Integrating maths and plant science to explain how plant roots generate a hormone gradient
Loading video... VIDEO: Illustrates that differential cell permeability is the key to creating the exogenous-GA-generated gradient. Technical detail: The time-course shows a root treated with nlsGPS1 growing in Rootchip18S with GA at standard (pH... view more Credit: Sainsbury Lab, University of Cambridge and University of Nottingham The research team that developed a biosensor that first recorded that a distinct gradient of the plant growth hormone gibberellin correlated with plant cell size has now revealed how this distribution pattern is created in roots. Starting when a plant em...
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