The root system of rice (Oryza sativa L.) is a central determinant of stress resilience and yield, functioning in resource acquisition, anchorage, and environmental sensing. This review synthesizes recent advances in understanding how the gaseous hor...
Soil compaction is a major constraint on global agriculture productivity. It disrupts soil structure, reduces soil porosity and fertility, and increases mechanical impedance, thereby restricting root growth and crop yield. Recent studies on rice (Ory...
Root growth and development is an important indicator of root-zone hypoxia tolerance in rice. Melatonin has been suggested to function as a crucial regulator in modulating root growth and improving plant abiotic stress resistance. To explore the role...
Soil salinity is a critical problem for rice production and is also often associated with phosphors (P) deficiency. Plant hormones, like brassinosteroids, were shown to play a role in plant responses to different stresses and are also expected to mit...
Bacteria play an important role in addressing challenges in rice production by promoting plant growth and enhancing stress tolerance through multiple mechanisms. Different types of soil bacteria affect rice growth by improving nutrient absorption, ma...
The underground reserve (root) has been an uncharted research territory with its untapped genetic variation yet to be exploited. Identifying ideal traits and breeding new rice varieties with efficient root system architecture (RSA) has great potentia...
Drought reduces soil moisture and impairs root function, posing a significant threat to rice production in arid regions. The influence of soil amendments on early rice root development under semi-dry cultivation remains insufficiently characterized,...
Straw return is an effective management practice for improving physical and chemical properties of saline–sodic soil in Northeast China. Straw decomposition and nutrient release are deeply influenced by soil and climatic factors. In Northeast C...
Sulfur (S) is an essential mineral nutrient required for plant growth and development. Plants usually face temporal and spatial variation in sulfur availability, including the heterogeneous sulfate content in soils. As sessile organisms, plants have...
Late spring cold is a disastrous weather condition that often affects early rice seedlings in southern China, limiting the promotion of direct seeding cultivation. However, there are few reports on the effect of these events and on the growth recover...
The interaction between plant roots and rhizobacterium communities plays a crucial role in sustainable agriculture. We aimed to assess the effects of Sphingobium yanoikuyae SJTF8 on rice seed germination and development, as well as to observe th...
Phosphate is an essential macro-element for plant growth accumulated in the topsoil. The improvement of phosphate uptake efficiency via manually manipulating root system architecture is of vital agronomic importance. This review discusses the molecul...
Nocturnal root and meristem temperature (RMT) can have a strong effect on rice growth and yield. However, underlying mechanisms are not well understood. To investigate the effects of night-time RMT on photosynthesis biomass allocation and activities...
Nitrogen (N) is an essential nutrient for plant growth and development. The root system architecture is a highly regulated morphological system, which is sensitive to the availability of nutrients, such as N. Phenotypic characterization of roots from...
The structure of endophytic bacteria is important to plant health and stress tolerance, but little is known about the impacts of farming systems on temporal changes in diversity of endophytic bacteria. In this study, we investigated the endophytic mi...
With the escalating water scarcity in agriculture, a novel water-saving technique has emerged: drip irrigation with plastic film mulch (DI). Root function is crucial for sustaining rice production, and understanding its response to DI is essential. H...
Root network structure plays a crucial role in growth and development processes in rice. Longer, more branched root structures help plants to assimilate water and nutrition from soil, support robust plant growth, and improve resilience to stresses su...
Nitrogen is an important nutrient for plant growth and essential metabolic processes. Roots integrally obtain nutrients from soil and are closely related to the growth and development of plants. In this study, the morphological analysis of rice root...
Auxin regulates plant growth and development, as well as helps plants to survive abiotic stresses, but the effects of auxin on the growth of alkaline-stressed rice and the underlying molecular and physiological mechanisms remain unknown. Through exog...
Irrigation and fertilizer are two essential factors affecting rice root traits and yield. In this respect, a pot experiment was performed at the boro (dry season irrigated) season of 2021–2022 in the Department of Agronomy of Bangladesh Agricul...
In the eastern part of India, rice as the most vital staple food crop supports as well the livelihood security of a vast population. Rice is mostly grown under conventional flooded culture without proper nutrient management. Crop performance, water p...
The System of Rice Intensification (SRI), an agro-ecological approach to rice cultivation developed in Madagascar, has generated considerable interest worldwide. Having not been developed at a research establishment but rather from observation and te...
Root morphological and physiological traits play important roles in rice growth and yield formation. Rice–loach co-culture is an important integrated rice–aquaculture system, yet root responses under ditch-free co-culture conditions remai...
Drought is one of the major factors limiting rice yield worldwide. A total of 46 hybrid rice varieties were chosen to investigate their root distribution and their response to drought. A field experiment was carried out in a dry shed building to eval...
Incorporating oilseed-rape straw in soil is one of the effective methods for enhancing the use efficiency of agricultural resources in the rape-rice rotation system. However, the impacts of oilseed-rape straw incorporation on root growth and dynamic...
