Aquaporins can change their activity reversibly, if exposed to a change in nutrients.
Tag - root hydraulic conductivity
Fi Gennu
Water balance in potassium-limited barley
Limited supply of mineral nutrients such as potassium increases the root-to-shoot ratio. This also increases the ratio between water-absorbing and -losing plant surface. Water uptake per unit surface has to either...
Alex Assiry
Shoot control of root aquaporin expression in rice
Seeking to uncover the responses of root hydraulics and water uptake to transpirational water loss, Meng et al. analyse three-week old rice plants, observing changes in root aquaporin expression and hydraulic...
botanyone
Pathways of water flow in mycorrhizal plants
Arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) symbiosis regulates root hydraulic properties, but it is not clear whether this involves the cell-to-cell or the apoplastic pathway. Bárzana et al. show that roots of AM plants of maize and...
