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@INPROCEEDINGS{Kant:1037327,
      author       = {Kant, Josefine and Ehrlich, Tanja and Nagel, Kerstin and
                      Arsova, Borjana},
      title        = {{R}hizotrons for {WISH}-{ROOTS}- foraging root traits for
                      healthier soils},
      reportid     = {FZJ-2025-00646},
      pages        = {130},
      year         = {2024},
      abstract     = {WISH-ROOTS (Wheat Improving Soil Health through Root
                      traits) is an interdisciplinary project aiming to identify
                      wheat root traits to improve nitrogen use efficiency and
                      soil health, including microbiome diversity $\&$ functions
                      as well as soil physical properties. The morphological and
                      functional root traits of wheat landraces can conserve and
                      improve the targeted soil health markers. Introducing these
                      beneficial traits into modern, high-yielding wheat cultivars
                      might contribute to sustaining and restoring agricultural
                      soils for future yield production. Bread wheat and durum
                      wheat lines contrasting in root architecture, inhibition of
                      nitrification rate, or soil characteristics have been
                      chosen. Theseselected lines and their effect on the
                      surrounding soil are being analysed in parallel field trials
                      conducted by the seven partners and in controlled
                      environment experiments.The 20 selected lines were grown in
                      rhizotrons in the new rhizotron facility of
                      Forschungszentrum Jülich, GrowScreen-Rhizo III. This
                      platform allowed daily imaging of shoot and root system, and
                      watering to weight. The plants were grown in a mixture of
                      peat soil and field soil from the field trial station. At
                      harvest, shoots, roots, and rhizosphere soil for microbial
                      analysis were collected. Initial analysis of root growth
                      showed large differences between bread and durum lines,
                      including seedling vigour and root growth rate being larger
                      in durum wheat lines. In addition, within bread and within
                      durum lines differences were found concerning total root
                      length, root angle, and lateral root formation. Subsequent
                      rhizotron experiments will contain more genotypes allowing
                      first time phenotyping of dozens of landraces. (EJP-SOIL
                      project WISH-ROOTS, Förderkennzeichen 031B1263)},
      month         = {Jun},
      date          = {2024-06-02},
      organization  = {International Society of Root Research
                       12th International Symposium Roots
                       $[\&$ Roads] to a sustainable future,
                       Leipzig (Germany), 2 Jun 2024 - 7 Jun
                       2024},
      cin          = {IBG-2},
      cid          = {I:(DE-Juel1)IBG-2-20101118},
      pnm          = {2171 - Biological and environmental resources for
                      sustainable use (POF4-217)},
      pid          = {G:(DE-HGF)POF4-2171},
      typ          = {PUB:(DE-HGF)8},
      url          = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/1037327},
}