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There's a new @plantphys.bsky.social focus issue out on #RootDevelopment:

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#PlantScience #RootBiology #PlantRoots #PlantDevelopment
Issues | Plant Physiology | Oxford Academic
Plant Physiology is an international journal devoted to physiology, biochemistry, cellular and molecular biology, genetics, biophysics, and environmental biology of plants
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December 3, 2024 at 8:29 PM
plantcellphysiol.bsky.social
Excellent plenary talk by Matyas Fendrych on the role of #auxin and pH in root growth, kick-starting day 3 of #ICAR2025

Read more on the effects of pH in root growth👇By Diaz-Ardila & @christianhardtke.bsky.social

doi.org/10.1093/pcp/...

#plantscience #rootbiology
June 18, 2025 at 7:57 AM
somssich.bsky.social
📜 Establishment and functions of the Casparian strip

🧑‍🔬 @swatimahiwal.bsky.social, @tonnigrubeandersen.bsky.social, Defeng Shen

📔 @mplantpcom.bsky.social

🔗 www.cell.com/molecular-pl...

#️⃣ #PlantScience #PlantDevelopment #CasparianStrip #PlantCellWalls #Nodules #RootBiology
Establishment and functions of the Casparian strip
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July 7, 2025 at 2:01 PM
rootstrapping.bsky.social
Membrane trafficking meets root barriers, resilience, and carbon storage 🌱🌍
New discovery: Blocking clathrin-mediated endocytosis in Arabidopsis roots sparks ROS bursts → ectopic suberization. This might unlock ways to increase suberization in roots and C in soils
#PlantScience #RootBiology #Suberin
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October 2, 2025 at 1:06 PM
akshay-tawale.bsky.social
Happy to share that I've been featured in the latest newsletter from the International Society of Root Research (ISRR)!

You can check it out the newsletter here: www.rootresearch.org/s/Welcome-to...

#cerealroots #plantscience #rootbiology
July 5, 2026 at 7:31 PM
somssich.bsky.social
📜 Hormonal regulation of primary root development

🧑‍🔬 Michela De Nittis, Mirko De Vivo, @raffolab.bsky.social, Sabrina Sabatini

📔 @cp-cellreports.bsky.social

🔗 www.cell.com/cell-reports...

#️⃣ #PlantScience #RootBiology #PlantRoots #Phytohormones #Auxin #Cytokinin #PlantDevelopment
Hormonal regulation of primary root development
Dynamic hormone networks orchestrate Arabidopsis root meristem growth. In this review, Nittis et al. highlight recent advances in how these regulatory systems shape root development and discuss their ...
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May 28, 2025 at 4:24 AM
gpandharikar.bsky.social
I am looking forward to this next chapter, new scientific challenges, and new collaborations ahead.

#INRAE #Research #PlantScience #Microbiome #Rhizosphere #RootBiology #Ecology #Agriculture #CareerMilestone #Science #Dijon
June 18, 2026 at 1:21 PM
plantcellphysiol.bsky.social
Not so lonely now...! 👥🛣️

Ohashi-Ito et al. demonstrate that LONESOME HIGHWAY and its homolog LL3 play distinct yet redundant roles in regulating cell proliferation during #root vascular development

🛋️ doi.org/10.1093/pcp/...

#PlantScience
#RootBiology
#PlantDevelopment
confocal images of four root tips and their transverse sections
February 5, 2026 at 11:39 AM
somssich.bsky.social
📜 At the grass roots: non-destructive root phenotyping using X-ray computed tomography

🧑‍🔬 @gwenkirschner.bsky.social

📔 @theplantjournal.bsky.social

🔗 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

#️⃣ #PlantScience #RootBiology #PlantRoots #PlantImaging
At the grass roots: non‐destructive root phenotyping using X‐ray computed tomography
Click on the article title to read more.
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February 25, 2025 at 10:05 AM
leonardojo.bsky.social
Contrary to my previous belief, root size doesn't seem to determine the number of xylem poles. Legume roots of different "thickness" can display 3 or 4 xylem poles. What could be the genetic basis (evo-devo) of different xylem pole numbers? #rootbiology #plantbiology
December 6, 2023 at 4:43 PM
somssich.bsky.social
📜 Rooting for survival: how plants tackle a challenging environment through a diversity of root forms and functions

🧑‍🔬 @prshanth.bsky.social, Andrea Ramirez, @josedinneny.bsky.social

📙 @plantphys.bsky.social

🔗 academic.oup.com/plphys/advan...

