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Non-invasive hydrodynamic imaging in plant roots at cellular resolution (2021)
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Pascut, F. C., Couvreur, V., Dietrich, D., Leftley, N., Reyt, G., Boursiac, Y., …Webb, K. F. (2021). Non-invasive hydrodynamic imaging in plant roots at cellular resolution. Nature Communications, 12(1), 1-7. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-24913-z

A key impediment to studying water-related mechanisms in plants is the inability to non-invasively image water fluxes in cells at high temporal and spatial resolution. Here, we report that Raman microspectroscopy, complemented by hydrodynamic modelli... Read More about Non-invasive hydrodynamic imaging in plant roots at cellular resolution.

Root angle in maize influences nitrogen capture and is regulated by calcineurin B-like protein (CBL)-interacting serine/threonine-protein kinase 15 (ZmCIPK15) (2021)
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Schneider, H. M., Lor, V. S. N., Hanlon, M. T., Perkins, A., Kaeppler, S. M., Borkar, A. N., …Lynch, J. P. (2022). Root angle in maize influences nitrogen capture and is regulated by calcineurin B-like protein (CBL)-interacting serine/threonine-protein kinase 15 (ZmCIPK15). Plant, Cell and Environment, 45(3), 837-853. https://doi.org/10.1111/pce.14135

Crops with reduced nutrient and water requirements are urgently needed in global agriculture. Root growth angle plays an important role in nutrient and water acquisition. A maize diversity panel of 481 genotypes was screened for variation in root ang... Read More about Root angle in maize influences nitrogen capture and is regulated by calcineurin B-like protein (CBL)-interacting serine/threonine-protein kinase 15 (ZmCIPK15).

OsJAZ11 regulates phosphate starvation responses in rice (2021)
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Pandey, B. K., Verma, L., Prusty, A., Singh, A. P., Bennett, M. J., Tyagi, A. K., …Mehra, P. (2021). OsJAZ11 regulates phosphate starvation responses in rice. Planta, 254(1), 1-16. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00425-021-03657-6

Main conclusion: OsJAZ11 regulates phosphate homeostasis by suppressing jasmonic acid signaling and biosynthesis in rice roots. Abstract: Jasmonic Acid (JA) is a key plant signaling molecule which negatively regulates growth processes including root... Read More about OsJAZ11 regulates phosphate starvation responses in rice.

Uncovering How Auxin Optimizes Root Systems Architecture in Response to Environmental Stresses (2021)
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Leftley, N., Banda, J., Pandey, B., Bennett, M., & Voß, U. (2021). Uncovering How Auxin Optimizes Root Systems Architecture in Response to Environmental Stresses. Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology, 13(11), Article a040014. https://doi.org/10.1101/cshperspect.a040014

Since colonizing land, plants have developed mechanisms to tolerate a broad range of abiotic stresses that include flooding, drought, high salinity, and nutrient limitation. Roots play a key role acclimating plants to these as their developmental pla... Read More about Uncovering How Auxin Optimizes Root Systems Architecture in Response to Environmental Stresses.

Plant roots sense soil compaction through restricted ethylene diffusion (2021)
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Pandey, B. K., Huang, G., Bhosale, R., Hartman, S., Sturrock, C. J., Jose, L., …Bennett, M. J. (2021). Plant roots sense soil compaction through restricted ethylene diffusion. Science, 371(6526), 276-280. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.abf3013

© 2021 The Authors, some rights reserved. Soil compaction represents a major challenge for modern agriculture. Compaction is intuitively thought to reduce root growth by limiting the ability of roots to penetrate harder soils. We report that root gro... Read More about Plant roots sense soil compaction through restricted ethylene diffusion.

Perceptions and Experiences of the University of Nottingham Pilot SARS-CoV-2 Asymptomatic Testing Service: A Mixed-Methods Study (2020)
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Blake, H., Corner, J., Cirelli, C., Hassard, J., Briggs, L., Daly, J. M., …Ball, J. (2021). Perceptions and Experiences of the University of Nottingham Pilot SARS-CoV-2 Asymptomatic Testing Service: A Mixed-Methods Study. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 18(1), 1-26. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18010188

© 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. We aimed to explore student and staff perceptions and experiences of a pilot SARS-CoV-2 asymptomatic testing service (P-ATS) in a UK university campus setting. This was a mixed-method study co... Read More about Perceptions and Experiences of the University of Nottingham Pilot SARS-CoV-2 Asymptomatic Testing Service: A Mixed-Methods Study.

