An international study headed by the University of Bonn has now demonstrated the important role of the plant root system in maize, a crop that can grow successfully in very different local conditions.

Common bean is an important component of global nutritional security. Climate change driven water deficit stress impairs crop performance by implicating both above and below ground plant parts in ...

Climate change stresses severely limit crop yields, with root traits playing a vital role in stress tolerance, thus highlighting the importance of root phenotyping for crop improvement. Recent ...

More frequent extreme rainfall has heightened the need to understand vegetation’s influence on slope stability in steep terrain. Among vegetation-related factors, root-system overlap, the intersection ...

Roots are important. We know that. A tree with few or shallow roots will not sustain the tree as it grows tall. That tall tree with all those green leaves may not be as solid as expected. In fact, in ...