This study summarizes the current research status of the impacts of crop domestication and improvement on root ...

Plants are able to modify their root hydraulics to maintain water status and strategically use soil water, according to a new ...

Growing vegetables, flowers, and herbs in a raised garden bed is a handy solution if you have poor soil or drainage problems, and it allows you to start planting earlier in spring ...

Essentially all of the water used by land plants is absorbed from the soil by roots. A root system consists of a complex network of individual roots that vary in age along their length.

and the upward trajectory correlates to smaller plant root systems. Therefore, Below said, growing more plants with smaller root systems demands a change in how a crop is managed. “This is an ...