Lettuce, a shallow-rooted crop, and Lactuca serriola, its wild progenitor, differ at QTL determining root architecture and deep soil water exploitation

By W. C. Johnson, L. Jackson, O. Ochoa, R. V. Wijk, J. Peleman, D. A. Clair, Richard W. Michelmore. Theoretical and Applied Genetics, 2000

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Impact of plant domestication on rhizosphere microbiome assembly and functions (2015, unknown): “…wild relatives have been used as sources of alleles to improve the ability of modern cultivars to withstand biotic and abiotic stresses in wheat (Nevo and Chen 2010; Budak et al. 2013; Placido et al. 2013), barley (Schmalenbach et al. 2008) and lettuce (Johnson et al. 2000; Simko et al. 2013).”
Drought tolerance improvement in crop plants: An integrated view from breeding to genomics (2008, background): “…al., 2002; Jiang et al., 2004; Verma et al., 2004); (iii) the ability of the roots to exploit deep soil moisture to meet evapotranspirational demand (Johnson et al., 2000; Nguyen et al., 2004); (iv) the limitation of water-use by reduction of leaf area and shortening of growth period (Anyia and…”
Diverse concepts of breeding for nitrogen use efficiency. A review (2017, background): “…efficiency in lettuce have included wild lettuce types which differ to a large extent from the cultivated lettuce with respect to above- and below-ground traits; e.g., sown wild lettuce has a long taproot while transplanted lettuce has a small root system (Johnson et al. 2000; Hartman et al. 2014).”