ZmSPL12 Enhances Root Penetration and Elongation in Maize Under Compacted Soil Conditions by Responding to Ethylene Signaling
Hua Xu, Zhigang Zheng, Lei Ma, Qingyun Zhang, Lian Jin, Ke Zhang, Junjie Zou, Hada Wuriyanghan, Miaoyun Xu · 2024
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Description
Hua Xu and co-authors find a gene that helps maize roots push through hard soil in a 2024 paper. Compacted soil squeezes roots and stunts crops across modern farms. A corn gene in the SPL family, switched on by the gas ethylene, stood out in their screens. Plants with extra copies of the gene kept growing roots under pressure that stalled normal plants.
Tissue slices showed the root cap, the root's battering tip, lies at the heart of the effect. The gene tunes the ethylene signal path that steers growth under squeeze. Field soils keep compacting under heavy machines, so inborn push power matters. Breeders can now look for this gene's strong forms in seed lines.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Hua Xu, Zhigang Zheng, Lei Ma, Qingyun Zhang, Lian Jin, Ke Zhang, Junjie Zou, Hada Wuriyanghan, Miaoyun Xu |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 29 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |