The current unpredictable climate changes are causing frequent and severe droughts. Such
circumstances emphasize the need to understand the response of plants to drought stress …

Advances in automated and high-throughput imaging technologies have resulted in a
deluge of high-resolution images and sensor data of plants. However, extracting patterns …

Rhododendron delavayi Franch. is globally famous as an ornamental plant. Its distribution in
southwest China covers several different habitats and environments. However, not much …

Competition simultaneously limits the availability of above‐and below‐ground resources for
plants. How plants respond to density with changes in patterns of biomass allocation is …

The plant root system traverses one of the most complex environments on earth.
Understanding how roots support plant life on land requires knowing how soil properties …

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 …

Image analysis has become a powerful technique for most plant scientists. In recent years
dozens of image analysis tools have been published in plant science journals. These tools …

Background Plant root research can provide a way to attain stress-tolerant crops that
produce greater yield in a diverse array of conditions. Phenotyping roots in soil is often …

Background Plant root systems are key drivers of plant function and yield. They are also
under-explored targets to meet global food and energy demands. Many new technologies …

Water scarcity is the primary constraint on crop productivity in arid and semiarid tropical
areas suffering from climate alterations; in accordance, agricultural systems have to be …