The remarkable complexity of soil and its importance to a wide range of ecosystem services
presents major challenges to the modeling of soil processes. Although major progress in soil …

Plant root water uptake (RWU) has been documented for the past five decades from water
stable isotopic analysis. By comparing the (hydrogen or oxygen) stable isotopic …

Assessing root sources of three uncertainties–parameterization of soil hydraulic
characteristics, boundary conditions, and estimation of source/sink terms–is a significant …

Vegetation and the water cycles are inherently coupled across a wide range of spatial and
temporal scales. Water availability interacts with plant ecophysiology and controls …

Classifying the diverse ways that plants respond to hydrologic stress into generalizable
'water‐use strategies' has long been an eco‐physiological research goal. While many …

Background Three–dimensional root architectural models emerged in the late 1980s,
providing an opportunity to conceptualise and investigate that all important part of plants that …

Soils form the skin of the Earth's surface, regulating water and biogeochemical cycles and
generating production of food, timber, and textiles around the world. Changes in soil and its …

Do root hairs help roots take up water from the soil? Despite the well-documented role of
root hairs in phosphate uptake, their role in water extraction is controversial. We grew barley …

Technological and methodological progress is essential to improve our understanding of
fundamental processes in natural and engineering sciences. In this paper, we will address …

Core Ideas Parameters of different RWU models were optimized using data from a rhizotron
facility. The same soil hydraulic properties were obtained for models considering RWU …