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  • Improving nitrogen efficiency in rice production is crucial for reducing economic, energy, and environmental impacts.
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  • To evaluate the utility of combined root architectural phenes for rice growth under low nitrogen conditions.
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  • Utilized an enhanced functional-structural model (OpenSimRoot) integrated with the ORYZA_v3 crop model.
  • Assessed combinations of root architectural phenes including nodal root angle, root diameter proportion, root number, and lateral branching densities (L-type and S-type).

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  • Identified multiple integrated root phenotypes exhibiting greater shoot biomass under low nitrogen compared to the reference cultivar IR64.
  • Demonstrated that the superiority of these phenotypes resulted from synergism among root phenes, not additive effects.
  • Predicted optimal phenotypes could achieve up to 80% greater grain yield under low nitrogen supply in rainfed dry direct-seeded systems.

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  • Synergistic combinations of root architectural phenes are beneficial for rice growth under nitrogen-limiting conditions.
  • These optimal root ideotypes hold significant potential for breeding rice cultivars with improved yield in resource-constrained environments.
  • The importance of phene synergism has direct implications for future crop breeding strategies.