Salt stress shifts wild tomato root systems toward transport efficiency along a gravitropism-constrained Pareto front
Aaron Garza, Kathryn Altman, Alleen Koenig, Kendall Richards, Maryam Rahmati Ishka, Guillaume Lobet, Magdalena Julkowska, Arjun Chandrasekhar
The paper models how salt stress alters root system architecture in wild tomatoes by incorporating lateral-root curvature and identifies a heritable genetic locus associated with transport efficiency.
bioRxiv · Jul 17, 2026 · PreprintPlant Biology