Plant roots provide the crops we eat with water, nutrients and anchorage. Understanding how roots grow and how hormones control that growth is crucial to improving crop yields, necessary to address food security and produce better biofuels.
Scientists have now shed light on how a plant hormone is crucial in controlling the growth of plant roots.
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