Gao, Yuqiu Wang, Huimin Yang, Fengting Dai, Xiaoqin Meng, Shengwang Hu, Mingyuan Kou, Liang Fu, Xiaoli
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Tree physiology
Plants allocate a substantial amount of C belowground for root exudates and for the construction and adjustment of root morphological and architectural traits. What relationships exist between root exudates and other root traits and these relationships change with growing season, however, remain unclear. We quantified the root exudation rate and ro...
Zhu, Shi Chen Liu, Wen Shen Chen, Zi Wu Liu, Xiao Rui Zheng, Hong Xiang Chen, Bo Yu Zhi, Xin Yu Chao, Yuanqing Qiu, Rong Liang Chu, Chengjin
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An increasing number of studies have shown how feedback interactions between plants and soil can influence primary and secondary succession. However, very little is known about the patterns and mechanisms of such plant–soil feedbacks on stressed mine tailings ecosystem, which can be severely contaminated by a range of toxic elements. In a two-phase...
Hogan, J Aaron Jusino, Michelle A Smith, Matthew E Corrales, Adriana Song, Xiaoyang Hu, Yue-Hua Yang, Jie Cao, Min Valverde-Barrantes, Oscar J Baraloto, Christopher
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The New phytologist
Forest fungal communities are shaped by the interactions between host tree root systems and the associated soil conditions. We investigated how the soil environment, root morphological traits, and root chemistry influence root-inhabiting fungal communities in three tropical forest sites of varying successional status in Xishuangbanna, China. For 15...
Pu, Zitian Zhang, Ruifang Wang, Hong Li, Qingyun Zhang, Jianheng Wang, Xin-Xin
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Frontiers in Plant Science
Trait plasticity and integration mediate vegetable adaptive strategies. However, it is unclear how patterns of vegetables in root traits influence vegetable adaptation to different phosphorus (P) levels. Nine root traits and six shoot traits were investigated in 12 vegetable species cultivated in a greenhouse with low and high P supplies to identif...
Tang, Xiaoyan Wu, Zhengwu Hu, Siliu Chen, Guangdeng Huang, Rong Wu, Yingjie Li, Bing Tao, Qi Jin, Kemo Wang, Changquan
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Frontiers in Plant Science
How crop domestication mediates root functional traits and trait plasticity in response to neighboring plants is unclear, but it is important for selecting potential species to be grown together to facilitate P uptake. We grew two barley accessions representing a two-stage domestication process as a sole crop or mixed with faba bean under low and h...
Gagliardi, Stephanie Avelino, Jacques Fulthorpe, Roberta Virginio Filho, Elias de Melo Isaac, Marney
Global climate change is increasing pest and pathogen pressures on plant communities, deteriorating optimal plant functioning. In plant communities, root functional trait expression and microbial communities are important indicators of plant functioning belowground, and, when confronted with pathogens aboveground, can simultaneously reflect plant d...
Zhu, Shi Chen Liu, Wen Shen Chen, Zi Wu Liu, Xiao Rui Zheng, Hong Xiang Chen, Bo Yu Zhi, Xin Yu Chao, Yuanqing Qiu, Rong Liang Chu, Chengjin
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An increasing number of studies have shown how feedback interactions between plants and soil can influence primary and secondary succession. However, very little is known about the patterns and mechanisms of such plant-soil feedbacks on stressed mine tailings ecosystem, which can be severely contaminated by a range of toxic elements. In a two-phase...
Chao, Lin Liu, Yanyan Zhang, Weidong Wang, Qingkui Guan, Xin Yang, Qingpeng Chen, Longchi Zhang, Jianbing Hu, Baoqing Liu, Zhanfeng
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Living roots and their rhizodeposits can accelerate or decelerate the decomposition of soil organic matter which refers to the rhizosphere priming effect (RPE). However, whereas plant traits are thought to be key factors controlling the RPE, little is known about how root traits representative of plant biomass allocation, morphology, architecture, ...
Duan, Mengcheng Li, Liang Ding, Gaigai Ma, Zeqing
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Tree physiology
When it comes to root and mycorrhizal associations that define resource acquisition strategy, there is a need to identify the leading dimension across root physiology, morphology, architecture and whole plant biomass allocation to better predict the plant's responses to multiple environmental constraints. Here, we developed a new framework for unde...
March-Salas, Martí Scheepens, J. F. van Kleunen, Mark Fitze, Patrick S.
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Frontiers in Plant Science
Climate forecasts show that in many regions the temporal distribution of precipitation events will become less predictable. Root traits may play key roles in dealing with changes in precipitation predictability, but their functional plastic responses, including transgenerational processes, are scarcely known. We investigated root trait plasticity o...
