Background Suboptimal water and nutrient availability are primary constraints in global
agriculture. Root anatomy plays key roles in soil resource acquisition. In this article we …

Reliable, automatic, multifunctional, and high-throughput phenotypic technologies are
increasingly considered important tools for rapid advancement of genetic gain in breeding …

With the rapid development of genetic analysis techniques and crop population size,
phenotyping has become the bottleneck restricting crop breeding. Breaking through this …

The conventional plant breeding evaluation of large sets of plant phenotypes with precision
and speed is very challenging. Thus, consistent, automated, multifaceted, and high …

Nanoplastics (NPs) have been demonstrated the ability to penetrate plant roots and cause
stress. However, the extent of NPs penetration into various root tissues and the …

Plants require water, but a deficit or excess of water can negatively impact their growth and
functioning. Soil flooding, in which root-zone is filled with excess water, restricts oxygen …

In recent years, a new branch of plant physiology, plant phenomics, which focuses on
identifying patterns of organization and changes in plant Phenomes, ie, physical and …

Geoelectrical methods are increasingly used to investigate soil‐plant interactions in an
agricultural context. For this, it is essential to quantify root electrical properties, since they …

Root hydraulic conductivity is a limiting factor along the water pathways between the soil
and the leaf, and root radial conductivity is itself defined by cell-scale hydraulic properties …

Xylem is a vascular tissue that conducts sap (water and dissolved minerals) from the roots to
the rest of the plant while providing physical support and resources. Sap is conducted within …