Elevated [CO₂] mitigates the effect of surface drought by stimulating root growth to access sub-soil water

• Shihab Uddin ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Shihab Uddin, Markus Löw, Shahnaj Parvin, Glenn J. Fitzgerald, Michael Tausz

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

  * E-mail: shihab.uddin@unimelb.edu.au

  Affiliations Faculty of Veterinary and Agricultural Sciences, The University of Melbourne, Creswick, Victoria, Australia, Department of Agronomy, Bangladesh Agricultural University, Mymensingh, Bangladesh

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1257-4269

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• Markus Löw ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Shihab Uddin, Markus Löw, Shahnaj Parvin, Glenn J. Fitzgerald, Michael Tausz

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Faculty of Veterinary and Agricultural Sciences, The University of Melbourne, Creswick, Victoria, Australia

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• Shahnaj Parvin ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Shihab Uddin, Markus Löw, Shahnaj Parvin, Glenn J. Fitzgerald, Michael Tausz

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Agronomy, Bangladesh Agricultural University, Mymensingh, Bangladesh, School of Ecosystem and Forest Sciences, The University of Melbourne, Creswick, Victoria, Australia

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• Glenn J. Fitzgerald ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Shihab Uddin, Markus Löw, Shahnaj Parvin, Glenn J. Fitzgerald, Michael Tausz

  Roles Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Faculty of Veterinary and Agricultural Sciences, The University of Melbourne, Creswick, Victoria, Australia, Department of Economic Development, Jobs, Transport and Resources, Horsham, Victoria, Australia

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• Sabine Tausz-Posch ,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Current address: School of Biosciences, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, United Kingdom

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Faculty of Veterinary and Agricultural Sciences, The University of Melbourne, Creswick, Victoria, Australia

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• Roger Armstrong ,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliations Department of Economic Development, Jobs, Transport and Resources, Horsham, Victoria, Australia, Department of Animal, Plant and Soil Sciences, Centre for AgriBioscience, La Trobe University, Bundoora, Victoria, Australia

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• Garry O’Leary ,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Economic Development, Jobs, Transport and Resources, Horsham, Victoria, Australia

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• Michael Tausz

  Contributed equally to this work with: Shihab Uddin, Markus Löw, Shahnaj Parvin, Glenn J. Fitzgerald, Michael Tausz

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Current address: Birmingham Institute of Forest Research, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, United Kingdom

  Affiliation School of Ecosystem and Forest Sciences, The University of Melbourne, Creswick, Victoria, Australia

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