When plants emerged from their aquatic origins to colonise land, they needed to avoid
desiccation while still enabling gas and water exchange with the environment. The solution …

Plant roots are essential for overall plant development, growth, and performance by
providing anchorage in the soil and uptake of nutrients and water. The primary root of higher …

Plant root development is informed by numerous edaphic cues. Phosphate (Pi) availability
impacts the root system architecture by adjusting meristem activity. However, the sensory …

The phytohormone salicylic acid (SA) is well known for its induction of pathogenesis-related
proteins and systemic acquired resistance; SA also has specific effects on plant growth and …

Precise control of cell division is essential for proper patterning and growth during the
development of multicellular organisms. Coordination of formative divisions that generate …

Plasmodesmata (PD) are nano-sized membrane-lined channels controlling intercellular
communication in plants. Although progress has been made in identifying PD proteins, the …

Regeneration of a tissue damaged by injury represents a physiological response for organ
recovery 1–3. Although this regeneration process is conserved across multicellular taxa …

Precise spatiotemporal control of the timing and extent of asymmetric cell divisions (ACDs) is
essential for plant development. In the Arabidopsis root, ground tissue maturation involves …

Oriented cell divisions are crucial for determining the overall morphology and size of plants,
but what controls the onset and duration of this process remains largely unknown. Here, we …

More than a quarter of the primary productivity on land, and a large fraction of the food that
humans consume, is contributed by plants that fix atmospheric CO2 by C4 photosynthesis. It …