Role of root morphological and architectural traits: Insights into root-inspired anchorage and foundation systems

CRediT authorship contribution statement

Wengang Zhang: Writing - review & editing, Supervision, Conceptualization. Ruijie Huang: Writing - original draft. Jiaying Xiang: Writing - original draft. Ningning Zhang: Writing - review & editing, Supervision. Matteo Oryem Ciantia: Writing - review & editing, Supervision. Leilei Liu: Writing - review & editing. Jian Yin: Writing - review & editing. Changbing Qin: Writing - review & editing.

Declaration of Competing Interest

The author declare the following financial interests/personal relationships which may be considered as potential competing interests: Ningning Zhang is employed by Ramboll, which may be considered as potential competing interests, and other authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.

Acknowledgements

The work described in this paper was supported by Natural Science Foundation of Chongqing (No. CSTB2022NSCQ-LZX0001), High-end Foreign Expert Introduction program (No. G2022165004L), High-end Foreign Expert Introduction program (No. DL2021165001L). The financial supports are gratefully acknowledged.

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