Microscopy methods developed in the 1960s are still commonly used in plant science today but new low-cost techniques offer big advantages.
Tag - suberin
William Salter
Aquaporins and apoplastic barriers in nutrient-limited barley
Aquaporins can change their activity reversibly, if exposed to a change in nutrients.
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
SLAD: Subero-lignified apical deposit in the root tip
Morphological response of radish (Raphanus sativus, Brassicaceae) roots exposed to toxic concentration of copper (Cu) include many root growth changes. Kováč et al. find that such changes are coupled with the formation...
Warming and elevated CO2 alter the suberin chemistry in roots
The decomposability of fine roots and their potential to contribute to soil carbon (C) is partly regulated by their tissue chemical composition. In a recent Editor’s Choice article published in AoB PLANTS, Suseela et al...
AoBPLANTS
Lignin and/or suberin? Lignin!
For as long as the Casparian strip (CS) – an impervious component of the endodermal cell wall that blocks the passive flow of water and solutes into the vascular tissues of a plant – has been known (discovery credited...
Nigel Chaffey
