To improve water and nutrient acquisition from the soil, plants can modulate their root system architecture. Despite the importance of changes in root architecture to exploit local nutrient patches ...

Since every process in lateral root development, including initiation, emergence and elongation is governed by auxin, the question arises of how auxin responds to the local presence of ammonium which ...

The ability of rice plants to modify their root systems to adapt to the surrounding soil water conditions is a great example of a phenomenon called phenotype plasticity. However, the exact mechanism ...