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ArticleNature communications2023

A micro RNA mediates shoot control of root branching.

Moritz Sexauer, Hemal Bhasin, Maria Schön, Elena Roitsch, Caroline Wall, Ulrike Herzog, Katharina Markmann

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Article in Nature communications, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.

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13citing papers in PubMed
8.3field-weighted citation impact, top 3% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

13 citing papers in PubMed, 21 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 4 institutions in 2 countries.

Moritz Sexauer *Eberhard-Karls-University, Centre for Molecular Biology of Plants, Tübingen, Germany.ORCID 0000-0003-1475-5167
Hemal Bhasin *Eberhard-Karls-University, Centre for Molecular Biology of Plants, Tübingen, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-8559-464X
Maria SchönEberhard-Karls-University, Centre for Molecular Biology of Plants, Tübingen, Germany.
Elena RoitschEberhard-Karls-University, Centre for Molecular Biology of Plants, Tübingen, Germany.
Caroline WallEberhard-Karls-University, Centre for Molecular Biology of Plants, Tübingen, Germany.
Ulrike HerzogEberhard-Karls-University, Centre for Molecular Biology of Plants, Tübingen, Germany.
Katharina MarkmannEberhard-Karls-University, Centre for Molecular Biology of Plants, Tübingen, Germany. katharina.markmann@uni-wuerzburg.de.ORCID 0000-0003-1257-3490
University of Tübingen · DEStiftung Juliusspital · DEMartin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg · DEThe Scarborough Hospital · CA

Funding

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation) CRC101, project 07Ministerium für Wissenschaft, Forschung und Kunst Baden-Württemberg (Ministry of Science, Research and Art Baden-Württemberg) Az:7533-30-20/1
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Plants extract mineral nutrients from the soil, or from interactions with mutualistic soil microbes via their root systems. Adapting root architecture to nutrient availability enables efficient resource utilization, particularly in patchy and dynamic environments. Root growth responses to soil nitrogen levels are shoot-mediated, but the identity of shoot-derived mobile signals regulating root growth responses has remained enigmatic. Here we show that a shoot-derived micro RNA, miR2111, systemically steers lateral root initiation and nitrogen responsiveness through its root target TML (TOO MUCH LOVE) in the legume Lotus japonicus, where miR2111 and TML were previously shown to regulate symbiotic infections with nitrogen fixing bacteria. Intriguingly, systemic control of lateral root initiation by miR2111 and TML/HOLT (HOMOLOGUE OF LEGUME TML) was conserved in the nonsymbiotic ruderal Arabidopsis thaliana, which follows a distinct ecological strategy. Thus, the miR2111-TML/HOLT regulon emerges as an essential, conserved factor in adaptive shoot control of root architecture in dicots.

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LotusMicroRNAsNitrogenPlant RootsSoilMicroRNAsNitrogenSoil

Identifiers

PMID38057302
PMCPMC10700597
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