#️⃣ #PlantScience #RootBiology #PlantPhysiology
Rooting for survival: how plants tackle a challenging environment through a diversity of root forms and functions
Abstract. The current climate crisis has global impacts and will affect the physiology of plants across every continent. Ensuring resilience of our agricul
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December 12, 2024 at 1:22 PM
gsena.bsky.social
Excellent review on positional information in plant #RootDevelopment #RootBiology

Good for thinking, teaching, or both!

doi.org/10.1093/plph...
December 5, 2024 at 12:12 PM
somssich.bsky.social
📜 Engineering crop resilience with synthetic gene circuits

🧑‍🔬 @rootbiologist.bsky.social, @watersmt.bsky.social

📔 @cp-trendsplantsci.bsky.social

🔗 www.cell.com/trends/plant...

#️⃣ #PlantScience #SyntheticBiology #PlantSynBio #RootBiology #PlantStress
Engineering crop resilience with synthetic gene circuits
Engineering crops to withstand environmental stresses is critical for addressing climate change and food insecurity. Recently, Khan et al. developed CRISPR interference (CRISPRi)-based synthetic gene ...
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February 5, 2025 at 7:58 AM
hydrosensing.bsky.social
Together, these insights highlight roots as dynamic, hormone-regulated organs that fine-tune growth to maximise water acquisition in challenging environments.

📄 Full paper: academic.oup.com/jxb/article/76/7/1987/8011474

#PlantScience #RootBiology #Science #Plants #Roots #PlantHormones
January 7, 2026 at 2:15 PM
somssich.bsky.social
📜 The Endodermis

🧑‍🔬 @tonnigrube.bsky.social, Colleen Drapek

📔 Plant Roots

🔗 www.taylorfrancis.com/books/978100...

#️⃣ #PlantScience #RootBiology #Endodermis #PlantDevelopment
The Endodermis 1 | 7 | v5 | Plant Roots | T
The acquisition of “true roots” by land plants some 360 million years ago provided a way to access nutrients from the surrounding substrate. This also gave
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July 11, 2024 at 12:11 PM
lettucecara.bsky.social
Interested in #RootResearch - read our new paper here: plantmethods.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
#RootBiology #PlantScience @giffordlab.bsky.social @vegprof.bsky.social
Rootrainertrons: a novel root phenotyping method used to identify genotypic variation in lettuce rooting - Plant Methods
Background There is much interest in how roots can be manipulated to improve crop performance in a changing climate, yet root research is made difficult by the challenges of visualising the root syste...
plantmethods.biomedcentral.com
March 4, 2025 at 8:17 AM
annbot.bsky.social
🌿Join us to learn about the newly published “An introduction to the fundamentals of root systems research in cultivated plants” in @annbot.bsky.social by Dylan Jones and co-authors. 🧵 (1/10)

👉 doi.org/q9w8

@akshay-tawale.bsky.social

#PlantScience #AoBpapers #Roots #CropScience #RootBiology
An introduction to the fundamentals of root systems research in cultivated plants
June 9, 2026 at 4:27 PM
jipb.bsky.social
Rapid advances in molecular techniques have enriched our understanding of the dynamic changes in the #CellWall during lateral root development. Shang et al. review what we've learned--and what's next!
doi.org/10.1111/jipb...
#PlantScience #RootBiology #PlantDevelopment #Phytohormones
Diagram illustrating the dynamic cell wall changes that occur in root primordia and adjacent cells during lateral root development, with emphasis on the roles of phytohormones, peptides, and biotic and abiotic factors.
February 16, 2025 at 1:16 PM
plantcellphysiol.bsky.social
#JSPP Awards 2025 - PCP Best Paper

Goh et al. track the fascinating sights (and sounds) of root cell division using a combination of microscopy and sonography tracking
doi.org/10.1093/pcp/...
(NB. Be sure to check out the S-data files for cool movies!)