Arabidopsis antibody resources for functional studies in plants (2020)
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Oh, J., Wilson, M., Hill, K., Leftley, N., Hodgman, C., Bennett, M. J., & Swarup, R. (2020). Arabidopsis antibody resources for functional studies in plants. Scientific Reports, 10(1), Article 21945. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-78689-1

© 2020, The Author(s). Here we report creation of a unique and a very valuable resource for Plant Scientific community worldwide. In this era of post-genomics and modelling of multi-cellular systems using an integrative systems biology approach, bett... Read More about Arabidopsis antibody resources for functional studies in plants.

A network of transcriptional repressors modulates auxin responses (2020)
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Truskina, J., Han, J., Chrysanthou, E., Galvan-Ampudia, C. S., Lainé, S., Brunoud, G., …Vernoux, T. (2020). A network of transcriptional repressors modulates auxin responses. Nature, 589, 116–119. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-2940-2

The regulation of signalling capacity, combined with the spatiotemporal distribution of developmental signals themselves, is pivotal in setting developmental responses in both plants and animals. The hormone auxin is a key signal for plant growth and... Read More about A network of transcriptional repressors modulates auxin responses.

A mini foxtail millet with an Arabidopsis-like life cycle as a C4 model system (2020)
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Yang, Z., Zhang, H., Li, X., Shen, H., Gao, J., Hou, S., …Wang, X. (2020). A mini foxtail millet with an Arabidopsis-like life cycle as a C4 model system. Nature Plants, 6, 1167–1178. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41477-020-0747-7

Over the past few decades, several plant species, including Arabidopsis thaliana, Brachypodium distachyon and rice (Oryza sativa), have been adopted as model plants for various aspects of research. These species, especially Arabidopsis, have had vita... Read More about A mini foxtail millet with an Arabidopsis-like life cycle as a C4 model system.

Evaluating the role of surgical sterilisation in canine rabies control: A systematic review of impact and outcomes (2020)
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Collinson, A., Bennett, M., Brennan, M. L., Dean, R., & Stavisky, J. (2020). Evaluating the role of surgical sterilisation in canine rabies control: A systematic review of impact and outcomes. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 14(8), https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0008497

© 2020 Collinson et al. Current recommendations for the elimination of canine-mediated human rabies focus on mass dog vaccination as the most feasible and cost-effective strategy. However, attempts to control rabies are often combined with canine sur... Read More about Evaluating the role of surgical sterilisation in canine rabies control: A systematic review of impact and outcomes.

Positioning the Root Elongation Zone Is Saltatory and Receives Input from the Shoot (2020)
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Baskin, T. I., Preston, S., Zelinsky, E., Yang, X., Elmali, M., Bellos, D., …Bennett, M. J. (2020). Positioning the Root Elongation Zone Is Saltatory and Receives Input from the Shoot. iScience, 23(7), Article 101309. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2020.101309

In the root, meristem and elongation zone lengths remain stable, despite growth and division of cells. To gain insight into zone stability, we imaged individual Arabidopsis thaliana roots through a horizontal microscope, and used image analysis to ob... Read More about Positioning the Root Elongation Zone Is Saltatory and Receives Input from the Shoot.

The CEP5 peptide promotes abiotic stress tolerance, as revealed by quantitative proteomics, and attenuates the AUX/IAA equilibrium in Arabidopsis (2020)
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Smith, S., Zhu, S., Joos, L., Roberts, I., Nikonorova, N., Vu, L. D., …De Smet, I. (2020). The CEP5 peptide promotes abiotic stress tolerance, as revealed by quantitative proteomics, and attenuates the AUX/IAA equilibrium in Arabidopsis. Molecular and Cellular Proteomics, 19(8), 1248-1262. https://doi.org/10.1074/mcp.ra119.001826

Peptides derived from non-functional precursors play important roles in various developmental processes, but also in (a)biotic stress signaling. Our (phospho)proteome-wide analyses of C-terminally encoded peptide 5 (CEP5)-mediated changes revealed an... Read More about The CEP5 peptide promotes abiotic stress tolerance, as revealed by quantitative proteomics, and attenuates the AUX/IAA equilibrium in Arabidopsis.

