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This project explores how plants adapt their root structures in response to water availability, a process called Xerobranching. By investigating the hormonal regulation of this response, the research aims to enhance crop performance and resource foraging abilities.
Plant roots forage for key resources like water and nutrients which are often distributed heterogeneously in soil.
Plants optimize foraging by employing adaptive responses to modify their root shape.
The host laboratory recently discovered (using non-invasive X-ray microCT imaging) that root branching is tightly regulated by the availability of soil moisture.
For example, roots growing through an air-filled space transiently repress root branching until re-entering moist soil.
This new root adap…
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