Modern agriculture highly depends on the achievements of crop domestication and improvement. While these activities increase yields, they also reduce the genetic diversity of crops. At the same time, ...

Recent efforts to understand how functional traits are organized across land plants have revealed notable patterns across the leaf economic spectrum 5,6, but whether such a high degree of organization ...

The exudation rates of fluid and potassium ions from isolated maize roots were determined before and after excision of certain lengths of root tip. The results of this study suggest that excised maize ...

The key to three-dimensional plant architecture lies in precise control over the orientation of cell division. Plant cells divide periclinally to grow radially—leading to thickening—while anticlinal ...

Vol. 226, No. 1, RECENT ADVANCES OF PLANT ROOT STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION PROCEEDINGS OF THE 5TH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION OF ROOTS (2000), pp. 1-10 (10 pages) We used a transgenic ...

A robotic root-sensing system developed at The University of Queensland is opening up new opportunities for more productive agricultural crops. The root phenotyping system provides new information on ...

Evolution and systematics / Robert S. Wallace and Arthur C. Gibson -- Shoot anatomy and morphology / Teresa Terrazas Salgado and James D. Mauseth -- Root structure and function / Joseph G. Dubrovsky ...