Methane (CH4), which is an important component of the greenhouse gases from paddy ecosystems, is a major contributor to climate change. CH4 emissions from paddy ecosystems are closely related to the rice root system; however, how the rice root system...
Changes in root traits and rhizosphere microbiome are important ways to optimize plant phosphorus (P) efficiency and promote multifunctionality in intercropping. However, whether and how synthetic microbial communities isolated from polyculture syste...
Mechanical transplanting often causes root damage to rice seedlings, but its yield impacts in double-cropping systems remain unclear. A two-year field experiment was conducted in early- and late-season rice under three root damage treatments: no dama...
Intercropping has the potential to improve phosphorus (P) uptake and crop growth, but the potential benefits and relative contributions of root morphology and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) colonization are largely unknown for the intercropping o...
The rhizosphere is a crucial interface that connects the soil and the roots of plants, playing a critical role in regulating soil biochemical functions and processes. Biochar, an increasingly common soil amendment, can directly or indirectly affect t...
Despite the growing knowledge concerning allelopathic interference with barnyard grass, little is understood regarding the competitive physiological mechanisms of the interaction between allelopathic rice and herbicide-resistant barnyard grass. A hyd...
The rice–ratoon rice cropping system has the advantages of saving labor and imparting economic benefits. Optimizing tillage and straw management is beneficial for improving ratoon rice growth and yield. In this study, field experiments were con...
In recent years, the alternating occurrence of high temperature and waterlogging disasters in South China has seriously reduced the yield of single cropping rice. Studying the changes in anatomical structure of the rice root system could provide theo...
Natural herbicide is considered as a sustainable approach for weed management in agriculture. Here, allelopathic activities of Piper betle L. extract (BE) and known allelochemical eugenol (EU) were studied against rice and associated weeds in terms o...
Background: Inoculation with Gluconacetobacter diazotrophicus has shown to influence root development in red rice plants, and more recently, the induced systemic tolerance (IST) response to drought was also demonstrated. The goal of this study was to...
Extreme weather and global warming are drastic agricultural issues causing water scarcity. Under these conditions, it is vital to select drought-tolerant hybrid super rice breeds to enhance the rice yield in dry areas. In the current study, a dry-she...
The morphological plasticity of plant roots is a key factor in their ability to tolerate a wide range of edaphic stresses. There are many unanswered questions relating to nanotechnology and its potential uses for sustainable agriculture. The main pur...
Nitrogen is an essential nutrient for plant growth and basic metabolic processes. Root systems play an important role in the ability of plants to obtain nutrients from the soil, and are closely related to the growth and development of above-ground pl...
Straw and biochar incorporation are sustainable soil improvement practices to enhance crop productivity. However, the responses of japonica rice to these organic amendments under different planting modes remain unclear in cold regions. A pot experime...
The root is the main site of nitrogen (N) acquisition and aluminum (Al) toxicity. The objective of this study is to investigate whether liming and cultivation of an Al-tolerant rice (Oryza sativa L.) cultivar can improve root growth, thereby increasi...
Rice, one of the global staple food crops, is significantly affected in its growth by cadmium (Cd) contamination in soil. This study comprehensively investigated the impact of Cd stress on the root exudates and rhizospheric soil microorganisms of ric...
Despite our preliminary research about the inductive effect of exogenous abscisic acid (ABA) on the weed-suppressive activity of rice in a hydroponic system, there is a lack of knowledge regarding the induction mechanism for ABA application to enhanc...
Irrigated rice production is one of the most essential agricultural activities for sustaining our global population, and at the same time, one of the agricultural sectors considered most eco-unfriendly. This is because it consumes a larger share of a...
Rice (Oryza sativa L.) is a salt-sensitive crop, where even moderate soil salinity (electrical conductivity ≥ 3.5 dS/m) can cause significant yield reduction. During the seedling stage, the underdeveloped root system has limited capacity for salt...
After changes in tillage on croplands, it is necessary to assess the effects on soil organic carbon (SOC) dynamics in order to identify if soil is a sink or emitter of carbon to the atmosphere. This study was conducted in two plots of rice cultivatio...
Floods induce hypoxic stress and reduce wheat growth. On the other hand, rice is a semi-aquatic plant and usually grows even when partially submerged. To clarify the dynamic differences in the cellular mechanism between rice and wheat under flooding...
The vacuole is indispensable for cells to maintain their water potential and to respond to environmental changes. Nevertheless, investigations of vacuole morphology and its functions have been limited to Arabidopsis thaliana with few studies in the m...
Paddy fields are important anthropogenic emission sources of methane (CH4). However, it is not clear how rice root development and rhizosphere soil properties affect CH4 emissions. Therefore, we selected rice varieties with similar growth periods but...
The rapid development of new roots in transplanted rice (Oryza sativa L.) is crucial for shortening the returning green time of seedlings and accelerating tillering. Root regeneration plays an important role in enabling seedlings to resume normal gro...
The frequent occurrence of drought–flood abrupt alternation (DFAA) in Huaibei Plain has shown a great impact on local rice production. Pot experiments were performed in 2016–2018 to investigate the effects of co-occurring drought and flooding stresse...
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