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The auxin-regulated CrRLK1L kinase ERULUS controls cell wall composition during root hair tip growth (2018)
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Schoenaers, S., Balcerowicz, D., Breen, G., Hill, K., Zdanio, M., Mouille, G., …Vissenberg, K. (2018). The auxin-regulated CrRLK1L kinase ERULUS controls cell wall composition during root hair tip growth. Current Biology, 28(5), 722-732.e6. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2018.01.050

© 2018 Elsevier Ltd Root hairs facilitate a plant's ability to acquire soil anchorage and nutrients. Root hair growth is regulated by the plant hormone auxin and dependent on localized synthesis, secretion, and modification of the root hair tip cell... Read More about The auxin-regulated CrRLK1L kinase ERULUS controls cell wall composition during root hair tip growth.

AtHMA4 drives natural variation in leaf Zn concentration of Arabidopsis thaliana (2018)
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Chen, Z., Kuang, L., Gao, Y., Wang, Y., Salt, D. E., & Chao, D. (2018). AtHMA4 drives natural variation in leaf Zn concentration of Arabidopsis thaliana. Frontiers in Plant Science, 9, Article 270. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2018.00270

Zinc (Zn) is an essential element for plant growth and development, and Zn derived from crop plants in the diet is also important for human health. Here, we report that genetic variation in Heavy Metal-ATPase 4 (HMA4) controls natural variation in le... Read More about AtHMA4 drives natural variation in leaf Zn concentration of Arabidopsis thaliana.

Hydrotropism: how roots search for water (2018)
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Dietrich, D. (2018). Hydrotropism: how roots search for water. Journal of Experimental Botany, 69(11), 2759-2771. https://doi.org/10.1093/jxb/ery034

Fresh water is an increasingly scarce resource for agriculture. Plant roots mediate water uptake from the soil and have developed a number of adaptive traits such as hydrotropism to aid water foraging. Hydrotropism modifies root growth to respond to... Read More about Hydrotropism: how roots search for water.

Design of synthetic bacterial communities for predictable plant phenotypes (2018)
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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.

Fruit softening: revisiting the role of pectin (2018)
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Wang, D., Yeats, T. H., Uluisik, S., Rose, J. K., & Seymour, G. B. (2018). Fruit softening: revisiting the role of pectin. Trends in Plant Science, 23(4), 302-310. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tplants.2018.01.006

Fruit softening is a major determinant of shelf life and commercial value. Here, we highlight recent work that revisits the role of pectin in fruit softening and primary cell wall structure. These studies demonstrate the importance of pectin and the... Read More about Fruit softening: revisiting the role of pectin.

Suboptimal acclimation of photosynthesis to light in wheat canopies (2018)
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Townsend, A. J., Retkute, R., Chinnathambi, K., Randall, J. W., Foulkes, J. F., Carmo-Silva, E., & Murchie, E. H. (in press). Suboptimal acclimation of photosynthesis to light in wheat canopies. Plant Physiology, 176(2), https://doi.org/10.1104/pp.17.01213

Photosynthetic acclimation (photoacclimation) is the process whereby leaves alter their morphology and/or biochemistry to optimise photosynthetic efficiency and productivity according to long-term changes in the light environment. Three-dimensional (... Read More about Suboptimal acclimation of photosynthesis to light in wheat canopies.

Pleiotropic effects of the wheat domestication gene Q on yield and grain morphology (2018)
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Xie, Q., Li, N., Yang, Y., Lv, Y., Yao, H., Wei, R., …Ma, Z. (in press). Pleiotropic effects of the wheat domestication gene Q on yield and grain morphology. Planta, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00425-018-2847-4

Transformation from q to Q during wheat domestication functioned outside the boundary of threshability to increase yield, grains m−2, grain weight and roundness, but to reduce grains per spike/spikelet. Mutation of the Q gene, well-known affecting w... Read More about Pleiotropic effects of the wheat domestication gene Q on yield and grain morphology.

Root gravitropism: quantification, challenges, and solutions (2018)
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Muller, L., Bennett, M. J., French, A., Wells, D. M., & Swarup, R. (2018). Root gravitropism: quantification, challenges, and solutions. Methods in Molecular Biology, 1761, 103-112. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-7747-5_8

© 2018, Springer Science+Business Media, LLC. Better understanding of root traits such as root angle and root gravitropism will be crucial for development of crops with improved resource use efficiency. This chapter describes a high-throughput, autom... Read More about Root gravitropism: quantification, challenges, and solutions.