RUSSELL REVIEW Are plant roots only “in” soil or are they “of” it? Roots, soil formation and function

Root‐derived inputs are major contributors to soil carbon in temperate forests, but vary by mycorrhizal type

(2021) Adrienne B. Keller et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Plant roots sense soil compaction through restricted ethylene diffusion

(2021) Bipin K. Pandey et al.   SCIENCE

Simple Plant and Microbial Exudates Destabilize Mineral-Associated Organic Matter via Multiple Pathways

(2021) Hui Li et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Cryptogamic ground covers as analogues for early terrestrial biospheres: Initiation and evolution of biologically mediated proto‐soils

(2021) Ria L. Mitchell et al.   Geobiology

Legume–microbiome interactions unlock mineral nutrients in regrowing tropical forests

(2021) Dimitar Z. Epihov et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Soil health at a crossroad

(2021) Philippe C. Baveye   SOIL USE AND MANAGEMENT

Can precrops uplift subsoil nutrients to topsoil?

(2021) Eusun Han et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Roots take up labeled nitrogen from a depth of 9 m in a wooded savanna in Brazil

(2021) Rafael Costa Pinheiro et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Maize (Zea mays L.) Root Growth and Its Potential Consequences for the Assembly of the Rhizosphere Microbiota

(2021) Michael Bonkowski et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Rhizosphere community selection reveals bacteria associated with reduced root disease

(2021) Chuntao Yin et al.   Microbiome

Plant rhizodeposition: A key factor for soil organic matter formation in stable fractions

(2021) Sebastián H. Villarino et al.   Science Advances

Out of the dark: Using energy flux to connect above‐ and belowground communities and ecosystem functioning

(2021) Malte Jochum et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF SOIL SCIENCE

Belowground consequences of converting broadleaf to conifer forest: Comparing the fine root systems of European beech and Scots pine

(2021) Agnes Förster et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Factors affecting the performance of microbial-induced carbonate precipitation (MICP) treated soil: a review

(2020) Chao-Sheng Tang et al.   Environmental Earth Sciences

Digging Deeper for Agricultural Resources, the Value of Deep Rooting

(2020) Kristian Thorup-Kristensen et al.   TRENDS IN PLANT SCIENCE

Rhizosphere priming effects in soil aggregates with different size classes

(2020) Xiaohong Wang et al.   Ecosphere

Pore-scale view of microbial turnover: combining 14 C imaging, μCT, and zymography after adding soluble carbon to soil pores of specific sizes

(2020) A.N. Kravchenko et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF SOIL SCIENCE

A plant’s diet, surviving in a variable nutrient environment

(2020) Giles E. D. Oldroyd et al.   SCIENCE

Entomopathogenic nematodes from Mexico that can overcome the resistance mechanisms of the western corn rootworm

(2020) Pamela Bruno et al.   Scientific Reports

Editorial: Evolution of Signaling in Plant Symbioses

(2020) Jeanne Marie Harris et al.   Frontiers in Plant Science

Should Root Plasticity Be a Crop Breeding Target?

(2020) Hannah M. Schneider et al.   Frontiers in Plant Science

The impacts of land plant evolution on Earth's climate and oxygenation state – An interdisciplinary review

(2020) Tais W. Dahl et al.   CHEMICAL GEOLOGY

Global patterns and climatic controls of belowground net carbon fixation

(2020) Laureano A. Gherardi et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Multiple stages of plant root calcification deciphered by chemical and micromorphological analyses

(2020) Arnaud Huguet et al.   Geobiology

Do plants use root-derived proteases to promote the uptake of soil organic nitrogen?

(2020) Lucy M. Greenfield et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Sustainable Cropping Requires Adaptation to a Heterogeneous Rhizosphere

(2020) Xin Wang et al.   TRENDS IN PLANT SCIENCE

Effect of common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris) on apatite weathering under elevated CO2

(2020) Brian Morra et al.   CHEMICAL GEOLOGY

Root effects on soil organic carbon: a double‐edged sword

(2020) Feike A. Dijkstra et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Root traits as drivers of plant and ecosystem functioning: current understanding, pitfalls and future research needs

(2020) Grégoire T. Freschet et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Plant intraspecific competition and growth stage alter carbon and nitrogen mineralization in the rhizosphere

(2020) Yue Sun et al.   PLANT CELL AND ENVIRONMENT

How microbes can, and cannot, be used to assess soil health

(2020) Noah Fierer et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Root Exudation of Primary Metabolites: Mechanisms and Their Roles in Plant Responses to Environmental Stimuli

