The team demonstrated the feasibility of using SCP to characterize the contents of two neighboring root cell types in Arabidopsis thaliana, a plant often used as a model for research.

By Hugo Francisco de Souza In a recent study published in Plant, Cell & Environment, researchers demonstrate the utility of spectral electrical impedance tomography (sEIT), a cutting-edge ...

Botany: Root System Architecture Arises From Coupling Cell Shape To Auxin Transport Date: December 31, 2008 Source: Public Library of Science Summary: What determines the pattern of root growth ...

Scientists have developed a toolbox of transcriptional regulators for plants and show that they can be used to construct synthetic genetic circuits that predictably modify root growth. Their work ...

Plant leaf hairs, or trichomes, serve as an excellent model system to study all aspects of plant differentiation at the single-cell level, including the choice of cell fate, developmental control ...

To create a single-cell map of the corn root, the researchers first broke apart the root using cell-wall digesting enzymes to generate single, free-floating cells.

After the new lateral root is fully emerged, the overlying cells reopen the plasmodesmata connections, effectively reconnecting to the plant communication pathways. “While our research suggests that ...

1. A root–shoot model of partitioning during vegetative plant growth is described, which simulates the transport of water, labile nitrogen (N) and labile carbon (C) through the xylem and phloem, and ...

From Growing Roots, Clues to How Stem Cells Decide Their Fate Time-lapse footage of a threadlike Arabidopsis root as it grows. Each fluorescent blue dot marks the nucleus of a cell that’s in the ...