News tagged with root cell
Hormone clue to root growth
Jul 06, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Plant roots provide the crops we eat with water, nutrients and anchorage. Understanding how roots grow and how hormones control that growth is crucial to improving crop yields, which will be necessary to ...
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Root system architecture arises from coupling cell shape to auxin transport
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Dec 16, 2008 |
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Plants come in all shapes and sizes, from grand Redwood trees to the common Snowdrop. Although we cannot see them, under the ground plants rely on a complex network of roots. What determines the pattern of root growth has ...
The emerging story of plant roots
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Jul 15, 2008 |
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An international group of European and US scientists led by the Centre for Plant Integrative Biology at The University of Nottingham have uncovered a fascinating new insight into the unseen side of plant biology — the root.
Origin of root offshoots revealed
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Oct 23, 2008 |
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VIB researchers at Ghent University (Belgium) have discovered the substance that governs the formation of root offshoots in plants, and how it works. Root offshoots are vitally important for plants – and for farmers. Plants ...
More food at lower cost: Important step forward towards increasing crop yields
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Dec 14, 2008 |
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In the face of climate change, being able to increase crop yields by enabling plants to take up nutrients and water more efficiently becomes increasingly important, as fertiliser and water supplies incur significant ...
Biochemists devise method for bypassing aluminum toxicity effects in plants
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Oct 02, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Aluminum toxicity, a global agricultural problem, halts root growth in plants, severely limiting agricultural productivity for more than half of the world's arable land.
Scientists find stem cell switch
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Jul 26, 2007 |
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Scientists have discovered how plant stem cells in roots detect soil structure and whether it is favourable for growth.
Hyped-up hopes for hairy roots as biofactories
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Oct 08, 2007 |
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Scientists are reporting an advance towards tapping the immense potential of 'hairy roots' as natural factories to produce medicines, food flavorings and other commercial products. Their study is scheduled for the November/December ...
Biologists find stem cell-like functions in other types of plant cells
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Jan 28, 2009 |
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Ordinary cells have the ability to replace lost organs in plants—a function previously thought to be limited to stem cells—researchers at New York University's Center for Genomics and Systems Biology and Utrecht University ...
2-protein team would be lost without each other
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Apr 19, 2007 |
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Just as a hard-charging person sometimes needs a calming partner to be more effective, so it is with a pair of critical proteins that promote cell division and growth in the rapidly expanding root tip of plants.
Saving teeth by using periodontal ligament regeneration
Jun 04, 2008 |
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Teeth may fall out as a result of inflammation and subsequent destruction of the tissues supporting the teeth. Dutch researcher Agnes Berendsen has investigated a possible solution to this problem. At the Academic Centre ...
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