Root suberin forms an extracellular barrier that affects water relations and mineral nutrition in Arabidopsis.
Though central to our understanding of how roots perform their vital function of scavenging water and solutes from the soil, no direct genetic evidence currently exists to support the foundational model that suberin acts to form a chemical barrier limiting the extracellular, or apoplastic, transport...
| Main Authors: | , , , , , , , , , |
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2009-05-01
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| Series: | PLoS Genetics |
| Online Access: | http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2679201?pdf=render |