Nature Communications (Jun 2018)

Rice actin binding protein RMD controls crown root angle in response to external phosphate

  • Guoqiang Huang,
  • Wanqi Liang,
  • Craig J. Sturrock,
  • Bipin K. Pandey,
  • Jitender Giri,
  • Stefan Mairhofer,
  • Daoyang Wang,
  • Lukas Muller,
  • Hexin Tan,
  • Larry M. York,
  • Jing Yang,
  • Yu Song,
  • Yu-Jin Kim,
  • Yang Qiao,
  • Jian Xu,
  • Stefan Kepinski,
  • Malcolm J. Bennett,
  • Dabing Zhang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-04710-x
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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The orientation of plant roots responds to gravity and influences nutrient acquisition. Here the authors show that the formin RMD buffers movement of specialized gravity-sensing organelles and report enhanced RMD expression during phosphate deficiency that could alter root angle to improve phosphate uptake.