Sentence examples for alter root from inspiring English sources

Some of these genes alter root development by affecting root cell wall constitution.

For example, they influence the activity of shoot apical meristem in rice (Kurakawa et al. 2007) and alter root or shoot morphology in A. thaliana (Kuroha et al. 2009).

Belter and Cahill (2015) present a comparative analysis of how plants alter root system morphology in response to neighbours.

Like AHLs, NAEs can alter root system architecture, with the exogenous addition of NAEs (>10 μM) significantly reducing root elongation.

Here, we build upon behavioural concepts and approaches to better understand how plants alter root growth in the context of social interactions.

Here we used a comparative approach to identify novel behavioural strategies in how plants alter root growth in response to neighbours.

It is known that PGPR affect root hormone concentration, and can also alter root-to-shoot long-distance signalling to mediate shoot hormonal status [ 33].

This aspect is worthy of further study in the future, particularly considering that there are many easily achievable ways (e.g., covering the root-zone soil surface with plastic sheet or rice straw) to alter root-zone temperature.

However, future GM crops will involve new sets of traits, some of them (e.g. altered root architectures) affecting yields of existing products via fundamental alterations to plant physiologies and others (e.g. crop biofactories) producing fundamentally new products.

This example shows that a considerable improvement in drought tolerance can be achieved by altering root growth patterns and opens up the possibility of introducing DRO1 in shallow-rooting crops other than rice through the use of genetic engineering.

Yang, H., Hu, J., Long, X., Liu, Z. & Rengel, Z. Salinity altered root distribution and increased diversity of bacterial communities in the rhizosphere soil of Jerusalem artichoke.