Aerial Roots for urban spaces
Team: Amanda Rasmussen, Susan Abernathy (PhD student)
Aerial roots are essential to plants growing in diverse ecological niches. They help plants climb from ground up trunks, survive in the canopy as epiphytes or stretch their roots down to the ground as hemi-epiphytes. Little is known about the physiology of these fascinating and diverse root types despite many plants selected for urban greenspace also depending on them. Understanding the physiology of stem-root types will improve urban greenspace management, enhancing plant diversity in city-scapes with flow-on implications for wider biodiversity and improving mental health.
For more information:
Sheeran L, Rasmussen A (2023) Aerial roots elevate indoor plant health: physiological and morphological responses of three high‐humidity adapted Araceae species to indoor humidity levels. Plant Cell and Environment 46: 1873-1884 (IF 7.947; 1 citation) https://doi.org/10.1111/pce.14568
Rasmussen A, Dobrijevic DP, Ola A, Ishaya FD, Lovelock CE (2019) Aerial root physiology: Reaching for the sky or down to earth? Annual Plant Reviews https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119312994.apr0668.
Aerial roots are essential to plants growing in diverse ecological niches. They help plants climb from ground up trunks, survive in the canopy as epiphytes or stretch their roots down to the ground as hemi-epiphytes. Little is known about the physiology of these fascinating and diverse root types despite many plants selected for urban greenspace also depending on them. Understanding the physiology of stem-root types will improve urban greenspace management, enhancing plant diversity in city-scapes with flow-on implications for wider biodiversity and improving mental health.
For more information:
Sheeran L, Rasmussen A (2023) Aerial roots elevate indoor plant health: physiological and morphological responses of three high‐humidity adapted Araceae species to indoor humidity levels. Plant Cell and Environment 46: 1873-1884 (IF 7.947; 1 citation) https://doi.org/10.1111/pce.14568
Rasmussen A, Dobrijevic DP, Ola A, Ishaya FD, Lovelock CE (2019) Aerial root physiology: Reaching for the sky or down to earth? Annual Plant Reviews https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119312994.apr0668.