Perennial Roots: A Key Driver to Ecosystem Stability and Long Term Yield.

S. Tianna DuPont, Extension, The Pennsylvania State University, Nazareth, PA, Joshua Beniston, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, Steven W. Culman, School of Environment and Natural Resources, Ohio State University, Wooster, OH, Jerry Glover, Office of Agriculture Research and Policy Bureau of Food Security, US Agency for International Development, Washington, DC, Amanda Hodson, University of California at Davis, Davis, CA, Rattan Lal, Carbon Management and Sequestration Center, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH and Howard Ferris, Entomology and Nematology, University of California-Davis, Davis, CA