Climate change is driving extreme changes to the environment, posing substantial threats to global food security and bioenergy. Given the direct role of plant roots in mediating plant-environment interactions, engineering the form and function of root sy
A number of unrelated groups have developed structures known as pneumatophores which are simple upward extensions from the horizontal root into the air above. These are best developed in Avicennia and Sonneratia (Figure 1C), the former typically having narrow, pencil-like pneumatophores, the latt...
The results are consistent with the involvement of the plant chitinases in defense against pathogens like fungi that have chitin exoskeletons. In summary, we have characterized the functional features and structural domains necessary for the activity of two plant root chitinases that...
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 exogenous
these fungi can form ericoid mycorrhizae or ectomycorrhizae while some isolates behave as so-called “mycorrhizal-like” fungi capable of transferring nutrients to their hosts in a non-symbiotic way,i.e.without forming differentiated cellular structures inside plant roots, and without proven nutritional...
tooth - hard bonelike structures in the jaws of vertebrates; used for biting and chewing or for attack and defense cementum, cement - a specialized bony substance covering the root of a tooth Verb 1. root - take root and begin to grow; "this plant roots quickly" grow - become larger,...
Rooting for the root of elongation factor-like protein phylogeny Lateral gene transfer (LGT) may play a pivotal role in the evolution of elongation factor-like (EFL) genes in eukaryotes. To date, numbers of putative case... R Kamikawa,M Sakaguchi,T Matsumoto,... - 《Molecular Phylogenetics ...
While the establishment of a molecular dialogue between the root cells and the mycorrhizal and endophytic fungi likely explain the delayed colonisation by these fungi, other mechanisms presumably drive this colonisation. For example, root exudates are expected to play a key role in the chemoattraction...
New structures such as root axes and flowers require an investment in resources whose returns depend on how appropriate the structure is for the prevailing environmental conditions. Due to a finite metabolic budget and environmental unpredictability, resource allocation decisions can establish trade-offs ...
Root Channels In subject area: Agricultural and Biological Sciences Pore linings are the zones of Fe accumulations that lie along ped surfaces or root channels. From: CATENA, 2019 About this pageAdd to MendeleySet alert Discover other topics ...