roots

The University of California, Davis, professor is a pioneer in teasing apart the changes in gene expression that drive root development.

Defects in the response to fire-generated karrikins turn out to be responsible for root anomalies that were previously ascribed to other plant hormones.

The plant geneticist has revolutionized researchers’ understanding of how light affects plant growth and development, and is engineering plants to combat climate change.

An agroecology grad student creates rhizosphere-inspired art.

Water flows between a dead-looking stump and nearby trees on an alternating schedule.

Cells within the growing root tip of an Arabidopsis plant elongate and divide, driving it forward in search of nutrients.

Plants communicate and interact with each other, both aboveground and below, in surprisingly subtle and sophisticated ways.

As the planet warms plant growth will likely increase—locking up some of that extra carbon dioxide by converting it into vegetative biomass—but that’s not the whole story.