TY  - JOUR
AU  - Muller, Bertrand
AU  - Guédon, Yann
AU  - Passot, Sixtine
AU  - Lobet, Guillaume
AU  - Nacry, Philippe
AU  - Pagès, Loïc
AU  - Wissuwa, Matthias
AU  - Draye, Xavier
TI  - Lateral Roots: Random Diversity in Adversity
JO  - Trends in plant science
VL  - 24
IS  - 9
SN  - 1360-1385
CY  - Amsterdam [u.a.]
PB  - Elsevier Science
M1  - FZJ-2019-05611
SP  - 810 - 825
PY  - 2019
AB  - Lateral roots are essential for soil foraging and uptake of minerals and water. They feature a large morphological diversity that results from divergent primordia or root growth and development patterns. Besides a structured diversity, resulting from the hierarchical and developmental organization of root systems, there exists a random diversity, occurring between roots of similar age, of the same hierarchical order, and exposed to uniform conditions. The physiological bases and functional consequences of this random diversity are largely ignored. Here we review the evidence for such random diversity throughout the plant kingdom, present innovative approaches based on statistical modeling to account for such diversity, and set the list of its potential benefits in front of a variable and unpredictable soil environment.
LB  - PUB:(DE-HGF)16
C6  - pmid:31320193
UR  - <Go to ISI:>//WOS:000482180800006
DO  - DOI:10.1016/j.tplants.2019.05.011
UR  - https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/866521
ER  -