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CURRENT OPINION IN PLANT BIOLOGY
Volume 13, Issue 6, Pages 677-683Publisher
CURRENT BIOLOGY LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.pbi.2010.09.006
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- European Research Council [ERC 2007 Stg 207362 HCPO]
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Unlike locomotive organisms capable of actively approaching essential resources, sessile plants must efficiently exploit their habitat for water and nutrients This involves root-mediated underground interactions allowing plants to adapt to soils of diverse qualities The root system of plants is a dynamic structure that modulates primary root growth and root branching by continuous integration of environmental inputs, such as nutrition availability, soil aeration, humidity, or salinity Root branching is an extremely flexible means to rapidly adjust the overall surface of the root system and plants have evolved efficient control mechanisms, including firstly initiation, when and where to start lateral root formation, secondly lateral root primordia organogenesis, during which the development of primordia can be arrested for a certain time, and thirdly lateral root emergence Our review will focus on the most recent advances in understanding the molecular mechanisms involved in the regulation of lateral root initiation and organogenesis with the main focus on root system of the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana
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