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Recent advances in methods for in situ root phenotyping

Roots assist plants in absorbing water and nutrients from soil. Thus, they are vital to the survival of nearly all land plants, considering that plants cannot move to seek optimal environmental conditions. Crop species with optimal root system are essential for future food security and key to improv...

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Autores principales: Li, Anchang, Zhu, Lingxiao, Xu, Wenjun, Liu, Liantao, Teng, Guifa
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: PeerJ Inc. 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9252182/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35795176
http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.13638
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author Li, Anchang
Zhu, Lingxiao
Xu, Wenjun
Liu, Liantao
Teng, Guifa
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description Roots assist plants in absorbing water and nutrients from soil. Thus, they are vital to the survival of nearly all land plants, considering that plants cannot move to seek optimal environmental conditions. Crop species with optimal root system are essential for future food security and key to improving agricultural productivity and sustainability. Root systems can be improved and bred to acquire soil resources efficiently and effectively. This can also reduce adverse environmental impacts by decreasing the need for fertilization and fresh water. Therefore, there is a need to improve and breed crop cultivars with favorable root system. However, the lack of high-throughput root phenotyping tools for characterizing root traits in situ is a barrier to breeding for root system improvement. In recent years, many breakthroughs in the measurement and analysis of roots in a root system have been made. Here, we describe the major advances in root image acquisition and analysis technologies and summarize the advantages and disadvantages of each method. Furthermore, we look forward to the future development direction and trend of root phenotyping methods. This review aims to aid researchers in choosing a more appropriate method for improving the root system.
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spelling pubmed-92521822022-07-05 Recent advances in methods for in situ root phenotyping Li, Anchang Zhu, Lingxiao Xu, Wenjun Liu, Liantao Teng, Guifa PeerJ Agricultural Science Roots assist plants in absorbing water and nutrients from soil. Thus, they are vital to the survival of nearly all land plants, considering that plants cannot move to seek optimal environmental conditions. Crop species with optimal root system are essential for future food security and key to improving agricultural productivity and sustainability. Root systems can be improved and bred to acquire soil resources efficiently and effectively. This can also reduce adverse environmental impacts by decreasing the need for fertilization and fresh water. Therefore, there is a need to improve and breed crop cultivars with favorable root system. However, the lack of high-throughput root phenotyping tools for characterizing root traits in situ is a barrier to breeding for root system improvement. In recent years, many breakthroughs in the measurement and analysis of roots in a root system have been made. Here, we describe the major advances in root image acquisition and analysis technologies and summarize the advantages and disadvantages of each method. Furthermore, we look forward to the future development direction and trend of root phenotyping methods. This review aims to aid researchers in choosing a more appropriate method for improving the root system. PeerJ Inc. 2022-07-01 /pmc/articles/PMC9252182/ /pubmed/35795176 http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.13638 Text en © 2022 Li et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, reproduction and adaptation in any medium and for any purpose provided that it is properly attributed. For attribution, the original author(s), title, publication source (PeerJ) and either DOI or URL of the article must be cited.
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Li, Anchang
Zhu, Lingxiao
Xu, Wenjun
Liu, Liantao
Teng, Guifa
Recent advances in methods for in situ root phenotyping
title Recent advances in methods for in situ root phenotyping
title_full Recent advances in methods for in situ root phenotyping
title_fullStr Recent advances in methods for in situ root phenotyping
title_full_unstemmed Recent advances in methods for in situ root phenotyping
title_short Recent advances in methods for in situ root phenotyping
title_sort recent advances in methods for in situ root phenotyping
topic Agricultural Science
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9252182/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35795176
http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.13638
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