Very happy to see our work on the metabolic control of lateral root initiation published.
Michael and collaborators figured out that the formation of lateral roots requires a switch to glycolytic metabolism and a tight control of the translation of key auxin-induced transcription factors by the TOR kinase complex. This important work is accessible here.
Below the press release of the university about it:
- https://www.uni-heidelberg.de/en/newsroom/how-plants-use-sugar-to-produce-roots