MARTÍNKOVÁ, Jana, KLIMEŠ, Adam, MOTYKA, Václav, ADAMEC, Lubomír, DOBREV, Petre, FILEPOVÁ, Roberta, GAUDINOVÁ, Alena, LACEK, Jozef, MAREŠOVÁ, Iveta, KLIMEŠOVÁ, Jitka. Why is root sprouting not more common among plants? Phytohormonal clues and ecological correlates. Environmental and Experimental Botany. 2023, 205(JAN 2023), 105147. ISSN 0098-8472. E-ISSN 1873-7307

Presumably, the key barrier to the more frequent occurrence of RS ability in the herbaceous plants studied here is a low auxin-to-cytokinin ratio, which is necessary to induce RS but is likely non-existent in most plants in order to avoid the risk of developmental deformities.