Variability of root traits in spring wheat germplasm. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2014 Root traits influence the amount of water and nutrient absorption, and are important for maintaining crop yield under drought conditions. The objectives of this research were to characterize variability of root traits among spring wheat genotypes and ...
Sruthi Narayanan +3 more
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Root traits contributing to plant productivity under drought [PDF]
Frontiers in Plant Science, 2013 Geneticists and breeders are positioned to breed plants with root traits that improve productivity under drought. However, a better understanding of root functional traits and how traits are related to whole plant strategies to increase crop productivity
Louise eComas +5 more
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PGPR Mediated Alterations in Root Traits: Way Toward Sustainable Crop Production
Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 2021 The above ground growth of the plant is highly dependent on the belowground root system. Rhizosphere is the zone of continuous interplay between plant roots and soil microbial communities. Plants, through root exudates, attract rhizosphere microorganisms
Minakshi Grover +5 more
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Species phylogeny, ecology, and root traits as predictors of root exudate composition.
New Phytologist, 2023 Root traits including root exudates are key factors affecting plant interactions with soil and thus play an important role in determining ecosystem processes. The drivers of their variation, however, remain poorly understood.
N. Rathore +6 more
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Linking Aboveground Traits to Root Traits and Local Environment: Implications of the Plant Economics Spectrum. [PDF]
Frontiers in Plant Science, 2019 The plant economics spectrum proposes that ecological traits are functionally coordinated and adapt along environmental gradients. However, empirical evidence is mixed about whether aboveground and root traits are consistently linked and which ...
Fang, Miao +5 more
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Fine Root Traits across Different Root Orders and Their Associations with Leaf Traits in 15 Co-Occurring Plant Species from the Desert–Oasis Transition Zone in the Hexi Corridor, Gansu Province, China [PDF]
PlantsFine root traits embody trade-offs between resource acquisition and conservation in plants. Yet, the differentiation of these traits across root orders, the existence of a root economics spectrum (RES) spanning these orders, and their linkage with leaf ...
Yiming Chen +5 more
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Temporal phenotypic variation of spinach root traits and its relation to shoot performance [PDF]
Scientific ReportsThe root system is important for the growth and development of spinach. To reveal the temporal variability of the spinach root system, root traits of 40 spinach accessions were measured at three imaging times (20, 30, and 43 days after transplanting) in ...
Ji Liu +5 more
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Intraspecific variation in fine-root traits is larger than in aboveground traits in European herbaceous species regardless of drought [PDF]
Frontiers in Plant ScienceDifferences within species (Intraspecific trait variation - ITV) contribute substantially to overall trait variability and environmental harshness can reduce among-species variation.
Slendy Rodríguez-Alarcón +2 more
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New Phytologist, 2023 Trait-based approaches provide a useful framework to predict ecosystem functions under intensifying global change. However, our current understanding of trait-functioning relationships mainly relies on aboveground traits.
Rihan Da +4 more
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Frontiers in Plant Science, 2023 Trait plasticity and integration mediate vegetable adaptive strategies. However, it is unclear how patterns of vegetables in root traits influence vegetable adaptation to different phosphorus (P) levels.
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