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Plant microbiota controls an alternative root branching regulatory mechanism in plants (2023)
Journal Article
Gonin, M., Salas-González, I., Gopaulchan, D., Frene, J. P., Roden, S., Van de Poel, B., …Castrillo, G. (2023). Plant microbiota controls an alternative root branching regulatory mechanism in plants. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 120(15), Article e2301054120. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2301054120

The establishment of beneficial interactions with microbes has helped plants to modulate root branching plasticity in response to environmental cues. However, how the plant microbiota harmonizes with plant roots to control their branching is unknown.... Read More about Plant microbiota controls an alternative root branching regulatory mechanism in plants.

Sculpting the soil microbiota (2021)
Journal Article
Custódio, V., Gonin, M., Stabl, G., Bakhoum, N., Oliveira, M. M., Gutjahr, C., & Castrillo, G. (2022). Sculpting the soil microbiota. Plant Journal, 109(3), 508-522. https://doi.org/10.1111/tpj.15568

Soil is a living ecosystem, the health of which depends on fine interactions among its abiotic and biotic components. These form a delicate equilibrium maintained through a multilayer network that absorbs certain perturbations and guarantees soil fun... Read More about Sculpting the soil microbiota.

Schengen-pathway controls spatially separated and chemically distinct lignin deposition in the endodermis (2021)
Working Paper
Reyt, G., Ramakrishna, P., Salas-Gonzalez, I., Fujita, S., Love, A., Tiemessen, D., …Salt, D. E. Schengen-pathway controls spatially separated and chemically distinct lignin deposition in the endodermis

Lignin is a complex polymer precisely deposited in the cell wall of specialised plant cells, where it provides essential cellular functions. Plants coordinate timing, location, abundance and composition of lignin deposition in response to endogenous... Read More about Schengen-pathway controls spatially separated and chemically distinct lignin deposition in the endodermis.

Two chemically distinct root lignin barriers control solute and water balance (2021)
Journal Article
Reyt, G., Ramakrishna, P., Salas-González, I., Fujita, S., Love, A., Tiemessen, D., …Salt, D. E. (2021). Two chemically distinct root lignin barriers control solute and water balance. Nature Communications, 12(1), Article 2320. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-22550-0

Lignin is a complex polymer deposited in the cell wall of specialised plant cells, where it provides essential cellular functions. Plants coordinate timing, location, abundance and composition of lignin deposition in response to endogenous and exogen... Read More about Two chemically distinct root lignin barriers control solute and water balance.

Coordination between microbiota and root endodermis supports plant mineral nutrient homeostasis (2020)
Journal Article
Salas-González, I., Reyt, G., Flis, P., Custódio, V., Gopaulchan, D., Bakhoum, N., …Castrillo, G. (2021). Coordination between microbiota and root endodermis supports plant mineral nutrient homeostasis. Science, 371(6525), Article eabd0695. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.abd0695

Copyright © 2021, American Association for the Advancement of Science. Plant roots and animal guts have evolved specialized cell layers to control mineral nutrient homeostasis. These layers must tolerate the resident microbiota while keeping homeosta... Read More about Coordination between microbiota and root endodermis supports plant mineral nutrient homeostasis.

Uclacyanin Proteins Are Required for Lignified Nanodomain Formation within Casparian Strips (2020)
Journal Article
Reyt, G., Chao, Z., Flis, P., Salas-González, I., Castrillo, G., Chao, D. Y., & Salt, D. E. (2020). Uclacyanin Proteins Are Required for Lignified Nanodomain Formation within Casparian Strips. Current Biology, 30(20), 4103-4111.e6. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2020.07.095

© 2020 The Author(s) Casparian strips (CSs) are cell wall modifications of vascular plants restricting extracellular free diffusion into and out of the vascular system [1]. This barrier plays a critical role in controlling the acquisition of nutrient... Read More about Uclacyanin Proteins Are Required for Lignified Nanodomain Formation within Casparian Strips.

Uclacyanin proteins are required for lignified nanodomain formation within Casparian strips (2020)
Other
Reyt, G., Chao, Z., Flis, P., Castrillo, G., Chao, D., & Salt, D. E. Uclacyanin proteins are required for lignified nanodomain formation within Casparian strips

Casparian strips (CS) are cell wall modifications of vascular plants restricting extracellular free diffusion into and out the vascular system. This barrier plays a critical role in controlling the acquisition of nutrients and water necessary for nor... Read More about Uclacyanin proteins are required for lignified nanodomain formation within Casparian strips.

An extended root phenotype: the rhizosphere, its formation and impacts on plant fitness (2020)
Journal Article
Cantó, C. D. L. F., Simonin, M., King, E., Moulin, L., Bennett, M. J., Castrillo, G., & Laplaze, L. (2020). An extended root phenotype: the rhizosphere, its formation and impacts on plant fitness. Plant Journal, 103(3), 951-964. https://doi.org/10.1111/tpj.14781

© 2020 Society for Experimental Biology and John Wiley & Sons Ltd Plants forage soil for water and nutrients, whose distribution is patchy and often dynamic. To improve their foraging activities, plants have evolved mechanisms to modify the physico... Read More about An extended root phenotype: the rhizosphere, its formation and impacts on plant fitness.

The effects of soil phosphorus content on plant microbiota are driven by the plant phosphate starvation response (2019)
Journal Article
Finkel, O. M., Salas-González, I., Castrillo, G., Spaepen, S., Law, T. F., Teixeira, P. J. P. L., …Dangl, J. L. (2019). The effects of soil phosphorus content on plant microbiota are driven by the plant phosphate starvation response. PLoS Biology, 17(11), 1-34. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3000534

Phosphate starvation response (PSR) in nonmycorrhizal plants comprises transcriptional reprogramming resulting in severe physiological changes to the roots and shoots and repression of plant immunity. Thus, plant-colonizing microorganisms-the plant m... Read More about The effects of soil phosphorus content on plant microbiota are driven by the plant phosphate starvation response.

Root development is maintained by specific bacteria-bacteria interactions within a complex microbiome (2019)
Other
Finkel, O. M., Salas-González, I., Castrillo, G., Law, T. F., Conway, J. M., Lima Teixeira, P. J. P., …Dangl, J. L. Root development is maintained by specific bacteria-bacteria interactions within a complex microbiome

Plants grow within a complex web of species interacting with each other and with the plant via a wide repertoire of chemical signals. To model plant-microbe-microbe-environment interactions, we inoculated seedlings with a defined 185-member bacterial... Read More about Root development is maintained by specific bacteria-bacteria interactions within a complex microbiome.

Design of synthetic bacterial communities for predictable plant phenotypes (2018)
Journal Article
Herrera Paredes, S., Gao, T., Law, T. F., Finkel, O. M., Mucyn, T., Teixeira, P. J. P. L., …Castrillo, G. (2018). Design of synthetic bacterial communities for predictable plant phenotypes. PLoS Biology, 16(2), Article e2003962. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.2003962

Specific members of complex microbiota can influence host phenotypes, depending on both the abiotic environment and the presence of other microorganisms. Therefore, it is challenging to define bacterial combinations that have predictable host phenoty... Read More about Design of synthetic bacterial communities for predictable plant phenotypes.