Roots play a critical role to reduce the impact of water stress on plants by adapting their shape (such as branching or growing deeper) to secure more water. Discovering how plant roots sense and ...

Scientists describe that the plant hormone auxin together with an increased cell cycle activity leads to a boost in root branching in the common thale cress Arabidopsis thaliana. In addition, they ...

• Background Many plant species can modify their root architecture to enable them to forage for heterogeneously distributed nutrients in the soil. The foraging response normally involves increased ...

Legumes are unique among higher plants in forming a symbiosis with Rhizobium. Phylogenetic studies indicate this symbiosis may have evolved as many as three times within the Fabaceae; alternatively, a ...

A branch root (red arrow) of buckwheat (Fagopyron esculentum) frozen together with its surrounding soil and then imaged using scanning electron microscopy to reveal the intimate contact between the ...