Anatomical traits associated with absorption and mycorrhizal colonization are linked to root branch order in twenty-three Chinese temperate tree species.

By Dali Guo, Mengxue Xia, Xing Wei, Wen-jing Chang, Y. Liu, Zheng-quan Wang. New Phytologist, 2008

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Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Global and Planetary Change, Plant Science

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Root Phenotyping for Drought Tolerance: A Review (2018, background): “Thus, it results in increased primary root development and suppression of lateral roots under moderate drought [153].”
Aboveground litter quality changes may drive soil organic carbon increase after shrub encroachment into mountain grasslands (2010, background): “Therefore, we note that there may be differences in additional root traits, such as root branching order, that may determine differences in root function (Guo et al. 2008; Comas and Eissenstat 2009) and thus in root recalcitrance and decomposition.”
N fertilization affects on soil respiration, microbial biomass and root respiration in Larix gmelinii and Fraxinus mandshurica plantations in China (2010, positive): “significantly alters the root environment and nutrient uptake process (Guo et al. 2008), it probably results in differences in root respiration compared to the actual root respiration in natural soil conditions.”
Towards a multidimensional root trait framework: a tree root review. (2016, background): “In addition, definitions of fine roots differ between studies: they may be based on diameter, order or functioning, which might lead to a bias towards certain categories (e.g. absorptive vs transport fine roots) (Pregitzer et al., 2002; Guo et al., 2008b; Gu et al., 2011; McCormack et al., 2015).”
The distribution of below‐ground traits is explained by intrinsic species differences and intraspecific plasticity in response to root neighbours (2013, result): “In contrast, previous studies have linked different root morphologies as adaptations to alternative soil properties (Taub & Goldberg 1996; Neatrour, Jones & Golladay 2007; Espeleta, West & Donovan 2009) or alternative mycorrhizal associations (Guo et al. 2008; Comas & Einssestat 2009).”
Chronic N deposition alters root respiration‐tissue N relationship in northern hardwood forests (2012, background): “Coarser roots with secondary development are known to not be involved in active uptake (Guo et al., 2008), but rather serve primarily as conduits for transport of water and nutrients (Wells & Eissenstat, 2003) and for anchorage and storage.”
A hyper‐arid environment shapes an inverse pattern of the fast–slow plant economics spectrum for above‐, but not below‐ground resource acquisition strategies (2018, background): “…relationship with RNC indicates that fast water transport by the stem is accompanied by fast fine root metabolism because high nitrogen content increases respiration rates (Guo et al., 2008), which in turn suggests that these traits are coordinated to have a fast rate of resource acquisition.”
Climate and soil nutrients differentially drive multidimensional fine root traits in ectomycorrhizal‐dominated alpine coniferous forests (2020, methodology): “The rate of mycorrhizal colonization was calculated as the percentage of the total number of roots examined in each plot that were colonized by ECM fungi (Guo et al., 2008).”
The world‐wide ‘fast–slow’ plant economics spectrum: a traits manifesto (2014, background): “…stems (Meinzer et al. 2010), the greater relative variation in size, order, age and architectural position of fine roots (Pregitzer et al. 2002; Guo et al. 2008) that is included in the measurements available in the literature (as compared to leaves, for which a narrow and standardized…”
Multiple phosphorus acquisition strategies adopted by fine roots in low-fertility soils in Central Amazonia (2019, background): “Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi form associations within root cortical cells only, and for this reason, root diameter does not necessarily represent an appropriate proxy for mycorrhizal colonisation (Brundrett 2002; Comas et al. 2014; Guo et al. 2008).”