Sacha J. Mooney

TL;DR: The prospects for continuing to reduce lodging risk through the selection of shorter genotypes may be limited and there does appear to be significant scope for increasing lodging resistance by strengthening the stem and the anchorage system by exploiting the wide genetic variation in these plant characters and through crop management decisions.

TL;DR: It is concluded that CT is well placed to contribute significantly to unravelling the complex interactions between roots and soil.

TL;DR: It is discovered that plant roots can sense microscale heterogeneity in water availability across their circumference, which causes dramatic differences in the patterning of tissues along this axis, which suggests that water availability is sensed and interpreted at the suborgan level and locally patterns a wide variety of developmental processes in the root.

TL;DR: The attributes and usefulness of different approaches (direct measurement, nutrient budgeting, risk assessment and modelling) to assess the efficacy of actions to mitigate sources and transport of nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) from agricultural land to water are compared.

TL;DR: The development of automatic root segmentation methods and software that view μCT data as a sequence of images through which root objects appear to move as the x-y cross sections are traversed along the z axis of the image stack are reported.