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Food: An underground revolution

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  • Virginia Gewin

    (Virginia Gewin is a freelance writer based in Portland, Oregon.)

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Plant breeders are turning their attention to roots to increase yields without causing environmental damage. Virginia Gewin unearths some promising subterranean strategies.

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  • Virginia Gewin, 2010. "Food: An underground revolution," Nature, Nature, vol. 466(7306), pages 552-553, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:466:y:2010:i:7306:d:10.1038_466552a
    DOI: 10.1038/466552a
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    1. P.K. Srivastava & M. Gupta & A. Pandey & V. Pandey & N. Singh & S.K. Tewari, 2014. "Effects of sodicity induced changes in soil physical properties on paddy root growth," Plant, Soil and Environment, Czech Academy of Agricultural Sciences, vol. 60(4), pages 165-169.
    2. Castañeda, Veronica & de la Peña, Marlon & Azcárate, Lidia & Aranjuelo, Iker & Gonzalez, Esther M., 2019. "Functional analysis of the taproot and fibrous roots of Medicago truncatula: Sucrose and proline catabolism primary response to water deficit," Agricultural Water Management, Elsevier, vol. 216(C), pages 473-483.
    3. Tron, Stefania & Bodner, Gernot & Laio, Francesco & Ridolfi, Luca & Leitner, Daniel, 2015. "Can diversity in root architecture explain plant water use efficiency? A modeling study," Ecological Modelling, Elsevier, vol. 312(C), pages 200-210.
    4. Opazo, Ismael & Toro, Guillermo & Salvatierra, Ariel & Pastenes, Claudio & Pimentel, Paula, 2020. "Rootstocks modulate the physiology and growth responses to water deficit and long-term recovery in grafted stone fruit trees," Agricultural Water Management, Elsevier, vol. 228(C).
    5. Laura Myrtiá Faní Stratópoulos & Chi Zhang & Karl-Heinz Häberle & Stephan Pauleit & Swantje Duthweiler & Hans Pretzsch & Thomas Rötzer, 2019. "Effects of Drought on the Phenology, Growth, and Morphological Development of Three Urban Tree Species and Cultivars," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 11(18), pages 1-15, September.

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