🌾 Onto the next one—New review from our #CRC1502 member Juan Baca Cabrera reveals that axial xylem conductance can limit root water uptake and that #drought-induced xylem adjustments enhance water conservation—key insights for breeding resilient crops.

#RootHydraulics

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Mucilage facilitates root water uptake under edaphic stress: first evidence at the plant scale AbstractBackground and Aims. Mucilage has been hypothesized to soften the gradients in matric potential at the root-soil interface, hereby facilitating roo

Exciting news: My paper is accepted!
Long-awaited evidence on how #root #mucilage helps plants maintain #water uptake and #transpiration in drying soils 🌍💧
#OpenAccess
#PlantScience #RootHydraulics #drought @annbot.bsky.social @botany.one

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A #root functional–structural model allows assessment of the effects of #waterdeficit on water & solute transport parameters
Fabrice Bauget @ProttoVirginia Christophe Pradal, Yann Boursiac & Christophe Maurel
#roothydraulics #xylem

https://bit.ly/3HTkJSu via @JXBot