Filling gaps in our understanding of belowground plant traits across the world: an introduction to a Virtual Issue

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Congratulations to the authors of the Virtual Issue articles for their excellent work; we enjoyed reading about your observations of the belowground world and we sincerely apologize if we have misrepresented any of your findings. Thank you also to the reviewers who invested their time and expertise to help shape these manuscripts; we appreciate your service to advance the scientific endeavor. Organization of this Virtual Issue and this introductory article were supported by the Biological and Environmental Research program in the US Department of Energy's Office of Science.The Fine‐Root Ecology Database (FRED) is also supported by the Biological and Environmental Research program in the Department of Energy’s Office of Science; thank you to the FRED team: A. Shafer Powell, J. Katie Baer, Dave Connerth, Derek Brownlee, Chris DeRolph and Les Hook. Oak Ridge National Laboratory is managed by UT‐Battelle, LLC, under contract number DE‐AC05‐00OR22725. Congratulations to the authors of the Virtual Issue articles for their excellent work; we enjoyed reading about your observations of the belowground world and we sincerely apologize if we have misrepresented any of your findings. Thank you also to the reviewers who invested their time and expertise to help shape these manuscripts; we appreciate your service to advance the scientific endeavor. Organization of this Virtual Issue and this introductory article were supported by the Biological and Environmental Research program in the US Department of Energy's Office of Science.The Fine-Root Ecology Database (FRED) is also supported by the Biological and Environmental Research program in the Department of Energy?s Office of Science; thank you to the FRED team: A. Shafer Powell, J. Katie Baer, Dave Connerth, Derek Brownlee, Chris DeRolph and Les Hook. Oak Ridge National Laboratory is managed by UT-Battelle, LLC, under contract number DE-AC05-00OR22725.