TY  - JOUR
AU  - Tracy, Saoirse R.
AU  - Nagel, Kerstin A.
AU  - Postma, Johannes A.
AU  - Fassbender, Heike
AU  - Wasson, Anton
AU  - Watt, Michelle
TI  - Crop Improvement from Phenotyping Roots: Highlights Reveal Expanding Opportunities
JO  - Trends in plant science
VL  - 25
IS  - 1
SN  - 1360-1385
CY  - Amsterdam [u.a.]
PB  - Elsevier Science
M1  - FZJ-2019-06102
SP  - 105-118
PY  - 2020
AB  - Root systems determine the water and nutrients for photosynthesis and harvested products, underpinning agricultural productivity. We highlight 11 programs that integrated root traits into germplasm for breeding, relying on phenotyping. Progress was successful but slow. Today’s phenotyping technologies will speed up root trait improvement. They combine multiple new alleles in germplasm for target environments, in parallel. Roots and shoots are detected simultaneously and nondestructively, seed to seed measures are automated, and field and laboratory technologies are increasingly linked. Available simulation models can aid all phenotyping decisions. This century will see a shift from single root traits to rhizosphere selections that can be managed dynamically on farms and a shift to phenotype-based improvement to accommodate the dynamic complexity of whole crop systems.
LB  - PUB:(DE-HGF)16
C6  - pmid:31806535
UR  - <Go to ISI:>//WOS:000503380300011
DO  - DOI:10.1016/j.tplants.2019.10.015
UR  - https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/867462
ER  -