Roots serve many functions for a plant including anchorage and acquisition of vital nutrients and water necessary for growth. The plant root-soil interface is a dynamic region in which numerous ...

“We show as well that the plant root microbiome is not very different from the human microbiome.” To understand root-microbe interactions in detail, the researchers grew Arabidopsis thaliana and ...

Therefore, the QC must be the source of a signal that prevents differentiation of the root stem cells. Thus plant stem cells depend on the function of other, neighboring, cells to continue ...