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Auxin-mediated root branching is determined by the form of available nitrogen.
Nature plants - 1 Sept 2020
Meier Markus, Liu Ying, Lay-Pruitt Katerina S, Takahashi Hideki, von Wirén Nicolaus
Abstract excerpt
To improve water and nutrient acquisition from the soil, plants can modulate their root system architecture. Despite the importance of changes in root architecture to exploit local nutrient patches occurring in heterogenous soils or after placed fertilization, mechanisms integrating external nutrient signals into the root developmental programme remain poorly understood. Here, we show that local ammonium supply...
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