Root architecture
Although hidden in the ground and therefore often neglected, roots are important plant organs: they serve as anchorage, take up water and nutrients and interact with microbes in the soil. We analyse mutants affected in root system architecture of the important crop plants maize and barley to identify key genes that shape the complex root-stocks of these plants.
In collaboration with Forschungszentrum Jülich, IBG-2: Plant Sciences
Collection of transcriptomic data generated within the research focus on root architecture:
RNA-Seq data of a diverse root types and tissues of the maize inbred line B73:
Root hairs and primary roots without root hairs: NCBI Bioproject accession PRJNA319929; Hey et al. 2017 PubMed
Primary, seminal and crown roots early in development: NCBI Bioproject accession PRJNA289458; Tai et al. 2016 PubMed
Stelle tissue of shoot-borne roots in response to local high nitrate stimulation: NCBI Bioproject accession PRJNA283053; Yu et al. 2015 PubMed
Phloem pole pericycle cells of primary, seminal, crown and brace roots in response to local high nitrate stimulation: NCBI Bioproject accession PRJNA294044; Yu et al. 2016 PubMed
RNA-Seq data of maize mutants and their wild type:
rum1 mutant seedling primary roots: NCBI Bioproject accession PRJNA242907; Zhang et al. 2014 PubMed
rtcs mutant embryo during seminar root primordia formation: NCBI Bioproject accession PRJNA330920; Tai et al. 2017 PubMed
RNA-Seq data of barley mutants and their wild type:
- egt2 mutant and wild type Morex seedling root tissues: NCBI Bioproject accession PRJNA589222; Kirschner et al. 2021 PubMed
