New Publications

Location: root architecture structures rhizosphere microbial associations
A role for fermentation in aerobic conditions as revealed by computational analysis of maize root metabolism during growth by cell elongation
Cortical parenchyma wall width (CPW) regulates root metabolic cost and maize performance under suboptimal water availability
Root Phenotypes for Improved Nitrogen Capture
Cortical cell size regulates root metabolic cost
LEADER (Leaf Element Accumulation from Deep Roots): a nondestructive phenotyping platform to estimate rooting depth in the field
Transcription factor bHLH121 regulates root cortical aerenchyma formation in maize
Large root cortical cells and reduced cortical cell files improve growth under suboptimal nitrogen regimes in silico
Influence of root cortical aerenchyma on the rhizosphere microbiome of field-grown maize
Genome-wide association analysis of root hair traits in rice reveals novel genomic regions controlling epidermal cell differentiation
Response of Southeast Asian rice root architecture and anatomy phenotypes to drought stress
Comparative phenomics of root architecture and anatomy in Phaseolus species
In silico evidence for the utility of parsimonious root phenotypes for improved vegetative growth and carbon sequestration under drought
Many paths to one goal: Identifying integrated rice root phenotypes for diverse drought environments
Root angle is controlled by EGT1 in cereal crops employing a novel anti-gravitropic mechanism
Modelling root loss reveals impacts on nutrient uptake and crop development
RootSlice: functional structural modeling of root anatomy
Spatiotemporal responses to drought in rice roots.
Developmental morphology and anatomy shed light on both parallel and convergent evolution of the umbellate inflorescence in Monocots, underlied by a new variant of metatopy.
Gradual domestication of root traits in the earliest maize from Tehuacan
The importance of edaphic stress interactions for plant function: important yet poorly understood drivers of plant production in future climates.
Multi-objective optimization of root phenotypes for nutrient acquisition using evolutionary algorithms
Root and xylem anatomy varies with root length, root order, soil depth, and environment in intermediate wheatgrass Thinopyrum intermedium and Alfalfa Medicago sativa: Implications for water uptake.
Anatomics: High-throughput phenotyping of plant anatomy
Root anatomical phenotypes related to growth under low nitrogen availability in maize (Zea mays L.) hybrids
Improving soil resource uptake by plants through capitalizing synergies between root architecture and anatomy and root-associated microorganisms
Relative utility of agronomic, phenological, and morphological traits for assessing genotype-by-environment interaction in maize inbreds
Stomata-mediated interactions between plants, herbivores, and the environment
Utility of Climatic Information via Combining Ability Models to Improve Genomic Prediction for Yield within the Genomes to Fields Maize Project
The importance of dominance and genotype-by-environment interactions on grain yield variation in a large-scale public cooperative maize experiment