"Plant Roots" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
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The usually underground portions of a plant that serve as support, store food, and through which water and mineral nutrients enter the plant. (From American Heritage Dictionary, 1982; Concise Dictionary of Biology, 1990)
| Descriptor ID |
D018517
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| MeSH Number(s) |
A18.400
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| Concept/Terms |
Plant Roots- Plant Roots
- Plant Root
- Root, Plant
- Roots, Plant
Plant Bulbs- Plant Bulbs
- Bulb, Plant
- Bulbs, Plant
- Plant Bulb
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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Plant Roots" by people in this website by year, and whether "Plant Roots" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2002 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2003 | 4 | 2 | 6 |
| 2004 | 3 | 3 | 6 |
| 2005 | 2 | 3 | 5 |
| 2006 | 0 | 5 | 5 |
| 2007 | 3 | 2 | 5 |
| 2008 | 2 | 3 | 5 |
| 2009 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 2010 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| 2011 | 1 | 4 | 5 |
| 2012 | 3 | 3 | 6 |
| 2013 | 5 | 2 | 7 |
| 2014 | 9 | 3 | 12 |
| 2015 | 5 | 3 | 8 |
| 2016 | 3 | 3 | 6 |
| 2017 | 7 | 3 | 10 |
| 2018 | 8 | 10 | 18 |
| 2019 | 5 | 6 | 11 |
| 2020 | 8 | 9 | 17 |
| 2021 | 5 | 5 | 10 |
| 2022 | 3 | 6 | 9 |
| 2023 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 2024 | 5 | 2 | 7 |
| 2025 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Plant Roots" by people in Profiles.
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Rangarajan H, Lynch JP. Did crop domestication change the fitness landscape of root response to soil mechanical impedance? An in silico analysis. Ann Bot. 2025 Dec 08; 136(5-6):997-1011.
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Lopez-Valdivia I, Vallebueno-Estrada M, Rangarajan H, Swarts K, Benz BF, Blake M, Sidhu JS, Perez-Limon S, Sawers RJH, Schneider H, Lynch JP. In silico analysis of the evolution of root phenotypes during maize domestication in Neolithic soils of Tehuac?n. New Phytol. 2025 Oct; 248(1):339-353.
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Sultana R, Jashim AII, Islam SMN, Rahman MH, Haque MM. Bacterial endophyte Pseudomonas mosselii PR5 improves growth, nutrient accumulation, and yield of rice (Oryza sativa L.) through various application methods. BMC Plant Biol. 2024 Oct 30; 24(1):1030.
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Mim MF, Chowdhury MZH, Rohman MM, Naz A, Bhuiyan AU, Mohi-Ud-Din M, Haque MA, Islam SMN. Metarhizium anisopliae (MetA1) seed priming improves photosynthesis, growth, plant defense and yield of wheat under drought stress. Plant Physiol Biochem. 2024 Dec; 217:109239.
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Sidhu JS, Lopez-Valdivia I, Strock CF, Schneider HM, Lynch JP. Cortical parenchyma wall width regulates root metabolic cost and maize performance under suboptimal water availability. J Exp Bot. 2024 Sep 27; 75(18):5750-5767.
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Klein SP, Kaeppler SM, Brown KM, Lynch JP. Integrating GWAS with a gene co-expression network better prioritizes candidate genes associated with root metaxylem phenes in maize. Plant Genome. 2024 Sep; 17(3):e20489.
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Pandit S, Srivastav AK, Sur TK, Chaudhuri S, Wang Y, Biswas TK. Effects of Withania somnifera Extract in Chronically Stressed Adults: A Randomized Controlled Trial. Nutrients. 2024 Apr 26; 16(9).
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Sidhu JS, Lynch JP. Cortical cell size regulates root metabolic cost. Plant J. 2024 Jun; 118(5):1343-1357.
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Galindo-Casta?eda T, Hartmann M, Lynch JP. Location: root architecture structures rhizosphere microbial associations. J Exp Bot. 2024 01 10; 75(2):594-604.
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Lopez-Valdivia I, Yang X, Lynch JP. Large root cortical cells and reduced cortical cell files improve growth under suboptimal nitrogen in silico. Plant Physiol. 2023 07 03; 192(3):2261-2275.