(2019) Alberto Canarini et al.   Frontiers in Plant Science

Differences in investment and functioning of cluster roots account for different distributions of Banksia attenuata and B. sessilis, with contrasting life history

(2019) Jianmin Shi et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Root phenotypes for improved nutrient capture: an underexploited opportunity for global agriculture

(2019) Jonathan P. Lynch   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Specialized roots of Velloziaceae weather quartzite rock while mobilizing phosphorus using carboxylates

(2019) Grazielle Sales Teodoro et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

A plant perspective on nitrogen cycling in the rhizosphere

(2019) Delphine Moreau et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

A specialized metabolic network selectively modulates Arabidopsis root microbiota

(2019) Ancheng C. Huang et al.   SCIENCE

Variation in rhizosphere priming and microbial growth and carbon use efficiency caused by wheat genotypes and temperatures

(2019) Liming Yin et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Carbon input and allocation by rice into paddy soils: A review

(2019) Yalong Liu et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Soil structure formation along an agricultural chronosequence

(2019) Maik Lucas et al.   GEODERMA

Root traits benefitting crop production in environments with limited water and nutrient availability

(2019) Philip J White   ANNALS OF BOTANY

Mycorrhizal Fungi as Mediators of Soil Organic Matter Dynamics

(2019) Serita D. Frey   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

Soil carbon storage informed by particulate and mineral-associated organic matter

(2019) M. Francesca Cotrufo et al.   Nature Geoscience

Kaolinite neoformation from palygorskite in the rhizosphere of citrus trees in semi-arid regions

(2019) Vajihe Shahrokh et al.   CATENA

A case study on the efficacy of root phenotypic selection for edaphic stress tolerance in low-input agriculture: Common bean breeding in Mozambique

(2019) James D. Burridge et al.   FIELD CROPS RESEARCH

Plant roots stimulate the decomposition of complex, but not simple, soil carbon

(2019) Jessica A. M. Moore et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Vellozioid roots allow for habitat specialization among rock‐ and soil‐dwelling Velloziaceae in campos rupestres

(2019) Anna Abrahão et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Crop Improvement from Phenotyping Roots: Highlights Reveal Expanding Opportunities

(2019) Saoirse R. Tracy et al.   TRENDS IN PLANT SCIENCE

Minerals in the rhizosphere: overlooked mediators of soil nitrogen availability to plants and microbes

(2018) Andrea Jilling et al.   BIOGEOCHEMISTRY

FAST TRACK: Modifications of 2:1 clay minerals in a kaolinite-dominated Ultisol under changing land-use regimes

(2018) Jason J.C. Austin et al.   CLAYS AND CLAY MINERALS

The search for the meaning of life in soil: an opinion

(2018) I. M. Young et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF SOIL SCIENCE

Soil structure as an indicator of soil functions: A review

(2018) E. Rabot et al.   GEODERMA

Costs of acquiring phosphorus by vascular land plants: patterns and implications for plant coexistence

(2018) John A. Raven et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Little evidence that farmers should consider abundance or diversity of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi when managing crops

(2018) Megan H. Ryan et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Three dimensional characteristics of biopores and non-biopores in the subsoil respond differently to land use and fertilization

(2018) Zhongbin Zhang et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

The root of the matter: Linking root traits and soil organic matter stabilization processes

(2018) Vincent Poirier et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Soil quality – A critical review

(2018) Else K. Bünemann et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Loss of deep roots limits biogenic agents of soil development that are only partially restored by decades of forest regeneration

(2018) Sharon A. Billings et al.   Elementa-Science of the Anthropocene

Evidence for the primacy of living root inputs, not root or shoot litter, in forming soil organic carbon

(2018) Noah W. Sokol et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Emergent Macrophyte Root Architecture Controls Subsurface Solute Transport

(2018) M. Nikolakopoulou et al.   WATER RESOURCES RESEARCH

Root exudates drive the soil-borne legacy of aboveground pathogen infection

(2018) Jun Yuan et al.   Microbiome

Weathering of rock to regolith: The activity of deep roots in bedrock fractures

(2017) Elizabeth A. Hasenmueller et al.   GEODERMA

Carbon input by roots into the soil: Quantification of rhizodeposition from root to ecosystem scale

(2017) Johanna Pausch et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Plant signalling in symbiosis and immunity

(2017) Cyril Zipfel et al.   NATURE

Disease Suppressive Soils: New Insights from the Soil Microbiome

(2017) Daniel Schlatter et al.   PHYTOPATHOLOGY

Quantification of root water uptake in soil using X-ray computed tomography and image-based modelling

(2017) Keith R. Daly et al.   PLANT CELL AND ENVIRONMENT

N2-fixing tropical legume evolution: a contributor to enhanced weathering through the Cenozoic?