#rootbiology #plantscience #microscopymonday
In-Depth Quantification of Cell Division and Elongation Dynamics at the Tip of Growing Arabidopsis Roots Using 4D Microscopy, AI-Assisted Image Processing and Data Sonification
Abstract. One of the fundamental questions in plant developmental biology is how cell proliferation and cell expansion coordinately determine organ growth
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February 3, 2025 at 1:09 PM
maurazimmermann.bsky.social
Excited our paper on thermomorphogenesis of root growth has been published! Check it out to read up on how root cell division is flexible, elongation is constrained, and cryptochrome2 has a cool role to play in temperature responses. doi.org/10.1093/pcp/...
#plantscience #plantsci #rootbiology
Thermomorphogenesis of the Arabidopsis thaliana Root: Flexible Cell Division, Constrained Elongation and the Role of Cryptochrome
Abstract. Understanding how plants respond to temperature is relevant for agriculture in a warming world. Responses to temperature in the shoot have been c
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October 25, 2024 at 2:54 PM
somssich.bsky.social
📜 Location: root architecture structures rhizosphere microbial associations

🧑‍🔬 Tania Galindo-Castañeda, Martin Hartmann, Jonathan P. Lynch

📔 @jxbotany.bsky.social

🔗 academic.oup.com/jxb/article/...

#️⃣ #PlantScience #RootBiology #PlantMicrobiome #Rhizosphere
Location: root architecture structures rhizosphere microbial associations
Root architecture and soil vertical gradients create a diverse set of physicochemical conditions in which rhizosphere microbes live; however, these scaffolds of
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March 1, 2024 at 7:50 AM
somssich.bsky.social
📜 Location: root architecture structures rhizosphere microbial associations

🧑‍🔬 Tania Galindo-Castañeda, Martin Hartmann, Jonathan P. Lynch

📔 @jxbotany.bsky.social

🔗 academic.oup.com/jxb/article/...

#️⃣ (Feeds) #PlantScience #RootBiology #RootArchitecture #PlantDevelopment #PlantMicrobiome
Location: root architecture structures rhizosphere microbial associations
Root architecture and soil vertical gradients create a diverse set of physicochemical conditions in which rhizosphere microbes live; however, these scaffolds of
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January 29, 2024 at 9:31 AM
plantcellphysiol.bsky.social
🚨New Issue Alert🚨

🔗 academic.oup.com/pcp/issue/66/6

▶️Packed with the latest quality research in #PlantScience: #Stomata, #RootBiology, #PlantBiochemistry, #GeneEditing, #PlantSenescence, #PlantEpigenetics, #PlantDevelopment & much more! 🌱🔬🧬🧑‍🔬

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June 66-6 Issue cover showing plant epidermis with stomata
July 25, 2025 at 9:15 AM
somssich.bsky.social
📜 LAZing Around: The Intricate Dance of Amyloplast Sedimentation and Gravity Sensing in Plants

🧑‍🔬 Ning Zhang, Songtao Gui, Yonghong Wang

📔 Molecular Plant

🔗 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

#️⃣ (Feeds) #PlantScience #PlantDevelopment #Gravitropism #RootBiology #Auxin
LAZing Around: The Intricate Dance of Amyloplast Sedimentation and Gravity Sensing in Plants
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November 9, 2023 at 10:48 AM
annbot.bsky.social
🌱 Thank you to everyone who joined us for #RootStressWeek!

We hope this week brought new perspectives on root science and stimulated discussion around root responses to stress. We truly appreciate your engagement. 💚

#RootBiology #PlantStress #RootPhysiology #PlantScience
Promotional graphic for Annals of Botany reading “Root Stress Week!” with a thank-you message, featuring the Annals of Botany logo on a black background and a colorful fluorescent microscopy image of a plant root cross-section showing red, green, and yellow tissues.
December 22, 2025 at 11:23 AM