The article “Root RADAR: how ‘rhizocrine’signals allow roots to detect and respond to their soil environment and stresses,” published in Journal of Experimental Botany by the Hydrosensing team.
This article discusses how agricultural intensification and climate change are making soils more vulnerable to stresses such as drought, erosion, and compaction, and how roots detect and respond to these stresses by releasing hormone signals into the soil, which helps plants adapt and improve resilience through a proposed “root RADAR” mechanism.
Read the paper: Pandey, B. K., George, T. S., Cooper, H. V., Sturrock, C. J., Bennett, T., & Bennett, M. J. (2024). Root RADAR: how ‘rhizocrine’signals allow roots to detect and respond to their soil environment and stresses. Journal of Experimental Botany, erae490. https://doi.org/10.1093/jxb/erae490
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