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Comparison of canopy temperature-based water stress indices for maize by DeJonge, Kendall C., Taghvaeian, Saleh, Trout, Thomas J., Comas, Louise H.

“…•We evaluated canopy temperature on six deficit irrigation treatments of corn.•Corn canopy temperature was highly correlated with midday leaf water…”
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Root traits contributing to plant productivity under drought by Comas, Louise H, Becker, Steven R, Cruz, Von Mark V, Byrne, Patrick F, Dierig, David A

“…Geneticists and breeders are positioned to breed plants with root traits that improve productivity under drought. However, a better understanding of root…”
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Plant strategies for maximizing growth during water stress and subsequent recovery in Solanum melongena L. (eggplant) by Delfin, Evelyn F, Drobnitch, Sarah Tepler, Comas, Louise H

“…Climate change is projected to increase the incidence of severe drought in many regions, potentially requiring selection for different traits in crop species…”
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Patterns in root traits of woody species hosting arbuscular and ectomycorrhizas: implications for the evolution of belowground strategies by Comas, Louise H., Callahan, Hilary S., Midford, Peter E.

“…Root traits vary enormously among plant species but we have little understanding of how this variation affects their functioning. Of central interest is how…”
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High N availability decreases N uptake and yield under limited water availability in maize by Flynn, Nora E., Comas, Louise H., Stewart, Catherine E., Fonte, Steven J.

“…Water and nitrogen (N) are the most limiting factors to plant productivity globally, but we lack a critical understanding of how water availability impacts N…”
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Embolized Stems Recover Overnight in Zea mays : The Role of Soil Water, Root Pressure, and Nighttime Transpiration by Gleason, Sean M, Wiggans, Dustin R, Bliss, Clayton A, Young, Jason S, Cooper, Mitchell, Willi, Katie R, Comas, Louise H

“…It is not currently well-understood how much xylem conductance is lost in maize plants during the day, if conductance is recovered during the night, or what…”
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Drought-Induced Root Pressure in Sorghum bicolor by Drobnitch, Sarah Tepler, Comas, Louise H, Flynn, Nora, Ibarra Caballero, Jorge, Barton, Ryan W, Wenz, Joshua, Person, Taylor, Bushey, Julie, Jahn, Courtney E, Gleason, Sean M

“…Root pressure, also manifested as profusive sap flowing from cut stems, is a phenomenon in some species that has perplexed biologists for much of the last…”
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Limited linkages of aboveground and belowground phenology: A study in grape by Radville, Laura, Bauerle, Taryn L., Comas, Louise H., Marchetto, Katherine A., Lakso, Alan N., Smart, David R., Dunst, Richard M., Eissenstat, David M.

“…PREMISE OF THE STUDY: Plant phenology influences resource utilization, carbon fluxes, and interspecific interactions. Although controls on aboveground…”
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Exploring plant root traits and fungal interactions governing plant community structure: re‐focusing long standing questions by Comas, Louise H.

“…This article is a Commentary on Li et al., 216: 1140–1150…”
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Root traits as drivers of plant and ecosystem functioning: current understanding, pitfalls and future research needs by Freschet, Grégoire T., Roumet, Catherine, Comas, Louise H., Weemstra, Monique, Bengough, A. Glyn, Rewald, Boris, Bardgett, Richard D., De Deyn, Gerlinde B., Johnson, David, Klimešová, Jitka, Lukac, Martin, McCormack, M. Luke, Meier, Ina C., Pagès, Loïc, Poorter, Hendrik, Prieto, Iván, Wurzburger, Nina, Zadworny, Marcin, Bagniewska‐Zadworna, Agnieszka, Blancaflor, Elison B., Brunner, Ivano, Gessler, Arthur, Hobbie, Sarah E., Iversen, Colleen M., Mommer, Liesje, Picon‐Cochard, Catherine, Postma, Johannes A., Rose, Laura, Ryser, Peter, Scherer‐Lorenzen, Michael, Soudzilovskaia, Nadejda A., Sun, Tao, Valverde‐Barrantes, Oscar J., Weigelt, Alexandra, York, Larry M., Stokes, Alexia

“…Summary The effects of plants on the biosphere, atmosphere and geosphere are key determinants of terrestrial ecosystem functioning. However, despite…”
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A starting guide to root ecology: strengthening ecological concepts and standardising root classification, sampling, processing and trait measurements by Freschet, Grégoire T., Pagès, Loïc, Iversen, Colleen M., Comas, Louise H., Rewald, Boris, Roumet, Catherine, Klimešová, Jitka, Zadworny, Marcin, Poorter, Hendrik, Postma, Johannes A., Adams, Thomas S., Bagniewska‐Zadworna, Agnieszka, Bengough, A. Glyn, Blancaflor, Elison B., Brunner, Ivano, Cornelissen, Johannes H. C., Garnier, Eric, Gessler, Arthur, Hobbie, Sarah E., Meier, Ina C., Mommer, Liesje, Picon‐Cochard, Catherine, Rose, Laura, Ryser, Peter, Scherer‐Lorenzen, Michael, Soudzilovskaia, Nadejda A., Stokes, Alexia, Sun, Tao, Valverde‐Barrantes, Oscar J., Weemstra, Monique, Weigelt, Alexandra, Wurzburger, Nina, York, Larry M., Batterman, Sarah A., Gomes de Moraes, Moemy, Janeček, Štěpán, Lambers, Hans, Salmon, Verity, Tharayil, Nishanth, McCormack, M. Luke

