Across the globe, soil compaction is becoming an ever more serious challenge. Heavy vehicles and machinery in modern ...

Researchers from Osaka University, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, and Kobe University find that plant root tips are constrained to a dome shape, similar to that of an arched bridge, because ...

Scientists have developed a toolbox of transcriptional regulators for plants and show that they can be used to construct synthetic genetic circuits that predictably modify root growth. Their work is ...

Researchers have discovered that bacteria from the plant microbiota are adapted to their host species. They show how root-associated bacteria have a competitive advantage when colonizing their native ...

Across the globe, soil compaction is becoming an ever more serious challenge. Heavy vehicles and machinery in modern agriculture compress the soil to ...

A common gardening worry – especially when choosing plants – is pot plants becoming root bound. But Millie explains that this is not a problem with every type of plant. You can feel when a plant’s ...

Seven fully excavated 16 year-old root systems of Sitka spruce were analysed. All roots in excess of 1 cm diameter at their origin on the stumps were analysed, data being collected until root diameter ...

Plants do not have a heart, blood or a circulation system, but they do need a transport system to move food, water and minerals around. The absorbed water is transported through the roots to the rest ...