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Root suberin forms an extracellular barrier that affects water relations and mineral nutrition in Arabidopsis.
PLoS genetics - 1 May 2009
Baxter Ivan, Hosmani Prashant S, Rus Ana, Lahner Brett, Borevitz Justin O, Muthukumar Balasubramaniam, Mickelbart Michael V, Schreiber Lukas, Franke Rochus B, Salt David E
Abstract excerpt
Though central to our understanding of how roots perform their vital function of scavenging water and solutes from the soil, no direct genetic evidence currently exists to support the foundational model that suberin acts to form a chemical barrier limiting the extracellular, or apoplastic, transport of water and solutes in plant roots. Using the newly characterized enhanced suberin1 (esb1) mutant, we established...
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