ArticleScience (New York, N.Y.)2025
Moisture-responsive root-branching pathways identified in diverse maize breeding germplasm.
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- Integrating soil imaging with spatial omics to uncover root-soil interactions.Plant communications · 2026Review
- Genetic dissection of root traits in barley identifies major QTLs and domestication signature.Plant cell reports · 2026Article
- Genotypic Variation in Maize Root Hydrotropism and Its Association with Shoot Growth and Water Use Efficiency Under Partial Root-Zone Drying.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
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- Divergent selection in moisture-responsive root-branching pathways between tropical and temperate maize germplasm.Journal of integrative plant biology · 2025Article
- Microbial drivers of root plasticity.The New phytologist · 2025Review
- Quantitative genetics of photosynthetic trait variation in maize.Journal of experimental botany · 2025Article
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- Genetic Dissection of Drought Tolerance in Maize Through GWAS of Agronomic Traits, Stress Tolerance Indices, and Phenotypic Plasticity.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025Article
- Roles of hormones in regulating root growth-water interactions.Journal of experimental botany · 2025Review
- Ethylene Signaling Modulates Dehydrin Expression inInternational journal of molecular sciences · 2025Article
- Moisture-responsive root-branching pathways identified in diverse maize breeding germplasm.Science (New York, N.Y.) · 2025Article
- Auxin Signaling Mediated Spatial Accommodation Mechanisms During Lateral Root Development.Physiologia plantarumReview
- The Invisible Frontline: High-Tech Root Imaging for Crop Stress Adaptation.Physiologia plantarumReview
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Abstract
Plants grow complex root systems to extract unevenly distributed resources from soils. Spatial differences in soil moisture are perceived by root tips, leading to the patterning of new root branches toward available water in a process called hydropatterning. Little is known about hydropatterning behavior and its genetic basis in crop plants. Here, we developed an assay to measure hydropatterning in maize and revealed substantial differences between tropical/subtropical and temperate maize breeding germplasm that likely resulted from divergent selection. Genetic analysis of hydropatterning confirmed the regulatory role of auxin and revealed that the gaseous hormone ethylene locally inhibits root branching from air-exposed tissues. Our results demonstrate how distinct signaling pathways translate spatial patterns of water availability to developmental programs that determine root architecture.
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