An extended root phenotype: the rhizosphere, its formation and impacts on plant fitness (2020)
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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.

Retrieval of the Complete Coding Sequence of the UK-Endemic Tatenale Orthohantavirus Reveals Extensive Strain Variation and Supports Its Classification as a Novel Species (2020)
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Chappell, J. G., Tsoleridis, T., Onianwa, O., Drake, G., Ashpole, I., Dobbs, P., …McClure, C. P. (2020). Retrieval of the Complete Coding Sequence of the UK-Endemic Tatenale Orthohantavirus Reveals Extensive Strain Variation and Supports Its Classification as a Novel Species. Viruses, 12(4), Article 454. https://doi.org/10.3390/v12040454

©2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. Orthohantaviruses are globally distributed viruses, associated with rodents and other small mammals. However, data on the circulation of orthohantaviruses within the UK, particularly the UK-end... Read More about Retrieval of the Complete Coding Sequence of the UK-Endemic Tatenale Orthohantavirus Reveals Extensive Strain Variation and Supports Its Classification as a Novel Species.

Auxin fluxes through plasmodesmata modify root-tip auxin distribution (2020)
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Mellor, N. L., Voß, U., Janes, G., Bennett, M. J., Wells, D. M., & Band, L. R. (2020). Auxin fluxes through plasmodesmata modify root-tip auxin distribution. Development, 147(6), Article dev181669. https://doi.org/10.1242/dev.181669

© 2020. Published by The Company of Biologists Ltd. Auxin is a key signal regulating plant growth and development. It is well established that auxin dynamics depend on the spatial distribution of efflux and influx carriers on the cell membranes. In t... Read More about Auxin fluxes through plasmodesmata modify root-tip auxin distribution.

Molecular detection of arthropod-borne pathogens in Eurasian badgers (Meles meles) from the United Kingdom (2020)
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Guardone, L., Ebani, V. V., Verin, R., Nardoni, S., Consolazione, A., Bennett, M., & Mancianti, F. (2020). Molecular detection of arthropod-borne pathogens in Eurasian badgers (Meles meles) from the United Kingdom. Animals, 10(3), https://doi.org/10.3390/ani10030446

© 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. Arthropod-borne diseases (ABD) are of increasing interest in veterinary and public health. Eurasian badgers (Meles meles) are known to harbor a wide range of pathogens, but information on thei... Read More about Molecular detection of arthropod-borne pathogens in Eurasian badgers (Meles meles) from the United Kingdom.

Genetic analysis of the Arabidopsis TIR1/AFB auxin receptors reveals both overlapping and specialized functions (2020)
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Prigge, M. J., Platre, M., Kadakia, N., Zhang, Y., Greenham, K., Szutu, W., …Estelle, M. (2020). Genetic analysis of the Arabidopsis TIR1/AFB auxin receptors reveals both overlapping and specialized functions. eLife, 9, Article e54740. https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.54740

© 2020, Prigge et al. The TIR1/AFB auxin co-receptors mediate diverse responses to the plant hormone auxin. The Arabidopsis genome encodes six TIR1/AFB proteins representing three of the four clades that were established prior to angiosperm radiation... Read More about Genetic analysis of the Arabidopsis TIR1/AFB auxin receptors reveals both overlapping and specialized functions.

CEP receptor signalling controls root system architecture in Arabidopsis and Medicago (2020)
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Chapman, K., Ivanovici, A., Taleski, M., Sturrock, C. J., Ng, J. L., Mohd‐Radzman, N. A., …Djordjevic, M. A. (2020). CEP receptor signalling controls root system architecture in Arabidopsis and Medicago. New Phytologist, 226(6), 1809-1821. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.16483

© 2020 The Authors. New Phytologist © 2020 New Phytologist Trust Root system architecture (RSA) influences the effectiveness of resources acquisition from soils but the genetic networks that control RSA remain largely unclear. We used rhizoboxes, X-r... Read More about CEP receptor signalling controls root system architecture in Arabidopsis and Medicago.