Calcium—nutrient and messenger [PDF]
, 2019 Calcium is an essential element needed for growth and development of plants under both non-stressed and stress conditions. It thereby fulfills a dual function, being not only an important factor for cell wall and membrane stability, but also serving as a
Thor, Kathrin
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Lead Uptake, Toxicity, and Detoxification in Plants [PDF]
, 2011 Lead has gained considerable attention as a persistent toxic pollutant of concern, partly because it has been prominent in the debate concerning the growing anthropogenic pressure on the environment.
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Quiescent center initiation in the Arabidopsislateral root primordia is dependent on the SCARECROW transcription factor [PDF]
, 2016 Lateral root (LR) formation is an important determinant of root system architecture. In Arabidopsis, LRs originate from pericycle cells, which undergo a programme of morphogenesis to generate a new LR meristem.
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Plant ionomics: from elemental profiling to environmental adaptation [PDF]
, 2016 Ionomics is a high-throughput elemental profiling approach to study the molecular mechanistic basis underlying mineral nutrient and trace element composition (also known as the ionome) of living organisms.
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Root zone-specific localization of AMTs determines ammonium transport pathways and nitrogen allocation to shoots. [PDF]
PLoS Biology, 2018 In plants, nutrient provision of shoots depends on the uptake and transport of nutrients across the root tissue to the vascular system. Nutrient delivery to the vasculature is mediated via the apoplastic transport pathway (ATP), which uses the free space
Fengying Duan +4 more
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Casparian strip diffusion barrier in Arabidopsis is made of a lignin polymer without suberin. [PDF]
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2012 Casparian strips are ring-like cell-wall modifications in the root endodermis of vascular plants. Their presence generates a paracellular barrier, analogous to animal tight junctions, that is thought to be crucial for selective nutrient uptake, exclusion of pathogens, and many other processes. Despite their importance, the chemical
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Characterization of pearl millet root architecture and anatomy reveals three types of lateral roots [PDF]
, 2016 Pearl millet plays an important role for food security in arid regions of Africa and India. Nevertheless, it is considered an orphan crop as it lags far behind other cereals in terms of genetic improvement efforts.
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Frontiers in Plant Science, 2022 Microscopic observations and transcriptomic RNA-Seq analyses were applied to investigate the effect of water stress during the formation of tomato galls formation 1 and 2 weeks after inoculation with the root-knot nematode Meloidogyne incognita.
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An updated protocol for high throughput plant tissue sectioning [PDF]
, 2017 Quantification of the tissue and cellular structure of plant material is essential for the study of a variety of plant sciences applications. Currently, many methods for sectioning plant material are either low throughput or involve free-hand sectioning ...
Atkinson, Jonathan A., Wells, Darren M.
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CASPARIAN STRIP INTEGRITY FACTOR (CIF) family peptides - regulator of plant extracellular barriers
Peptides, 2021 In multicellular organisms, water and most of the small molecules, such as nutrients, toxic substances, and signaling compounds, move freely through extracellular spaces, depending on their biochemical nature. To restrict the simple diffusion of small molecules, multicellular organisms have evolved extracellular barriers across specific tissue layers ...
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