V. Couvreur

Root hydraulic properties: an exploration of their variability across scales

This paper reviews empirical studies on root hydraulic properties across scales, identifies factors influencing their variability, and highlights the importance of root system age and measurement conditions.

Evidence for a multicellular symplasmic water pumping mechanism across vascular plant roots

The paper demonstrates a multicellular symplasmic water pumping mechanism in vascular plant roots by incorporating solute concentration gradients into water flow models, resolving a long-standing enigma about water movement uphill of water potential gradients.

Connecting the dots between root cross-section images and modelling tools to create a high resolution root system hydraulic maps in Zea mays.

The paper uses root cross-section images and modeling tools to generate high-resolution hydraulic conductivity maps for maize root types.

Call for participation: Collaborative benchmarking of functional-structural root architecture models. The case of root water uptake.

The paper calls for collaborative benchmarking of functional-structural root architecture models to improve their accuracy and reliability in simulating root water uptake.

MARSHAL, a novel tool for virtual phenotyping of maize root system hydraulic architectures

The paper introduces MARSHAL, a tool for generating and analyzing maize root system hydraulic architectures, compatible with observations and useful for virtual breeding.

GRANAR, a new computational tool to better understand the functional importance of root anatomy

GRANAR generates digital root anatomical networks to estimate hydraulic properties and quantify anatomical influences on radial conductivity.

Connecting the dots between computational tools to analyse soil-root water relations

The paper presents a network of computational tools for analyzing soil-root water relations, showing how they can be connected to improve data interpretation and parameterization.