Characterizing roots and water uptake in a ground cover rice production system

• Sen Li,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Department of Soil and Water Sciences, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China, Key Laboratory of Plant-Soil Interactions, Ministry of Education, Beijing, China, Key Laboratory of Arable Land Conservation (North China), Ministry of Agriculture, Beijing, China

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• Qiang Zuo,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Soil and Water Sciences, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China, Key Laboratory of Plant-Soil Interactions, Ministry of Education, Beijing, China, Key Laboratory of Arable Land Conservation (North China), Ministry of Agriculture, Beijing, China

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• Xiaoyu Wang,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

  Affiliations Department of Soil and Water Sciences, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China, Key Laboratory of Plant-Soil Interactions, Ministry of Education, Beijing, China, Key Laboratory of Arable Land Conservation (North China), Ministry of Agriculture, Beijing, China

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• Wenwen Ma,

  Roles Resources

  Affiliations Department of Soil and Water Sciences, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China, Key Laboratory of Plant-Soil Interactions, Ministry of Education, Beijing, China, Key Laboratory of Arable Land Conservation (North China), Ministry of Agriculture, Beijing, China

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• Xinxin Jin,

  Roles Resources

  Affiliations Department of Soil and Water Sciences, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China, Key Laboratory of Plant-Soil Interactions, Ministry of Education, Beijing, China, Key Laboratory of Arable Land Conservation (North China), Ministry of Agriculture, Beijing, China

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• Jianchu Shi ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: shijianchu@cau.edu.cn

  Affiliations Department of Soil and Water Sciences, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China, Key Laboratory of Plant-Soil Interactions, Ministry of Education, Beijing, China, Key Laboratory of Arable Land Conservation (North China), Ministry of Agriculture, Beijing, China

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• Alon Ben-Gal

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Soil, Water and Environmental Sciences, Agricultural Research Organization, Gilat Research Center, Negev, Israel

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