Scientists have discovered, for the first time how root cells respond to their complex soil environment revealing that roots actively sense their microenvironment and mount precise, cell-specific ...

Scientists have discovered, for the first time, how root cells respond to their complex soil environment, revealing that roots actively "sense" their microenvironment and mount precise, cell-specific ...

Land plants thrive in soils showing vastly different properties and environmental stresses 1. Root systems can adapt to contrasting soil conditions and stresses, yet how their responses are programmed ...

Plants may burrow into the ground and stretch toward the sun, but they're ultimately stuck where they sprout—at the mercy of environmental threats like temperature, drought, and microbial infection.

Root hairs are tubular tip-growing extensions of root epidermal cells that enhance root surface area for water and nutrient acquisition. While the mechanisms governing root hair fate, polarity and tip ...

Salk’s new single-cell analysis provides detailed first look at plant roots’ protective outer layer and carbon-capturing cells LA JOLLA (January 9, 2025)—Plants may burrow into the ground and stretch ...

An artistic fusion of spatial transcriptomic landscapes from longitudinal and transverse rice root sections. Colours indicate distinct cell types, while dots represent detected mRNA molecules, ...

Scientists have created the first single cell genomic atlas of mature plants' outer armor layer, called the periderm, and its carbon-capturing phellem cells. The findings will be useful in creating ...