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Stephen Depuydt1

  • 1Ghent University Global Campus , Incheon, South Korea ; Department of Plant Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, Ghent University , Ghent, Belgium ; Department of Plant Systems Biology, Flanders Institute for Biotechnology , Ghent, Belgium.

Frontiers in Plant Science
|November 22, 2014
PubMed
Summary

Plant roots can distinguish between self, kin, and non-kin, a crucial ability for survival and resource competition. This self/non-self recognition mechanism in roots is vital for plant biology and agriculture.

Keywords:
identity recognitionroot competitionroot growthroot–root interactionself/non-self recognition

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