Despite being the primary food for more than half of the world's population, rice cultivation is very resource-intensive, ...

Stanford researchers discovered how plant cells decide whether to form breathing pores based on size and neighbor signals.

Introduction Roots are indispensable organs to preserve plant life and terrestrial ecosystems under normal and adverse environmental conditions. In Arabidopsis thaliana (Arabidopsis), the primary root ...

Seedling root traits impact plant establishment under challenging environments. Pearl millet is one of the most heat and drought tolerant cereal crops that provides a vital food source across the ...

GRXC1 (grey), a member of Class I GRX, is used as the tree root. Arabidopsis ROXY18-21 are represented in green, and PgGRXC9 is represented in purple. (B) Contrasted primary root phenotype in Nos0 and ...

In this issue of PNAS, Gonin et al. (7) address this question by means of a large collection of bacteria that recapitulate the phylogenetic diversity present in the root environment of healthy, ...

Using genetics, electrophysiology, and in vivo imaging, we found that Arabidopsis PIEZO1, an ortholog of mammalian Piezo, is required for root penetration and that pzo1 mutants have impaired primary ...

We propose that the method described herein is useful for screening Arabidopsis mutants with a primary root capable of creeping on the hard, impenetrable surface of horizontal medium.

In a finding that could be used to improve the nutrient uptake of crops, a RIKEN-led team has identified a transporter protein that is involved in the tendency of plant roots to grow downwards in ...

Then, I observed the effect of the Ibuprofen on Arabidopsis seedlings." The primary roots of the plant were significantly shorter and instead of growing downward, they were curling up, unable to ...