P is an important plant macronutrient, making up about 0.2% of a plant’s dry weight. It is a
component of key molecules such as nucleic acids, phospholipids, and ATP, and, …

Lateral roots originate deep within the parental root from a small number of founder cells at
the periphery of vascular tissues and must emerge through intervening layers of tissues. We …

POTASSIUM is the most abundant cation in higher plants and is crucial for plant nutrition,
growth, tropisms, enzyme homeostasis and osmoregulation 1–4 . K + accumulation can be rate…

Chemical signals are important for plant adaptation to water stress. As soils become dry, root-sourced
signals are transported via the xylem to leaves and result in reduced water loss …

Increased salt tolerance is needed for crops grown in areas at risk of salinisation. This requires
new genetic sources of salt tolerance, and more efficient techniques for identifying salt-…

Potassium (K + ) is an essential nutrient required by plants in large quantities, but changes
in soil concentrations may limit K + acquisition by roots. It is not known how plant root cells …

Plants often grow in soils that contain very low concentrations of the macronutrients nitrogen,
phosphorus, potassium, and sulfur. To adapt and grow in nutrient-deprived environments …

Plant root sensing and adaptation to changes in the nutrient status of soils is vital for long-term
productivity and growth. Reactive oxygen species (ROS) have been shown to play a role …

In plants, auxin is a key regulator of development and is unique among plant hormones in
that its function requires polarized transport between neighboring cells to form concentration …

Inward-rectifying potassium channels located in the plasma membrane of higher plant and
animal cells contribute to cellular homeostasis and excitability. The genes encoding this …