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Root development: Pulse control

Nature Plants volume 1, Article number: 15148 (2015) Cite this article

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The length of root hairs, a critical determinant of a plant's absorption capacity, is dictated by a translational pulse of the transcription factor RSL4. The intensity and duration of this pulse depends on the integration of endogenous and environmental information that tunes the phenotypic readout to the environment.

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Figure 1: Integration of environmental and developmental signals defines the length of root hairs.

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  1. Wolfgang Schmidt is at the Institute of Plant and Molecular Biology at Academia Sinica, Taipei 11529, Taiwan.,

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