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Plant roots sense soil compaction through restricted ethylene diffusion (2021)
Journal Article

© 2021 The Authors, some rights reserved. Soil compaction represents a major challenge for modern agriculture. Compaction is intuitively thought to reduce root growth by limiting the ability of roots to penetrate harder soils. We report that root gro... Read More about Plant roots sense soil compaction through restricted ethylene diffusion.

Preparation, Scanning and Analysis of Duckweed Using X-Ray Computed Microtomography (2021)
Journal Article

© Copyright © 2021 Jones, Atkinson, Ware, Sturrock, Bishopp and Wells. Quantification of anatomical and compositional features underpins both fundamental and applied studies of plant structure and function. Relatively few non-invasive techniques are... Read More about Preparation, Scanning and Analysis of Duckweed Using X-Ray Computed Microtomography.

The role of sodium chloride in the sensory and physico-chemical properties of sweet biscuits (2021)
Journal Article

© 2021 Salt is included in many foods which consumers do not regard as salty. This “hidden-salt” may offer functional benefits but is often overlooked in sodium reduction strategies. This study investigated its role in shortbread-like sweet biscuits... Read More about The role of sodium chloride in the sensory and physico-chemical properties of sweet biscuits.

The Importance of Anatomy (2020)
Journal Article

Anatomy is the knowledge about the structure of the bodies of animals and people. This includes information about blood vessels, organs, the skeleton, and nerves. But have you ever wondered where the anatomical information in science books and websit... Read More about The Importance of Anatomy.

Discovery of os cordis in the cardiac skeleton of chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) (2020)
Journal Article

© 2020, The Author(s). Cardiovascular diseases, especially idiopathic myocardial fibrosis, is one of the most significant causes of morbidity and mortality in captive great apes. This study compared the structure and morphology of 16 hearts from chim... Read More about Discovery of os cordis in the cardiac skeleton of chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes).

Impact of fruit orientation and pelleting material on water uptake and germination performance in artificial substrate for sugar beet (2020)
Journal Article

© 2020 Blunk et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are cred... Read More about Impact of fruit orientation and pelleting material on water uptake and germination performance in artificial substrate for sugar beet.

Three Dimensional Root CT Segmentation Using Multi-Resolution Encoder-Decoder Networks (2020)
Journal Article

© 1992-2012 IEEE. We address the complex problem of reliably segmenting root structure from soil in X-ray Computed Tomography (CT) images. We utilise a deep learning approach, and propose a state-of-the-art multi-resolution architecture based on enco... Read More about Three Dimensional Root CT Segmentation Using Multi-Resolution Encoder-Decoder Networks.

Detection and quantification of pore, solid and gravel spaces in CT images of a 3D soil sample (2020)
Journal Article

© 2020 Elsevier Inc. In this study, we scanned the core of a cylindrical soil sample (60mm diameter and 100mm height) by X-ray Computed Tomography (CT) producing 300 consecutive 2D digital images with 16-bit gray level depth and a resolution of 32 mi... Read More about Detection and quantification of pore, solid and gravel spaces in CT images of a 3D soil sample.

Strigolactones control root system architecture and tip anatomy in solanum lycopersicum l. Plants under p starvation (2020)
Journal Article

© 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. The hormones strigolactones accumulate in plant roots under phosphorus (P) shortage, inducing variations in plant phenotype. In this study, we aimed at understanding whether strigolactones con... Read More about Strigolactones control root system architecture and tip anatomy in solanum lycopersicum l. Plants under p starvation.

CEP receptor signalling controls root system architecture in Arabidopsis and Medicago (2020)
Journal Article

© 2020 The Authors. New Phytologist © 2020 New Phytologist Trust Root system architecture (RSA) influences the effectiveness of resources acquisition from soils but the genetic networks that control RSA remain largely unclear. We used rhizoboxes, X-r... Read More about CEP receptor signalling controls root system architecture in Arabidopsis and Medicago.

Mesophyll porosity is modulated by the presence of functional stomata (2019)
Journal Article

The formation of stomata and leaf mesophyll airspace must be coordinated to establish an efficient and robust network that facilitates gas exchange for photosynthesis, however the mechanism by which this coordinated development occurs remains unclear... Read More about Mesophyll porosity is modulated by the presence of functional stomata.

Physics of animal health: on the mechano-biology of hoof growth and form (2019)
Journal Article

Global inequalities in economic access and agriculture productivity imply that a large number of developing countries rely on working equids for transport/agriculture/mining. Therefore, the understanding of hoof conditions/shape variations affecting... Read More about Physics of animal health: on the mechano-biology of hoof growth and form.

Emergent Protective Organogenesis in Date Palms: A Morpho-devo-dynamic Adaptive Strategy During Early Development (2019)
Journal Article

Desert plants have developed mechanisms for adapting to hostile desert conditions, yet these mechanisms remain poorly understood. Here, we describe two unique modes used by desert date palms (Phoenix dactylifera L.) to protect their meristematic tiss... Read More about Emergent Protective Organogenesis in Date Palms: A Morpho-devo-dynamic Adaptive Strategy During Early Development.

The Anatomy, Histology and Physiology of the Healthy and Lame Equine Hoof (2019)
Book Chapter

Satisfactory investigations of the equine foot appear to be limited by the histomorphological complexity of internal hoof structures. Foot lameness is considered to be one of the most debilitating pathological disorders of the equine foot. In most sp... Read More about The Anatomy, Histology and Physiology of the Healthy and Lame Equine Hoof.

The role of plant species and soil condition in the structural development of the rhizosphere (2019)
Journal Article

© 2019 The Authors Plant, Cell & Environment Published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd Roots naturally exert axial and radial pressures during growth, which alter the structural arrangement of soil at the root–soil interface. However, empirical models s... Read More about The role of plant species and soil condition in the structural development of the rhizosphere.

X-ray microtomography to evaluate the efficacy of paraffin wax coating for soil bulk density evaluation (2018)
Journal Article

The paraffin-coated method is a well-used approach to measure the soil bulk density (BD). BD is a physical property of great importance for studies of soil quality and health. Therefore, representative measurements of this property are highly valued.... Read More about X-ray microtomography to evaluate the efficacy of paraffin wax coating for soil bulk density evaluation.

Investigating the microstructure of plant leaves in 3D with lab-based X-ray computed tomography (2018)
Journal Article

Background Leaf cellular architecture plays an important role in setting limits for carbon assimilation and, thus, photosynthetic performance. However, the low density, fine structure, and sensitivity to desiccation of plant tissue has presented c... Read More about Investigating the microstructure of plant leaves in 3D with lab-based X-ray computed tomography.

Seed priming enhances early growth and improves area of soil exploration by roots (2018)
Journal Article

Introduction: Seed priming has been conducted for centuries with growth advantages reported for a variety of different crops. Previous work has suggested priming does not offer a yield advantage despite an increased early growth if grown under ideal... Read More about Seed priming enhances early growth and improves area of soil exploration by roots.

Root architecture governs plasticity in response to drought (2018)
Journal Article

Aims Root characteristics are important for predicting plant and ecosystem responses to resource scarcity. Simple, categorical traits for roots could be broadly applied to ecosystem function and restoration experiments, but they need to be evaluated... Read More about Root architecture governs plasticity in response to drought.

The xerobranching response represses lateral root formation when roots are not in contact with water (2018)
Journal Article

© 2018 Elsevier Ltd Efficient soil exploration by roots represents an important target for crop improvement and food security [1, 2]. Lateral root (LR) formation is a key trait for optimizing soil foraging for crucial resources such as water and nutr... Read More about The xerobranching response represses lateral root formation when roots are not in contact with water.