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Early developmental plasticity of lateral roots in response to asymmetric water availability (2020)
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von Wangenheim, D., Banda, J., Schmitz, A., Boland, J., Bishopp, A., Maizel, A., …Bennett, M. (2020). Early developmental plasticity of lateral roots in response to asymmetric water availability. Nature Plants, 6, 73–77. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41477-019-0580-z

© 2020, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Limited. Root branching is influenced by the soil environment and exhibits a high level of plasticity. We report that the radial positioning of emerging lateral roots is influenced by... Read More about Early developmental plasticity of lateral roots in response to asymmetric water availability.

Lateral Root Formation in Arabidopsis: A Well-Ordered LRexit (2019)
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Banda, J., Bellande, K., von Wangenheim, D., Goh, T., Guyomarc’h, S., Laplaze, L., & Bennett, M. J. (2019). Lateral Root Formation in Arabidopsis: A Well-Ordered LRexit. Trends in Plant Science, 24(9), 826-839. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tplants.2019.06.015

Lateral roots (LRs) are crucial for increasing the surface area of root systems to explore heterogeneous soil environments. Major advances have recently been made in the model plant arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana) to elucidate the cellular basis o... Read More about Lateral Root Formation in Arabidopsis: A Well-Ordered LRexit.

Roots branch towards water by post-translational modification of transcription factor ARF7 (2018)
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Orosa Puente, B., Leftley, N., Von Wangenheim, D., Banda, J., Anjil, S., Hill, K., …Bennett, M. (2018). Roots branch towards water by post-translational modification of transcription factor ARF7. Science, 362(6421), 1407-1410. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aau3956

Plants adapt to heterogeneous soil conditions by altering their root architecture. For example, roots branch when in contact with water using the hydropatterning response. We report that hydropatterning is dependent on auxin response factor ARF7. Thi... Read More about Roots branch towards water by post-translational modification of transcription factor ARF7.

Adding a piece to the leaf epidermal cell shape puzzle (2017)
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von Wangenheim, D., Wells, D. M., & Bennett, M. J. (2017). Adding a piece to the leaf epidermal cell shape puzzle. Developmental Cell, 43(3), 255-256. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.devcel.2017.10.020

© 2017 Elsevier Inc. The jigsaw puzzle-shaped pavement cells in the leaf epidermis collectively function as a load-bearing tissue that controls organ growth. In this issue of Developmental Cell, Majda et al. (2017) shed light on how the jigsaw shape... Read More about Adding a piece to the leaf epidermal cell shape puzzle.

Shaping 3D root system architecture (2017)
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Morris, E. C., Griffiths, M., Golebiowska, A., Mairhofer, S., Burr-Hersey, J., Goh, T., …Bennett, M. J. (2017). Shaping 3D root system architecture. Current Biology, 27(17), R919-R930. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2017.06.043

Plants are sessile organisms rooted in one place. The soil resources that plants require are often distributed in a highly heterogeneous pattern. To aid foraging, plants have evolved roots whose growth and development are highly responsive to soil si... Read More about Shaping 3D root system architecture.