Wheat shovelomics II: Revealing relationships between root crown traits and crop growth
Shaunagh Slack, Larry M. York, Yadgar Roghazai, Jonathan Lynch, Malcolm Bennett, John Foulkes
The paper uses shovelomics to analyze root traits in wheat, finding that nodal root angle and root number per shoot correlate with yield under drought conditions.
bioRxiv · Mar 13, 2018 · PreprintPlant Biology