A New Angle on How Roots Acclimate to Sporadic Rainfall

Bipin K Pandey; Malcolm J Bennett

doi:10.1016/j.cell.2019.06.018

A New Angle on How Roots Acclimate to Sporadic Rainfall

Cell. 2019 Jul 11;178(2):269-271. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2019.06.018.

Authors

Bipin K Pandey¹, Malcolm J Bennett²

Affiliations

¹ Plant and Crop Sciences, School of Biosciences, University of Nottingham, UK.
² Plant and Crop Sciences, School of Biosciences, University of Nottingham, UK. Electronic address: malcolm.bennett@nottingham.ac.uk.

PMID: 31299198
DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2019.06.018

Abstract

Root architecture critically influences a plant's ability to forage for nutrients and water in soil. In this issue of Cell, Ogura et al. (2019) report a new regulatory gene and elegant molecular mechanism that links auxin-dependent root-angle regulation with improved plant fitness under variable rainfall conditions.

Publication types

Comment

MeSH terms

Arabidopsis*
Biological Transport
Indoleacetic Acids
Plant Roots
Soil

Substances

Indoleacetic Acids
Soil