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Root Penetration Features

Root Penetration Features is a morphological construct in paleobotany that denotes diagnostic macroscopic or microscopic structures formed by the physical intrusion and growth of plant roots into sedimentary substrates, distinguished from other plant trace fossils by their specific architecture, spatial orientation, and pedogenic context indicative of in situ root activity.

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Terrestrial-marine teleconnections in the Devonian: links between the evolution of land plants, weathering processes, and marine anoxic events

Thomas J. Algeo, Stephen E. Scheckler · Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences · 1998 · 754 citations · Full text

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A Novel Growing Device Inspired by Plant Root Soil Penetration Behaviors

Alì Sadeghi, Alice Tonazzini, Liyana Popova et al. · PLoS ONE · 2014 · 134 citations · Full text

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Carbon storage and root penetration in deep soils under small-farmer land-use systems in the Eastern Amazon region, Brazil

Rolf Sommer, Manfred Denich, Paul L. G. Vlek · Plant and Soil · 2000 · 111 citations

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Minesoil Genesis and Morphology in a Spoil Chronosequence in Montana

William M. Schafer, G. A. Nielsen, W. D. Nettleton · Soil Science Society of America Journal · 1980 · 100 citations

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Root System Morphology of Western Hemlock, Western Red Cedar, and Douglas-fir

S. Eis · Canadian Journal of Forest Research · 1974 · 92 citations

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    Alì Sadeghi

    Center for Micro-BioRobotics, Italy

    2 publications · 201 citations

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    Travis Faske

    University of Arkansas System, United States

    2 publications · 36 citations

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  3. LJ
    L. J. Clark

    Rothamsted Research, United Kingdom

    2 publications · 101 citations

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  4. WR
    W. R. Whalley

    Rothamsted Research, United Kingdom

    2 publications · 101 citations

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  5. BM
    Barbara Mazzolai

    Italian Institute of Technology, Italy

    2 publications · 201 citations

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  1. Italian Institute of Technology

    Genoa, Italy

    2 h-index

    8 publications

    804 citations

  2. Silsoe Research Institute

    Bedford, United Kingdom

    2 h-index

    5 publications

    288 citations

  3. Center for Micro-BioRobotics

    Pontedera, Italy

    2 h-index

    8 publications

    804 citations

  4. Edith Cowan University

    Perth, Australia

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    13 citations

  5. University of Tennessee at Knoxville

    Knoxville, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    12 citations

  6. Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences

    Uppsala, Sweden

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    15 citations

  7. International Rice Research Institute

    Los Baños, Philippines

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    86 citations

  8. Capital Normal University

    Beijing, China

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    18 citations

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  1. Ecology

    4 publications · 84 citations

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  2. Soil Science Society of America Journal

    SSSAJ · 3 publications · 151 citations

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  3. Agronomy Journal

    2 publications · 69 citations

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  4. Field Crops Research

    2 publications · 99 citations

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  5. Nematropica

    2 publications · 26 citations

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