Soil conditions and cereal root system architecture: review and considerations for linking Darwin and Weaver

• Published in: Journal of experimental botany Vol. 64; no. 5; pp. 1193 - 1208
• Main Authors: Rich, Sarah M, Watt, Michelle
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Oxford University Press [etc.] 01.03.2013; Oxford University Press
• Subjects: adults; Agricultural soils; Agriculture; Agrology; Agronomy. Soil science and plant productions; anatomy & histology; Arabidopsis; Architecture; Biological and medical sciences; branching; Corn; DARWIN REVIEW; Economic plant physiology; Edible Grain; Edible Grain - anatomy & histology; Edible Grain - growth & development; Edible Grain - physiology; Environment, Controlled; Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology; grains; gravitropism; gravity; growth & development; Humans; Movements; nutrients; physiology; plant genetics; Plant physiology and development; Plant Roots; Plant Roots - anatomy & histology; Plant Roots - growth & development; Plant Roots - physiology; Plants; Root growth; Root systems; roots; seedlings; Soil; soil analysis; soil management; Soil water; Tropism; Tropism - physiology; Tropism and nastic movements; Wheat; Plant production; Branching; Tropism; root architecture; Cereals; Root; Growth; Review; Cereal crop; root elongation; Soils; root branching; Botany; Cereal; Gravitropism; crop productivity; tropisms; Elongation

Charles Darwin founded root system architecture research in 1880 when he described a root bending with gravity. Curving, elongating, and branching are the three cellular processes in roots that underlie root architecture. Together they determine the distribution of roots through soil and time, and h...