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Challenges and potential solutions to improve crop root adaptation to climate change. Global alteration of climate in addition to higher temperatures will negatively affect crop yield. There is an urgent need to improve and maintain crop productivity under these climatic constrains and root traits withhold the potential to reach this goal. In order to confront climate change effects we still have to overcome a few challenges, largely concerning the necessity to increase our knowledge of different aspects of the root adaptation process. New solutions bringing together technical and conceptual advances in the analysis of root traits will drive this advancement.