Volume 29, No 12, Dec 2019

ISSN: 1001-0602 
EISSN: 1748-7838 2018 
impact factor 17.848* 
(Clarivate Analytics, 2019)

Volume 29 Issue 12, December 2019: 965-966

RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS

Defying gravity: a plant’s quest for moisture

Scott A. Sinclair ¹ and Jiří Friml ¹

¹Cell and Developmental Biology of Plants, Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 3400 Klosterneuburg, Austria
Correspondence: Jiří. Friml (jiri.friml@ist.ac.at)

Roots grow downwards parallel to the gravity vector, to anchor a plant in soil and acquire water and nutrients, using a gravitropic mechanism dependent on the asymmetric distribution of the phytohormone auxin. Recently, Chang et al. demonstrate that asymmetric distribution of another phytohormone, cytokinin, directs root growth towards higher water content.

https://doi.org/10.1038/s41422-019-0254-4

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