On 12 June we have a visit from an international group of scientists working on plant roots and their significance for the exploitation of water and nutrients from the soil by plants and crops.
The approaches of the four, and their research groups are very different, but they all target the goal of developing sustainable and productive systems by improved understanding of plant roots and their ability to exploit also deep soil layers. There is a main focus on crop production systems, but Philippe Hinsinger from INRA in France and especially Alain Pierret from IRD in Laos also work on natural plant communities.
