How plants use sugar to produce roots

ScienceDaily
May 22, 2023, 5:13 pm99 pts
Along with sugar reallocation, a basic molecular mechanism within plants controls the formation of new lateral roots. Botanists have demonstrated that it is based on the activity of a certain factor, the target of rapamycin (TOR) protein. A better understanding of the processes that regulate root branching at…

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