Andreas J Wild, Franziska A Steiner, Marvin Kiene, Nicolas Tyborski, Shu-Yin Tung, Tina Koehler, Andrea Carminati, Barbara Eder, Jennifer Groth, Wouter K Vahl, Sebastian Wolfrum, Tillmann Lueders, Christian Laforsch, Carsten W Mueller, Alix Vidal, Johanna Pausch
A holistic understanding of plant strategies to acquire soil resources is pivotal in achieving sustainable food security. However, we lack knowledge about variety-specific root and rhizosphere traits for resource acquisition, their plasticity and adaptation to drought. We conducted a greenhouse experiment to phenotype root and rhizosphere traits (mean root diameter [Root D], specific root length [SRL], root tissue density, root nitrogen content, specific rhizosheath mass [SRM], arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi [AMF] colonization) of 16 landraces and 22 modern cultivars of temperate maize (Zea mays L...
March 22, 2024: Plant, Cell & Environment