Their method involved cutting through the center of the root to get a clear image of the chemicals inside. "To help understand plant roots from the biology side, we needed to find out which ...

New research shows a relationship is sprouting between plant roots and soil fungi. This could lead to the elimination of ...

Adventitious roots are roots that originate from nonstandard locations on a plant such as the stems or leaves. They can occur as part of a plant’s normal growth and development or they can arise ...

with shortening of both cell structures and waviness of root hairs. Neuron images courtesy of Dr. Craig Blackstone, NINDS. Arabidopsis images courtesy of Dr. John Schiefelbein, University of ...

You probably don’t think about plant roots all that much – they’re hidden underground after all. Yet they’re continually changing the shape of the world. This process happens in your ...

The controls enabled the researchers to recruit the plant’s own proteins to drive — or inhibit — root growth. They made the plants express a wide range of programmed root variation, from a sprawling ...

We also need to think about what is going to be happening below ground once the plant takes hold. Roots absorb moisture and nutrients, anchor the plant, and grow in both horizontal and vertical ...