Roots have always been of importance as a significant contributing factor to plant's productivity. Root apex is supposed to be the brain of a plant, ...

The authors’ model, termed BARE (for branching and annihilating ... changing the fungal species did affect fungal growth. A mutation makes plant roots more welcoming to beneficial microbes ...

"We have succeeded in having plant roots absorb a benign nanoparticle which was developed by Professor Gordon Xu's group at UQ for the delivery of vaccines and cancer treatments in animals.

Animals and plants form complex symbiotic communities with microorganisms, the so-called microbiome. A research team from Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (HHU) and the Max Planck Institute ...

Root nodules are organs on plant roots that facilitate the symbiotic ... researchers used the legume model plant Lotus ...

View Full Profile. Learn about our Editorial Policies. Plant SLs serve two roles: canonical ones act as external signaling molecules typically released from the roots, while noncanonical SLs function ...