(2017) Dimitar Z. Epihov et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Understanding deep roots and their functions in ecosystems: an advocacy for more unconventional research

(2016) Alain Pierret et al.   ANNALS OF BOTANY

Roots, rock, and regolith: Biomechanical and biochemical weathering by trees and its impact on hillslopes—A critical literature review

(2016) Łukasz Pawlik et al.   EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS

Mineral weathering and soil development in the earliest land plant ecosystems

(2016) Ria L. Mitchell et al.   GEOLOGY

From promise to application: root traits for enhanced nutrient capture in rice breeding

(2016) Matthias Wissuwa et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

Soil acidification and the importance of liming agricultural soils with particular reference to the United Kingdom

(2016) K. W. T. Goulding   SOIL USE AND MANAGEMENT

QTL meta-analysis of root traits in Brassica napus under contrasting phosphorus supply in two growth systems

(2016) Ying Zhang et al.   Scientific Reports

Weathering, secondary mineral genesis, and soil formation caused by lichens and mosses growing on granitic gneiss in a boreal forest environment

(2015) Togwell A. Jackson   GEODERMA

Formation of soil organic matter via biochemical and physical pathways of litter mass loss

(2015) M. Francesca Cotrufo et al.   Nature Geoscience

Redefining fine roots improves understanding of below-ground contributions to terrestrial biosphere processes

(2015) M. Luke McCormack et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Indication of millennial-scale moisture changes by the temporal distribution of Holocene calcareous root tubes in the deserts of the Alashan Plateau, Northwest China

(2015) Zhuolun Li et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

Could land-based early photosynthesizing ecosystems have bioengineered the planet in mid-Palaeozoic times?

(2015) Dianne Edwards et al.   PALAEONTOLOGY

Constraining the role of early land plants in Palaeozoic weathering and global cooling

(2015) Joe Quirk et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Rhizosphere priming can promote mobilisation of N-rich compounds from soil organic matter

(2015) Conor J. Murphy et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Mineral protection of soil carbon counteracted by root exudates

(2015) Marco Keiluweit et al.   Nature Climate Change

Diversity of plant nutrient-acquisition strategies increases during long-term ecosystem development

(2015) Graham Zemunik et al.   Nature Plants

Soil organic carbon dynamics 75 years after land-use change in perennial grassland and annual wheat agricultural systems

(2014) Joshua W. Beniston et al.   BIOGEOCHEMISTRY

Beyond carbon sequestration: soil as conduit of solar energy

(2014) H. H. Janzen   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF SOIL SCIENCE

The role of forest trees and their mycorrhizal fungi in carbonate rock weathering and its significance for global carbon cycling

(2014) RACHEL M. S. THORLEY et al.   PLANT CELL AND ENVIRONMENT

The Origin and Early Evolution of Roots

(2014) P. Kenrick et al.   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

Deep rooting conferred by DEEPER ROOTING 1 enhances rice yield in paddy fields

(2014) Yumiko Arai-Sanoh et al.   Scientific Reports

Opportunities and threats of deep soil organic matter storage

(2014) Cornelia Rumpel   Carbon Management

How a phosphorus-acquisition strategy based on carboxylate exudation powers the success and agronomic potential of lupines (Lupinus , Fabaceae)

(2013) Hans Lambers et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

Matching roots to their environment

(2013) Philip J. White et al.   ANNALS OF BOTANY

Increase of apatite dissolution rate by Scots pine roots associated or not with Burkholderia glathei PML1(12)Rp in open-system flow microcosms

(2013) Christophe Calvaruso et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

Speak, friend and enter: signalling systems that promote beneficial symbiotic associations in plants

(2013) Giles E. D. Oldroyd   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Competition between roots and microorganisms for nitrogen: mechanisms and ecological relevance

(2013) Yakov Kuzyakov et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Synthesis and modeling perspectives of rhizosphere priming

(2013) Weixin Cheng et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Illite transformation and potassium release upon changes in composition of the rhizophere soil solution

(2013) Doris Vetterlein et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

The hidden organic carbon in deep mineral soils

(2013) R. J. Harper et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Investigation of photosynthate-C allocation 27 days after 13C-pulse labeling of Zea mays L. at different growth stages

(2013) Fanqiao Meng et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Roots and Associated Fungi Drive Long-Term Carbon Sequestration in Boreal Forest

(2013) K. E. Clemmensen et al.   SCIENCE

Impacts of drying–wetting cycles on rhizosphere respiration and soil organic matter decomposition

(2013) Biao Zhu et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

How does pedogenesis drive plant diversity?

