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Tag - plant development
Nigel Chaffey
New Biosensor Reveals How Plants Respond to Drought Conditions
Innovative biosensor technology has shed light on how plants react to low humidity, revealing that the leaves signal the roots to grow and find water.
Alun Salt
The model bean? Computational modelling of Coffea growth
The model can reproduce the measured data, and so opens up avenues for applying this original procedure to other experimental data.
Liam Elliott
Actin cytoskeleton, plant growth and development in Arabidopsis root hair mutant der1-3
The DER1 (deformed root hairs1) locus encodes a major vegetative actin (ACTIN2) in Arabidopsis thaliana. Mutations in DER1 lead to impaired root hair development. However, the role of this gene in overall plant...
Alex Assiry
Sexual dimorphism and rapid turnover in gene expression in pre-reproductive seedlings of a dioecious herb
Sexual dimorphism in morphology, physiology or life history traits is common in dioecious plants at reproductive maturity, but it is typically inconspicuous or absent in juveniles. Although plants of different sexes...
Should I fight or should I grow? Cytokinins in defence-growth trade-offs
Constitutive defence activation in plants leads to resistance to a broad-spectrum of pathogens, but also frequently to stunted growth and reduced seed sets; how do plants decide whether to defend against infection or to...
botanyone
Sugar versus Auxin: which is dominant?
Of the plethora of aspects of plant growth and development that the hormone (OK, plant growth regulator…) auxin is implicated in/involved with (e.g. embryo development, leaf formation, phototropism, gravitropism, fruit...
Developmental changes in root hydraulics (Research in Context)
A study of barley plants during the early stages of vegetative development (9–28 d old) to determine by what means root water uptake is increased.
Arabidopsis Mob1 gene regulates organ development
Mob1 proteins are kinase regulators that are conserved among eukaryotes and which play a significant role in restraining tumor development. Pinosa et al. study the role of Mob1-like genes in development of Arabidopsis...
Hair today; iHair tomorrow…
At the subterranean interface between ‘plant’ and ‘non-plant’ few structures play a more important role than root hairs – tiny, closed-ended tubular projections from single cells in the root’s epidermis. Not only do...
Transient VENUS
This year’s transit of Venus reminds me – albeit belatedly – to applaud the hard-working botanists of the Universities of Nottingham (UK), Ghent (Belgium), Leeds (UK) and Lyon (France) who have been exploring a more...
Modelling axis organogenesis in grapevine (PMA Special Issue)
Modelling axis organogenesis in grapevine (PMA Special Issue) Pallas et al. construct three plant growth models to improve the modelling of grapevine development and axis organogenesis in fluctuating environments; one...
