Plants often face successive drought or flooding episodes and have to continuously adjust the capacity of their roots to take up soil water. This article shows that a comprehensive understanding of root architecture and hydraulics as a whole (in other terms, root hydraulic architecture) is needed to apprehend the strategies used by plants to optimize water uptake and possibly improve crops regarding this crucial trait.

Christophe Maurel, Philippe Nacry (Jul 2020)
Root architecture and hydraulics converge for acclimation to changing water availability.
Nat. Plants6(7):744-749 [doi] [Abstract] [PubMed]