An international team including engineers from Princeton has devised a way to watch, in stunning detail, as the hollow ...

This study summarizes the current research status of the impacts of crop domestication and improvement on root ...

Over time, our industry has come to better appreciate water. Water availability and the cost of water are now regular topics ...

Essentially all of the water used by land plants is absorbed from the soil by roots. A root system consists of a complex network of individual roots that vary in age along their length.

Changes in root architecture, induction of root-based transport systems and associations with beneficial soil microorganisms allow plants to maintain optimal nutrient content in the face of ...

In a major scientific advancement, researchers have decoded the genetic foundation of root system architecture (RSA) in ...