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We know that maize roots chase after phosphorus, but how? Xin Wang and colleagues have been investigating what purpose the hormone auxin has in controlling root proliferation. Their work could help better understand how plants work to capture phosphates in the soil. Plants require phosphorus to grow, and it’s essential for any crop. But it […] More
Plants usually have limited resources in one way or another. There is only so much nutrient in the soil. How best to use it? The plant economics spectrum theory integrates the coordination of plant functional traits along a resource acquisition–conservation trade-off axis. The need for acquisition might vary with competition for resources. There’s plenty of […] More
Waves lead to greater root biomass and stem flexibility, but lower stress resistance overall. More
It is said that sildenafil citrate can help preserve flowers. Here’s an experiment that you could do at home, but probably shouldn’t, to find out. More
Simulating seawater in the lab is more complicated than just getting the salt concentration right. More
Three aquaporins are reliable tools to identify cotton genotypes tolerant to salt stress, based on expression of qPCR-transcripts More
Roots are critical for plants to find water and nutrients. They can also be expensive to grow, so a plant needs to send them in the right direction. How do they do this? A new paper by Daniel von Wangenheim and colleagues in Nature Plants examines how lateral roots grow towards water in the very […] More
Whilst studies on Arabidopsis thaliana have generally been highly molecular and/or genetic in nature, most studies using A. halleri have addressed adaptation and variation in adaptive traits in the species’ natural habitat. More
Plants are able to grow, survive and reproduce under a wide range of temperatures. Examples of plants that thrive in temperature extremes include cushion plants in alpine ecosystems that grow close to the ground to stay warm and desert plants that have decreased absorptance to stay cool. Other plants keep their stomata open to dissipate […] More
Non-native aquatic Ludwigia species from a polyploid complex are among the world’s most problematic invasive plants. A new paper in AoBP finds out why. More
CPlantBox generates a variety of 3D full plant architectures and accurately simulates water and carbon flow in the full plant. More
How can models capture the complexity and variation of plant phenotypes? Vidal and Andrieu have taken a look at maize. More
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