TY  - JOUR
AU  - Passot, Sixtine
AU  - Couvreur, Valentin
AU  - Meunier, Félicien
AU  - Draye, Xavier
AU  - Javaux, Mathieu
AU  - Leitner, Daniel
AU  - Pagès, Loïc
AU  - Schnepf, Andrea
AU  - Vanderborght, Jan
AU  - Lobet, Guillaume
TI  - Connecting the dots between computational tools to analyse soil-root water relations
JO  - The journal of experimental botany
VL  - 70
IS  - 9
SN  - 1460-2431
CY  - Oxford
PB  - Oxford Univ. Press
M1  - FZJ-2018-06326
SP  - 2345–2357
PY  - 2019
AB  - In recent years, many computational tools, such as image analysis, data management, process-based simulation, and upscaling tools, have been developed to help quantify and understand water flow in the soil–root system, at multiple scales (tissue, organ, plant, and population). Several of these tools work together or at least are compatible. However, for the uninformed researcher, they might seem disconnected, forming an unclear and disorganized succession of tools. In this article, we show how different studies can be further developed by connecting them to analyse soil–root water relations in a comprehensive and structured network. This ‘explicit network of soil–root computational tools’ informs readers about existing tools and helps them understand how their data (past and future) might fit within the network. We also demonstrate the novel possibilities of scale-consistent parameterizations made possible by the network with a set of case studies from the literature. Finally, we discuss existing gaps in the network and how we can move forward to fill them.
LB  - PUB:(DE-HGF)16
C6  - pmid:30329081
UR  - <Go to ISI:>//WOS:000469784900002
DO  - DOI:10.1093/jxb/ery361
UR  - https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/857058
ER  -