@article{5d5dc8f1997f4ff297c79cc61a46264c,
title = "Shaping 3D Root System Architecture",
abstract = "Plants are sessile organisms rooted in one place. The soil resources that plants require are often distributed in a highly heterogeneous pattern. To aid foraging, plants have evolved roots whose growth and development are highly responsive to soil signals. As a result, 3D root architecture is shaped by myriad environmental signals to ensure resource capture is optimised and unfavourable environments are avoided. The first signals sensed by newly germinating seeds — gravity and light — direct root growth into the soil to aid seedling establishment. Heterogeneous soil resources, such as water, nitrogen and phosphate, also act as signals that shape 3D root growth to optimise uptake. Root architecture is also modified through biotic interactions that include soil fungi and neighbouring plants. This developmental plasticity results in a {\textquoteleft}custom-made{\textquoteright} 3D root system that is best adapted to forage for resources in each soil environment that a plant colonises.",
author = "Morris, {Emily C.} and Marcus Griffiths and Agata Golebiowska and Stefan Mairhofer and Jasmine Burr-Hersey and Tatsuaki Goh and {von Wangenheim}, Daniel and Brian Atkinson and Sturrock, {Craig J.} and Lynch, {Jonathan P.} and Kris Vissenberg and Karl Ritz and Wells, {Darren M.} and Mooney, {Sacha J.} and Bennett, {Malcolm J.}",
note = "Funding Information: The authors would like to acknowledge the following funding agencies for financial support: E.C.M., S.M., D.v.W, J.P.L., K.R., D.M.W., S.J.M. and M.J.B. thank the Biological and Biotechnology Science Research Council (BBSRC) for supporting Doctoral Training, Future Leaders, responsive mode and Professorial Fellowship awards; M.G., S.M., B.A., C.J.S., J.P.L., D.M.W., S.J.M. and M.J.B. thank the European Research Council (ERC) for FUTUREROOTS project funding; the University of Nottingham supporting the {\textquoteleft}Future Food{\textquoteright} Beacon of Excellence award; the Research Foundation Flanders (G009412N, G.0.602.11.N.10, G.0656.13N and 1.5.091.11.N.00) and the University of Antwerp (BOF-DOCPRO4) to A.G. and K.V.; D.v.W. received funding from the People Programme (Marie Curie Actions) of the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013) under REA grant agreement n° [291734]; and the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) to T.G. and M.J.B.; J.B.-H. acknowledges support from the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) and BBSRC funded Soils Training And Research Studentships Centre for Doctoral Training and Research Programme, Grant Ref NE/M009106/1. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2017 Elsevier Ltd",
year = "2017",
month = sep,
day = "11",
doi = "10.1016/j.cub.2017.06.043",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "27",
pages = "R919--R930",
journal = "Current Biology",
issn = "0960-9822",
publisher = "Cell Press",
number = "17",
}