Background Suboptimal water and nutrient availability are primary constraints in global
agriculture. Root anatomy plays key roles in soil resource acquisition. In this article we …

The ongoing climate change is characterized by increased temperatures and altered
precipitation patterns. In addition, there has been an increase in both the frequency and …

Functionally similar to the tight junctions present in animal guts, plant roots have evolved a
lignified Casparian strip as an extracellular diffusion barrier in the endodermis to seal the …

Plant roots forage the soil for minerals whose concentrations can be orders of magnitude
away from those required for plant cell function. Selective uptake in multicellular organisms …

Salinity is one of the major abiotic factors threatening food security worldwide. Recently, our
understanding of early processes underlying salinity tolerance has expanded. In this review …

Plant roots integrate environmental signals with development using exquisite spatiotemporal
control. This is apparent in the deposition of suberin, an apoplastic diffusion barrier, which …

Heavy metal (HM)-accumulating herbaceous and woody plants are employed for
phytoremediation. To develop improved strategies for enhancing phytoremediation …

When plants are subjected to high metal exposure, different plant species take different
strategies in response to metal-induced stress. Largely, plants can be distinguished in four …

Acyl lipids in Arabidopsis and all other plants have a myriad of diverse functions. These
include providing the core diffusion barrier of the membranes that separates cells and …

Soil and water salinity substantially constrain crop and biomass production. Research over
the last two plus decades, facilitated by advances in molecular genetics and biotechnology …