Plant Cell Biology: How to Give Root Hairs Enough ROPs?

Thomas Stanislas; Yvon Jaillais

doi:10.1016/j.cub.2019.04.023

Plant Cell Biology: How to Give Root Hairs Enough ROPs?

Curr Biol. 2019 Jun 3;29(11):R405-R407. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2019.04.023.

Authors

Thomas Stanislas¹, Yvon Jaillais²

Affiliations

¹ Center for Plant Molecular Biology (ZMBP), University of Tübingen, Auf der Morgenstelle 32, 72076, Tübingen, Germany.
² Laboratoire Reproduction et Développement des Plantes, Université de Lyon, ENS de Lyon, UCB Lyon 1, CNRS, INRA, Lyon 69342, France. Electronic address: yvon.jaillais@ens-lyon.fr.

PMID: 31163141
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2019.04.023

Abstract

Root hairs are precisely positioned close to the rootward end of epidermal cells. A new study shows that the successful production of root hairs is a two-step process with different molecular players driving the initial cell polarization and subsequent hair outgrowth.

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MeSH terms

Arabidopsis*
Plant Cells*
Plant Roots