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PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
Volume 367, Issue 1595, Pages 1441-1452Publisher
ROYAL SOC
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2011.0234
Keywords
root; Arabidopsis; maize; rice; hormones; environment
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- Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council [BB/H022457/1] Funding Source: Medline
- BBSRC [BB/H022457/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council [BB/H022457/1, 1094837] Funding Source: researchfish
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Roots are important to plants for a wide variety of processes, including nutrient and water uptake, anchoring and mechanical support, storage functions, and as the major interface between the plant and various biotic and abiotic factors in the soil environment. Understanding the development and architecture of roots holds potential for the exploitation and manipulation of root characteristics to both increase food plant yield and optimize agricultural land use. This theme issue highlights the importance of investigating specific aspects of root architecture in both the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana and (cereal) crops, presents novel insights into elements that are currently hardly addressed and provides new tools and technologies to study various aspects of root system architecture. This introduction gives a broad overview of the importance of the root system and provides a snapshot of the molecular control mechanisms associated with root branching and responses to the environment in A. thaliana and cereal crops.
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