Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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8625716 | Current Opinion in Genetics & Development | 2018 | 8 Pages |
Abstract
Our understanding of how roots develop in soil may be at the eve of significant transformations. The formidable expansion of imaging technologies enables live observations of the rhizosphere micro-pore architecture at unprecedented resolution. Granular matter physics provides ways to understand the microscopic fluctuations of forces in soils, and the increasing knowledge of plant mechanobiology may shed new lights on how roots perceive soil heterogeneity. This opinion paper exposes how recent scientific achievements may contribute to refresh our views on root growth in heterogeneous environments.
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Authors
LX Dupuy, M Mimault, D Patko, V Ladmiral, B Ameduri, MP MacDonald, M Ptashnyk,