Rightsizing root phenotypes for drought resistance

JP Lynch - Journal of Experimental Botany, 2018‏ - academic.oup.com
I propose that reduced root development would be advantageous for drought resistance in
high-input agroecosystems. Selection regimes for crop ancestors and landraces include …

Application of ground penetrating radar methods in soil studies: A review

K Zajícová, T Chuman - Geoderma, 2019‏ - Elsevier
Applications of ground penetrating radar (GPR) in soil surveys promise cost and time
benefits together with the possibility of repeating surveys at the same locations due to the …

Global human-made mass exceeds all living biomass

E Elhacham, L Ben-Uri, J Grozovski, YM Bar-On, R Milo - Nature, 2020‏ - nature.com
Humanity has become a dominant force in sha** the face of Earth 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9.
An emerging question is how the overall material output of human activities compares to the …

Methods for estimating root biomass and production in forest and woodland ecosystem carbon studies: A review

SD Addo-Danso, CE Prescott, AR Smith - Forest Ecology and Management, 2016‏ - Elsevier
Fine and coarse roots are key contributors to belowground net primary productivity, and play
critical roles in the biogeochemical cycling of forest and woodland ecosystems. Despite their …

Recent advances in methods for in situ root phenoty**

A Li, L Zhu, W Xu, L Liu, G Teng - PeerJ, 2022‏ - peerj.com
Roots assist plants in absorbing water and nutrients from soil. Thus, they are vital to the
survival of nearly all land plants, considering that plants cannot move to seek optimal …

Ground penetrating radar (GPR) detects fine roots of agricultural crops in the field

X Liu, X Dong, Q Xue, DI Leskovar, J Jifon, JR Butnor… - Plant and Soil, 2018‏ - Springer
Aim Ground penetrating radar (GPR) as a non-invasive technique is widely used in coarse
root detection. However, the applicability of the technique to detect fine roots of agricultural …

Enhanced automatic root recognition and localization in GPR images through a YOLOv4-based deep learning approach

S Li, X Cui, L Guo, L Zhang, X Chen… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In recent years, ground-penetrating radar (GPR) has become increasingly important as a
nondestructive way to explore plant roots. Automatic recognition and localization of root …

Root moisture content influence on root tensile tests of herbaceous plants

C Zhang, X Zhou, J Jiang, Y Wei, J Ma, PD Hallett - Catena, 2019‏ - Elsevier
Root tensile strength controls root reinforcement, but a range of factors including root
moisture and diameter have such a large impact that it is difficult to make predictions. In this …

Tree root automatic recognition in ground penetrating radar profiles based on randomized Hough transform

W Li, X Cui, L Guo, J Chen, X Chen, X Cao - Remote Sensing, 2016‏ - mdpi.com
As a nondestructive geophysical tool, Ground penetrating radar (GPR) has been applied in
tree root study in recent years. With increasing amounts of GPR data collected for roots, it is …

[PDF][PDF] Ground penetrating radar for underground sensing in agriculture: a review

X Liu, X Dong, DI Leskovar - International Agrophysics, 2016‏ - archive.sciendo.com
Belowground properties strongly affect agricultural productivity. Traditional methods for
quantifying belowground properties are destructive, labor-intensive and pointbased. Ground …