How plants communicate using the underground information superhighway

Harsh Pal Bais; Sang Wook Park; Tiffany L. Weir; Ragan M. Callaway; Jorge M. Vivanco

doi:10.1016/j.tplants.2003.11.008

How plants communicate using the underground information superhighway

Harsh Pal Bais, Sang Wook Park, Tiffany L. Weir, Ragan M. Callaway, Jorge M. Vivanco

Division of Biological and Biomedical Sciences

Colorado State University

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Abstract

The rhizosphere is a densely populated area in which plant roots must compete with invading root systems of neighboring plants for space, water, and mineral nutrients, and with other soil-borne organisms, including bacteria and fungi. Root-root and root-microbe communications are continuous occurrences in this biologically active soil zone. How do roots manage to simultaneously communicate with neighboring plants, and with symbiotic and pathogenic organisms within this crowded rhizosphere? Increasing evidence suggests that root exudates might initiate and manipulate biological and physical interactions between roots and soil organisms, and thus play an active role in root-root and root-microbe communication.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	26-32
Number of pages	7
Journal	Trends in Plant Science
Volume	9
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tplants.2003.11.008
State	Published - Jan 2004

Funding

This work was supported by grants from the Colorado State University Agricultural Experiment Station (to J.M.V.), NSF-CAREER (grant no. MCB 0093014 to J.M.V.), the Invasive Weeds Initiative of the State of Colorado (to J.M.V.), USDA-WRIPM (grant no. 2003–05060 to J.M.V.), the Lindbergh Foundation (to J.M.V.), the Environmental Protection Agency (J.M.V.), the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (to R.M.C.), the National Science Foundation (to R.M.C.) and USDA-NRI (grant no. 2003–02433 to R.M.C. and J.M.V.).

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MCB 0093014
2003–02433
2003–05060

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