Background and aim Hydraulically lifted water can be redistributed to a neighbouring plant,
a process referred to as “bioirrigation”. Facilitation of bioirrigation by beneficial microbes …

Bioirrigation has been defined as the transfer of hydraulically lifted water by a deep-rooted
plant to a neighbouring shallow-rooted plant which cannot access deep soil moisture. In this …

Background and aims Interplant transfer of hydraulically redistributed water (HRW) can take
place via mycorrhizal hyphal networks linking the roots of neighboring plants. We conducted …

Legume-cereal intercropping is well known in traditional dry land agriculture. Here, we
tested whether finger millet, a shallow-rooted cereal, can profit from neighboring pigeon pea …

Plant roots may be linked by shared or common mycorrhizal networks (CMNs) that constitute
pathways for the transfer of resources among plants. The potential for water transfer by such …

Arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi play a positive role in plant water relations, and the AM
symbiosis is often cited as beneficial for overcoming drought stress of host plants …

Background and aims We conducted a mesocosm study to investigate the extent to which
the process of hydraulic redistribution of soil water by plant roots is affected by …

Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) have been presumed to ameliorate crop tolerance to
drought. Here, we review the role of AMF in maintaining water supply to plants from drying …

Recent studies have identified soil drying as a dominant driver of transpiration reduction at
the global scale. Although Arbuscular Mycorrhiza Fungi (AMF) are assumed to play a pivotal …

Hydraulic redistribution (HR) is a process by which water moves through plant roots from
moist to dry soils. An experiment was conducted to quantify the influence of common …