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Root Development

Root development is the process by which plants initiate, grow, and elaborate their root systems, encompassing the formation of primary, lateral, and adventitious roots and the establishment of overall root system architecture. Roots anchor the plant, absorb water and mineral nutrients from the soil, store reserves,…

Curated from this journal's research 📚 5 peer-reviewed articles cited Cited 45× across the literature 🔖 ISSN 2832-5311 🗓 Reviewed July 2026

Overview

Root development is the process by which plants initiate, grow, and elaborate their root systems, encompassing the formation of primary, lateral, and adventitious roots and the establishment of overall root system architecture. Roots anchor the plant, absorb water and mineral nutrients from the soil, store reserves, and interact with the rhizosphere, making their development fundamental to plant growth, survival, and productivity. The process is governed by coordinated cell division, elongation, and differentiation in the root meristem and is regulated by an interplay of hormonal signals, including auxin, together with genetic programmes and post-transcriptional regulators such as microRNAs that shape patterning and rooting. Root system architecture, the spatial configuration of roots through the soil profile, is highly responsive to environmental cues and is central to how plants cope with biotic and abiotic stresses such as drought, nutrient limitation, and low fertility. Root traits and phenotypes are therefore studied to understand and improve tolerance of adverse conditions, including responses to reduced nitrogen availability and stress, and adventitious rooting is of particular importance in propagation, where antioxidant systems and regulatory molecules influence rooting capacity. By determining resource acquisition and stress resilience, root development is a key focus of Plant Cell Development and crop science, linking cellular and molecular mechanisms to agronomic performance and sustainable production.

Research published in this journal

5 peer-reviewed articles, ranked by relevance. Each links to its DOI.

2018

Emerging Roles of Plant Circular RNAs

Zhu Qian-HaoCorresponding author
CSIRO Agriculture and Food, GPO Box 1700, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia
Plant Cell Development Cited by 43 doi:10.14302/issn.2832-5311.jpcd-18-1955

How this research is being cited

The 5 articles above have been cited 45 times in the scholarly literature. Citation data via OpenAlex and Crossref, updated Jun 2026.

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Editorial oversight

Curated from peer-reviewed research published in Plant Cell Development (ISSN 2832-5311).

Journal editorial board
Qian-Hao Zhu · Australia Baohong Zhang · United States Kin-Ying To · Taiwan

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