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Root Traits and Phenotyping Strategies for Plant Improvement [PDF]

Plants, 2015
Roots are crucial for nutrient and water acquisition and can be targeted to enhance plant productivity under a broad range of growing conditions. A current challenge for plant breeding is the limited ability to phenotype and select for desirable root characteristics due to their underground location.
Ana Paez-Garcia, Christy M. Motes, Wolf-Rüdiger Scheible, Rujin Chen, Elison B. Blancaflor, Maria J. Monteros   +5 more
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Drought affects the coordination of belowground and aboveground resource‐related traits in Solidago canadensis in China

Ecology and Evolution, 2019
Quantifying patterns of variation and coordination of plant functional traits can help to understand the mechanisms underlying both invasiveness and adaptation of plants.
Leshan Du, Haiyan Liu, Wenbin Guan, Junmin Li, Junsheng Li   +4 more
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Root Foraging Performance and Life-History Traits [PDF]

Frontiers in Plant Science, 2016
Plants use their roots to forage for nutrients in heterogeneous soil environments, but different plant species vastly differ in the intensity of foraging they perform. This diversity suggests the existence of constraints on foraging at the species level.
Weiser, Martin, Koubek, Tomáš, Herben, Tomáš   +2 more
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Variation in fine root traits with thinning intensity in a Chinese fir plantation insights from branching order and functional groups

Scientific Reports, 2021
Thinning is a widely used practice in forest management, but the acclimation mechanisms of fine roots to forest thinning are still unclear. We examined the variations in fine root traits of different branching orders and functional groups along a ...
Zuhua Wang, Min Liu, Fen Chen, Haibo Li
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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

Plants
Fine 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, Jing Ma, Hongyong Wang, Tingting Xie, Quangang Li, Lishan Shan   +5 more
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Introduction to a Virtual Issue on root traits [PDF]

New Phytologist, 2017
Link to the Virtual ...
Richard J, Norby, Colleen M, Iversen
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Assessment of genetic variability, character association, heritability and path analysis in European carrot (Daucus carota var. sativa)

The Indian Journal of Agricultural Sciences, 2019
Studies of genetic variability and relationship among the 40 genotypes of European carrot (Daucus carota L. var sativa) for important horticultural traits revealed wide range of variability for the traits.
S R SINGH, N AHMED, J K RANJAN, K K SRIVATAVA, DINESH KUMAR, S YOUSUF   +5 more
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Functional traits and root morphology of alpine plants [PDF]

Annals of Botany, 2011
Vegetation has long been recognized to protect the soil from erosion. Understanding species differences in root morphology and functional traits is an important step to assess which species and species mixtures may provide erosion control. Furthermore, extending classification of plant functional types towards root traits may be a useful procedure in ...
Pohl, Mandy, Stroude, Raphael, Buttler, Alexandre, Rixen, Christian   +3 more
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Editorial: Root functional traits: From fine root to community-level variation

Frontiers in Plant Science, 2023
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García de la Riva, Enrique, Borden, Kira, Ostonen, Ivika, Saengwilai, Patompong, Prieto Aguilar, Iván   +4 more
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Timing matters: Distinct effects of nitrogen and phosphorus fertilizer application timing on root system architecture responses

Plant-Environment Interactions, 2021
Aims Although different plant foraging responses to the two macronutrients nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) are well researched, the effect of timing of fertilizer application on root system architecture (RSA) remains largely unknown. We, therefore, aimed
Richard vanDuijnen, Hannah Uther, Werner Härdtle, Vicky M. Temperton, Amit Kumar   +4 more
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