INTRODUCTION The plant root grows indeterminately. Continual birth and maturation of
cells in a gradient along the root longitudinal axis requires tissue-wide coordination of cell …

Cell–cell communication and interaction is critical during fertilization and triggers free
cytosolic calcium ([Ca 2+ ] cyto ) as a key signal for egg activation and a polyspermy block in …

Root hairs are tubular protrusions of the root epidermis that significantly enlarge the
exploitable soil volume in the rhizosphere. Trichoblasts, the cell type responsible for root hair …

How plant cells re-establish differential growth to initiate organs is poorly understood.
Morphogenesis of lateral roots relies on the asymmetric cell division of initially symmetric founder …

Calcium gradients underlie polarization in eukaryotic cells. In plants, a tip‐focused Ca 2+ ‐gradient
is fundamental for rapid and unidirectional cell expansion during epidermal root hair …

Soluble N-ethylmaleimide–sensitive factor attachment protein receptor (SNARE) proteins
are key players in cellular trafficking and coordinate vital cellular processes, such as …

To understand cell biological processes, like signalling pathways, protein movements, or
metabolic processes, precise tools for manipulation are desired. Optogenetics allows to control …

Formation of root hairs involves the targeted recruitment of the cellular growth machinery to
the root hair initiation domain (RHID), a specialized site at the plasma membrane (PM) of …

mRNA translation is tightly regulated by various classes of RNA-binding proteins (RBPs)
during development and in response to changing environmental conditions. In this study, we …

During plant fertilisation, excess male gametes compete for a limited number of female
gametes. The dormant male gametophyte, encapsulated in the pollen grain, consists of two …