(2013) Etienne Laliberté et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Macropores and water flow in soils revisited

(2013) Keith Beven et al.   WATER RESOURCES RESEARCH

A novel grass hybrid to reduce flood generation in temperate regions

(2013) Christopher J. A. Macleod et al.   Scientific Reports

How to study deep roots—and why it matters

(2013) Jean-Luc Maeght et al.   Frontiers in Plant Science

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

A Common Signaling Process that Promotes Mycorrhizal and Oomycete Colonization of Plants

(2012) Ertao Wang et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Soil organic matter turnover is governed by accessibility not recalcitrance

(2012) Jennifer A. J. Dungait et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Evolutionary Patterns and Biogeochemical Significance of Angiosperm Root Traits

(2012) L. H. Comas et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PLANT SCIENCES

First plants cooled the Ordovician

(2012) Timothy M. Lenton et al.   Nature Geoscience

Magnesium Uptake and Palygorskite Transformation Abilities of Wheat and Oat

(2012) M.H. SALEHI et al.   PEDOSPHERE

A timeline for terrestrialization: consequences for the carbon cycle in the Palaeozoic

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

Capsules containing entomopathogenic nematodes as a Trojan horse approach to control the western corn rootworm

(2012) Ivan Hiltpold et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Factors impacting the activity of 2,4-diacetylphloroglucinol-producing Pseudomonas fluorescens against take-all of wheat

(2012) Youn-Sig Kwak et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

QTLs associated with root traits increase yield in upland rice when transferred through marker-assisted selection

(2012) K. A. Steele et al.   THEORETICAL AND APPLIED GENETICS

The rhizosphere microbiome and plant health

(2012) Roeland L. Berendsen et al.   TRENDS IN PLANT SCIENCE

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

(2011) D. B. Kell   ANNALS OF BOTANY

Benefits of increased soil exploration by wheat roots

(2011) J.M. Lilley et al.   FIELD CROPS RESEARCH

Changes in Preferential Flow Path Distribution and Its Affecting Factors in Southwest China

(2011) Jinhua Cheng et al.   SOIL SCIENCE

Selection of entomopathogenic nematodes for enhanced responsiveness to a volatile root signal helps to control a major root pest

(2010) I. Hiltpold et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Enhancement of rice production using endophytic strains of Rhizobium leguminosarum bv. trifolii in extensive field inoculation trials within the Egypt Nile delta

(2010) Youssef G. Yanni et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Deep soil organic matter—a key but poorly understood component of terrestrial C cycle

(2010) Cornelia Rumpel et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi as (agro)ecosystem engineers

(2010) Duncan D. Cameron   PLANT AND SOIL

Plant genotype strongly modifies the structure and growth of maize rhizosphere microbial communities

(2010) Manuel Aira et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Sustainable multifunctional landscapes: a review to implementation

(2010) Patrick J O’Farrell et al.   Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability

Root phenomics of crops: opportunities and challenges

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

Mycorrhizal associations and other means of nutrition of vascular plants: understanding the global diversity of host plants by resolving conflicting information and developing reliable means of diagnosis

(2009) Mark C. Brundrett   PLANT AND SOIL

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

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

The distribution and abundance of wheat roots in a dense, structured subsoil – implications for water uptake

(2009) ROSEMARY G. WHITE et al.   PLANT CELL AND ENVIRONMENT

Chemical weathering of soil minerals and the role of biological processes

(2009) Harald Sverdrup   Fungal Biology Reviews

Variation in root-associated phosphatase activities in wheat contributes to the utilization of organic P substrates in vitro, but does not explain differences in the P-nutrition of plants when grown in soils

(2008) Timothy S. George et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL AND EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

Environmental impacts of introducing grain legumes into European crop rotations

(2008) Thomas Nemecek et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF AGRONOMY

Biological weathering in soil: the role of symbiotic root-associated fungi biosensing minerals and directing photosynthate-energy into grain-scale mineral weathering

(2008) J. R. Leake et al.   MINERALOGICAL MAGAZINE

Measuring root traits in barley (Hordeum vulgare ssp. vulgare and ssp. spontaneum) seedlings using gel chambers, soil sacs and X-ray microtomography

(2008) Caroline E. Hargreaves et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Plant nutrient-acquisition strategies change with soil age

(2008) H LAMBERS et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION