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Root hydrotropism is controlled via a cortex-specific growth mechanism (2017)
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Dietrich, D., Pang, L., Kobayashi, A., Fozard, J. A., Boudolf, V., Bhosale, R., …Bennett, M. J. (2017). Root hydrotropism is controlled via a cortex-specific growth mechanism. Nature Plants, 3(6), Article 17057. https://doi.org/10.1038/nplants.2017.57

Plants can acclimate by using tropisms to link the direction of growth to environmental conditions. Hydrotropism allows roots to forage for water, a process known to depend on abscisic acid (ABA) but whose molecular and cellular basis remains unclear... Read More about Root hydrotropism is controlled via a cortex-specific growth mechanism.

Plant biology: building barriers... in roots (2017)
Journal Article
van Wangenheim, D., Goh, T., Dietrich, D., & Bennett, M. J. (2017). Plant biology: building barriers... in roots. Current Biology, 27(5), R172-R174. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2017.01.060

The Casparian strip is an important barrier regulating water and nutrient uptake into root tissues. New research reveals two peptide signals and their co-receptors play critical roles patterning and maintaining barrier integrity.