Nitrogen fertilizers used in agriculture contribute significantly to global warming. A new breeding concept, specifically for ...

In an advance for agriculture, a new study reveals how wheat plants actively influence the microbial communities living on and inside their roots—and how these root microbiomes change over time ...

Nodal, brace and prop roots often occur during normal plant development. For example, corn produces prop roots which are visible at the base of the corn stalk. Other plants will root from above ...

The researchers identified that wheat plants with a loss-of-function mutation in the opriii genes had longer seminal roots compared with the control. They found that the plants with transgenic ...

Hui Qiong Zheng, L. Andrew Staehelin, Nodal Endoplasmic Reticulum, a Specialized Form of Endoplasmic Reticulum Found in Gravity-Sensing Root Tip Columella Cells, Plant Physiology, Vol. 125, No. 1, ...

For example, severe mesocotyl damage to young corn seedlings (before nutritional dependance is shifted to the nodal root system) can cause complete plant death due to the loss of energy and nutrient ...

Maize roots secrete certain chemicals that affect the quality of soil. In some fields, this effect increases yields of wheat planted subsequent to maize in the same soil by more than 4%. While the ...

Wheat's ancient roots of viral resistance uncovered. ScienceDaily. Retrieved July 23, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2023 / 03 / 230306163009.htm. University of Melbourne.

In an advance for agriculture, a new study reveals how wheat plants actively influence the microbial communities living on and inside their roots—and how these root microbiomes change over time ...

It also offers a clearer picture of how root microbiomes adapt and reassemble in response to seasonal and environmental stress. Identifying microbes naturally suited to drought conditions may one day ...