Looking for Root Hairs to Overcome Poor Soils.

Breeding new cultivars allowing reduced fertilization and irrigation is a major challenge. International efforts towards this goal focus on noninvasive methodologies, platforms for high-throughput phenotyping of large plant populations, and quantitative description of root traits as predictors of crop performance in environments with limited water and nutrient availability. However, these high-throughput analyses ignore one crucial component of the root system: root hairs (RHs). Here, we review current knowledge on RH functions, mainly in the context of plant hydromineral nutrition, and take stock of quantitative genetics data pointing at correlations between RH traits and plant biomass production and yield components. Copyright © 2020 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

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Thanyakorn Rongsawat, Jean-Benoît Peltier, Jean-Christophe Boyer, Anne-Aliénor Véry, Hervé Sentenac. Looking for Root Hairs to Overcome Poor Soils. Trends in plant science. 2021 Jan;26(1):83-94

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