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How root growth is stimulated by nitrate: Researchers decipher signaling chain
- February 20, 2026 at 6:17 PM
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When 200 natural accessions of the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana grown in a nitrate-enriched medium were compared, one observation stood out: some accessions formed significantly longer lateral roots than others. Genetic analysis revealed a difference in a gene called MEKK14.
Originally published at Phys.org