“…Summary In the context of a recent massive increase in research on plant root functions and their impact on the environment, root ecologists currently face…”
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USDA-ARS Colorado maize growth and development, yield and water-use under strategic timing of irrigation, 2012–2013 by Comas, Louise H., Trout, Thomas J., Banks, Garrett T., Zhang, Huihui, DeJonge, Kendall C., Gleason, Sean M.

“…This data set was collected over two years, 2012–2013, on maize under 12 irrigation treatments with varying levels of deficit during late-vegetative and…”
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Estimating maize water stress by standard deviation of canopy temperature in thermal imagery by Han, Ming, Zhang, Huihui, DeJonge, Kendall C., Comas, Louise H., Trout, Thomas J.

“…•Evaluated canopy temperature standard deviation (CTSD) from a thermal image for crop water stress detection.•Developed a new method to extract canopy…”
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Growth and grain yield of eight maize hybrids are aligned with water transport, stomatal conductance, and photosynthesis in a semi‐arid irrigated system by Gleason, Sean M., Nalezny, Lauren, Hunter, Cameron, Bensen, Robert, Chintamanani, Satya, Comas, Louise H.

“…There is increasing interest in understanding how trait networks can be manipulated to improve the performance of crop species. Working towards this goal, we…”
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Climate, soil and plant functional types as drivers of global fine-root trait variation by Freschet, Grégoire T., Valverde-Barrantes, Oscar J., Tucker, Caroline M., Craine, Joseph M., McCormack, M. Luke, Violle, Cyrille, Fort, Florian, Blackwood, Christopher B., Urban-Mead, Katherine R., Iversen, Colleen M., Bonis, Anne, Comas, Louise H., Cornelissen, Johannes H. C., Dong, Ming, Guo, Dali, Hobbie, Sarah E., Holdaway, Robert J., Kembel, Steven W., Makita, Naoki, Onipchenko, Vladimir G., Picon-Cochard, Catherine, Reich, Peter B., de la Riva, Enrique G., Smith, Stuart W., Soudzilovskaia, Nadejda A., Tjoelker, Mark G., Wardle, David A., Roumet, Catherine

“…1. Ecosystem functioning relies heavily on below-ground processes, which are largely regulated by plant fine-roots and their functional traits. However, our…”
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Linking fine root morphology, hydraulic functioning and shade tolerance of trees by Zadworny, Marcin, Comas, Louise H, Eissenstat, David M

“…Abstract Background and Aims Understanding root traits and their trade-off with other plant processes is important for understanding plant functioning in…”
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Searching for mechanisms driving root pressure in Zea mays—a transcriptomic approach by Drobnitch, Sarah Tepler, Wenz, Joshua, Gleason, Sean M., Comas, Louise H.

“…While there are many theories and a variety of innovative datasets contributing to our understanding of the mechanism generating root pressure in vascular…”
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Linking fine root lifespan to root chemical and morphological traits-A global analysis by Hou, Jiawen, McCormack, M Luke, Reich, Peter B, Sun, Tao, Phillips, Richard P, Lambers, Hans, Chen, Han Y H, Ding, Yiyang, Comas, Louise H, Valverde-Barrantes, Oscar J, Solly, Emily F, Freschet, Gregoire T

“…Fine root lifespan is a critical trait associated with contrasting root strategies of resource acquisition and protection. Yet, its position within the…”
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Deficit irrigation impacts on greenhouse gas emissions under drip‐fertigated maize in the Great Plains of Colorado by Flynn, Nora E., Stewart, Catherine E., Comas, Louise H., Del Grosso, Stephen J., Schnarr, Cassandra, Schipanski, Meagan, von Fischer, Joseph C., Stuchiner, Emily R., Fonte, Steven J.

“…Precise water and fertilizer application can increase crop water productivity and reduce agricultural contributions to greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions…”
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Drought conditioning of rhizosphere microbiome influences maize water use traits by Carter, Kelsey R., Nachtsheim, Abigael C., Dickman, L. Turin, Moore, Eric R., Negi, Sangeeta, Heneghan, John P., Sabella, Anthony J., Steadman, Christina R., Albright, Michaeline B. N., Anderson-Cook, Christine M., Comas, Louise H., Harris, Rose J., Heikoop, Jeffrey M., Lubbers, Nicholas, Marina, Oana C., Musa, Dea, Newman, Brent D., Perkins, George B., Twary, Scott, Yeager, Chris M., Sevanto, Sanna

“…Background and Aims Beneficial plant–microbe interactions can improve plant performance under drought; however, we know less about how drought-induced shifts…”
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