Nature Communications (Apr 2018)

Rice auxin influx carrier OsAUX1 facilitates root hair elongation in response to low external phosphate

  • Jitender Giri,
  • Rahul Bhosale,
  • Guoqiang Huang,
  • Bipin K. Pandey,
  • Helen Parker,
  • Susan Zappala,
  • Jing Yang,
  • Anne Dievart,
  • Charlotte Bureau,
  • Karin Ljung,
  • Adam Price,
  • Terry Rose,
  • Antoine Larrieu,
  • Stefan Mairhofer,
  • Craig J. Sturrock,
  • Philip White,
  • Lionel Dupuy,
  • Malcolm Hawkesford,
  • Christophe Perin,
  • Wanqi Liang,
  • Benjamin Peret,
  • Charlie T. Hodgman,
  • Jonathan Lynch,
  • Matthias Wissuwa,
  • Dabing Zhang,
  • Tony Pridmore,
  • Sacha J. Mooney,
  • Emmanuel Guiderdoni,
  • Ranjan Swarup,
  • Malcolm J. Bennett

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-03850-4
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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Plant root architecture can adapt to different nutrient conditions in the soil. Here Giri et al. show that the rice auxin influx carrier AUX1 mobilizes auxin from the root apex to the differentiation zone and promotes root hair elongation when roots encounter low external phosphate.