Researchers have found that plant root tips commonly converged to a catenary-curved shape because of restrictions imposed by one-directional and localized tissue growth. Plant roots need to be able to ...

Root rot: These two little words can strike fear in the heart of any plant parent. But what exactly is this mysterious horticultural affliction — and does it mean saying goodbye to your snake plant or ...

You can’t construct a strong building on a weak foundation, and you can’t grow a great corn crop on a weak root system. From freezing temperatures to voracious underground pests and other threats, ...

This is a confocal laser scanning micrograph of an Arabidopsis root tip in which the cell outlines are marked in green by a fluorescent protein. The orange region marks stem cells that died after ...

New time-lapse videos capture something that's too slow for our eyes to see: the growing tips of plant roots make corkscrew-like motions, waggling and winding in a helical path as they burrow into the ...

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 ...