Large and Persistent Carbon Sink in the World's Forests

(2011) Y. Pan et al.   SCIENCE

Comparison of Ammonium Sulfate With Other Nitrogen and Sulfur Fertilizers in Increasing Crop Production and Minimizing Environmental Impact

(2011) Sen H. Chien et al.   SOIL SCIENCE

Root developmental adaptation to phosphate starvation: better safe than sorry

(2011) Benjamin Péret et al.   TRENDS IN PLANT SCIENCE

Fertilizing Nature: A Tragedy of Excess in the Commons

(2011) Allen G. Good et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

The yield gap of global grain production: A spatial analysis

(2010) Kathleen Neumann et al.   AGRICULTURAL SYSTEMS

Nitrogen use efficiencies of spring barley grown under varying nitrogen conditions in the field and growth chamber

(2010) Perrin H. Beatty et al.   ANNALS OF BOTANY

QTL analysis of root traits as related to phosphorus efficiency in soybean

(2010) Quan Liang et al.   ANNALS OF BOTANY

Plant nutrition for sustainable development and global health

(2010) P. J. White et al.   ANNALS OF BOTANY

Energy crops in rotation. A review

(2010) Walter Zegada-Lizarazu et al.   BIOMASS & BIOENERGY

Nitrogen efficiency of wheat: Genotypic and environmental variation and prospects for improvement

(2010) Peter B. Barraclough et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF AGRONOMY

The physiological basis of genotypic differences in nitrogen use efficiency in oilseed rape (Brassica napus L.)

(2010) P.M. Berry et al.   FIELD CROPS RESEARCH

Variation in root system architecture and drought response in rice (Oryza sativa): Phenotyping of the OryzaSNP panel in rainfed lowland fields

(2010) Amelia Henry et al.   FIELD CROPS RESEARCH

Partitioning of assimilates to deeper roots is associated with cooler canopies and increased yield under drought in wheat

(2010) Marta S. Lopes et al.   FUNCTIONAL PLANT BIOLOGY

Root growth models: towards a new generation of continuous approaches

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

Root elongation, water stress, and mechanical impedance: a review of limiting stresses and beneficial root tip traits

(2010) A. Glyn Bengough et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

Detection of QTL for phosphorus efficiency at vegetative stage in Brassica napus

(2010) Mei Yang et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Shovelomics: high throughput phenotyping of maize (Zea mays L.) root architecture in the field

(2010) Samuel Trachsel et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Drought tolerance of barley varieties in relation to their root system size

(2010) O. Chloupek et al.   PLANT BREEDING

Physiological Effects of the Synthetic Strigolactone Analog GR24 on Root System Architecture in Arabidopsis: Another Belowground Role for Strigolactones?

(2010) C. Ruyter-Spira et al.   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

Imaging and Analysis Platform for Automatic Phenotyping and Trait Ranking of Plant Root Systems

(2010) A. S. Iyer-Pascuzzi et al.   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

The Evolution and Future of Earth’s Nitrogen Cycle

(2010) Donald E. Canfield et al.   SCIENCE

Food Security: The Challenge of Feeding 9 Billion People

(2010) H. C. J. Godfray et al.   SCIENCE

Quantitative trait loci for root morphology in response to low phosphorus stress in Brassica napus

(2010) Mei Yang et al.   THEORETICAL AND APPLIED GENETICS

Satisfying future water demands for agriculture

(2009) Charlotte de Fraiture et al.   AGRICULTURAL WATER MANAGEMENT

Genetic analysis of potassium use efficiency in Brassica oleracea

(2009) P. J. White et al.   ANNALS OF BOTANY

Crop Yield Gaps: Their Importance, Magnitudes, and Causes

(2009) David B. Lobell et al.   Annual Review of Environment and Resources

Planting density influence on fibrous root reinforcement of soils

(2009) K.W. Loades et al.   ECOLOGICAL ENGINEERING

Plant species richness and functional composition drive overyielding in a six-year grassland experiment

(2009) Elisabeth Marquard et al.   ECOLOGY

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

(2009) Marc Faget et al.   FUNCTIONAL PLANT BIOLOGY

Root phenomics of crops: opportunities and challenges

(2009) Peter J. Gregory et al.   FUNCTIONAL PLANT BIOLOGY

The story of phosphorus: Global food security and food for thought

(2009) Dana Cordell et al.   GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE-HUMAN AND POLICY DIMENSIONS

Shoot yield drives phosphorus use efficiency in Brassica oleracea and correlates with root architecture traits

(2009) John P. Hammond et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

Analysing nitrogen responses of cereals to prioritize routes to the improvement of nitrogen use efficiency

(2009) Roger Sylvester-Bradley et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

Root and shoot traits responses to phosphorus deficiency and QTL analysis at seedling stage using introgression lines of rice

(2009) Junzhou Li et al.   Journal of Genetics and Genomics

A safe operating space for humanity

(2009) Johan Rockström et al.   NATURE

Biofortification of crops with seven mineral elements often lacking in human diets - iron, zinc, copper, calcium, magnesium, selenium and iodine

(2009) Philip J. White et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Rhizosphere: biophysics, biogeochemistry and ecological relevance

(2009) Philippe Hinsinger et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

The dynamics of root meristem distribution in the soil

(2009) L. DUPUY et al.   PLANT CELL AND ENVIRONMENT

Combined MRI-PET dissects dynamic changes in plant structures and functions

(2009) Siegfried Jahnke et al.   PLANT JOURNAL

On the fate of anthropogenic nitrogen

(2009) W. H. Schlesinger   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Nutrient Imbalances in Agricultural Development

(2009) P. M. Vitousek et al.   SCIENCE

ECOLOGY: Controlling Eutrophication: Nitrogen and Phosphorus

(2009) D. J. Conley et al.   SCIENCE

Mechanisms of Salinity Tolerance

(2008) Rana Munns et al.   Annual Review of Plant Biology

Body building on land—morphological evolution of land plants

(2008) Liam Dolan   CURRENT OPINION IN PLANT BIOLOGY

Evidence from near-isogenic lines that root penetration increases with root diameter and bending stiffness in rice

(2008) Lawrence John Clark et al.   FUNCTIONAL PLANT BIOLOGY

How a century of ammonia synthesis changed the world

(2008) Jan Willem Erisman et al.   Nature Geoscience

Crops and genotypes differ in efficiency of potassium uptake and use

(2008) Zed Rengel et al.   PHYSIOLOGIA PLANTARUM

Novel approaches in plant breeding for rhizosphere-related traits

(2008) Matthias Wissuwa et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

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

(2008) Andreas Hund et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Relationship between Deep Root Distribution and Root Penetration Capacity Estimated by Pot Experiments with a Paraffin and Vaseline Layer for Landraces and Recent Cultivars of Wheat

(2008) Katashi Kubo et al.   PLANT PRODUCTION SCIENCE

Transformation of the Nitrogen Cycle: Recent Trends, Questions, and Potential Solutions

(2008) J. N. Galloway et al.   SCIENCE

Greenhouse gas mitigation in agriculture

(2007) P. Smith et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES