Global climate is increasing maximum temperature, reducing minimum temperature and growing season rainfall, and changing the seasonal distribution of rainfall causing reduction in soil moisture while exacerbating heat waves. Apart from temperature and precipitation, atmospheric CO2 concentration is also increasing, and all these changes are increasing the incidence of soil warming, drought, and waterlogging, placing crop production and ecosystem management in difficult situations. The plant root system is the first and most sensitive target of climate change and its form and function are vulnerable to these changes. It is then critical to understand the role of the root system form and function on adaption to each of these changes and the interaction of all of them. In particular, how the form and function of the root system contribute to plant growth, development, and productivity under these stresses. There is an urgent need to gather information on recent knowledge of root system response and adaptation to the interaction of heat × drought × elevated CO2. Advanced technologies including high-throughput root phenotyping platform, root imaging and analyzing structural and functional root modeling, metabolomic, proteomic, and molecular analysis, provide powerful tools in addressing root system architecture, root growth dynamics, and root physiological processes and underlying molecular mechanisms under climate change.
We welcome original research, reviews, mini-reviews, and methods related to the following themes, but not limited to:
– Impacts of climate change on root structure and function
– Root adaptation to heat, drought and/or elevated CO2 stress
– Root-soil-microbe interactions under changing climates
– Molecular mechanisms and metabolisms
– Experimental vs simulation studies
Note: Descriptive studies will not be considered for review, unless they are expanded and provide insight into the biological system or process being studied
Global climate is increasing maximum temperature, reducing minimum temperature and growing season rainfall, and changing the seasonal distribution of rainfall causing reduction in soil moisture while exacerbating heat waves. Apart from temperature and precipitation, atmospheric CO2 concentration is also increasing, and all these changes are increasing the incidence of soil warming, drought, and waterlogging, placing crop production and ecosystem management in difficult situations. The plant root system is the first and most sensitive target of climate change and its form and function are vulnerable to these changes. It is then critical to understand the role of the root system form and function on adaption to each of these changes and the interaction of all of them. In particular, how the form and function of the root system contribute to plant growth, development, and productivity under these stresses. There is an urgent need to gather information on recent knowledge of root system response and adaptation to the interaction of heat × drought × elevated CO2. Advanced technologies including high-throughput root phenotyping platform, root imaging and analyzing structural and functional root modeling, metabolomic, proteomic, and molecular analysis, provide powerful tools in addressing root system architecture, root growth dynamics, and root physiological processes and underlying molecular mechanisms under climate change.
We welcome original research, reviews, mini-reviews, and methods related to the following themes, but not limited to:
– Impacts of climate change on root structure and function
– Root adaptation to heat, drought and/or elevated CO2 stress
– Root-soil-microbe interactions under changing climates
– Molecular mechanisms and metabolisms
– Experimental vs simulation studies
Note: Descriptive studies will not be considered for review, unless they are expanded and provide insight into the biological system or process being studied
