How can you protect corn root health and improve your crop’s overall health and eventual yield? Learn about the threats to ...

Compaction is the hidden killer of root systems, and that can have a profound effect on soil health as well as crop performance, an audience at Groundswell heard. Surface compaction could reduce ...

Scientists have discovered how plants adapt their root systems in drought conditions to grow steeper into the soil to access deeper water reserves. Scientists have discovered how plants adapt ...

which is termed N-dependent root system architecture (RSA). For cultivated crops, the cultivation of an ideotype RSA, characterized by sensitive plasticity under diverse N conditions, is paramount ...

University of Queensland researchers have for the first time introduced genetic material into plants via their roots, opening a potential pathway for rapid crop improvement. The research is ...

Sound designer Jeff Rice recorded what this organism's vast root system sounds like in a rainstorm. The sounds are a deep, soothing rumble. Take a minute out of your busy day to listen and destress.