Dynamic root growth in response to depth-varying soil moisture availability: a rhizobox study

Maan, Cynthia; ten Veldhuis, Marie-Claire; van de Wiel, Bas J. H.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-27-2341-2023

Articles | Volume 27, issue 12

https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-27-2341-2023

© Author(s) 2023. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-27-2341-2023

© Author(s) 2023. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 27, issue 12

Research article

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29 Jun 2023

Research article |

| 29 Jun 2023

Dynamic root growth in response to depth-varying soil moisture availability: a rhizobox study

Cynthia Maan, Marie-Claire ten Veldhuis, and Bas J. H. van de Wiel

Supplement

https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-27-2341-2023-supplement

Data sets

Roots follow Moisture, data underlying the publication: Dynamic root growth in response to depth-varying soil moisture availability: a rhizobox study, Version 1 C. Maan https://doi.org/10.4121/19513957

Model code and software

Roots follow Moisture, data underlying the publication: Dynamic root growth in response to depth-varying soil moisture availability: a rhizobox study, Version 1 C. Maan https://doi.org/10.4121/19513957

Short summary

Their flexible growth provides the plants with a strong ability to adapt and develop resilience to droughts and climate change. But this adaptability is badly included in crop and climate models. To model plant development in changing environments, we need to include the survival strategies of plants. Based on experimental data, we set up a simple model for soil-moisture-driven root growth. The model performance suggests that soil moisture is a key parameter determining root growth.