Tissue Specific Nutrient Localization in the Arachis hypogaea Seedling Root
Document Type
Dissertation
Publication Date
Spring 2021
Department
Biological & Earth Sciences
Abstract
The development of roots was a major evolutionary event that accelerated the colonization of land by plants. As roots evolved to grow larger and penetrate the sub-surface, plants had greater access to water and nutrients and could increase in size. Therefore, the success of plants on land is partially due to roots and the transport mechanisms by which they can use robust vascular tissues to transport water and solutes and the study of roots and transport mechanisms are extremely important from the perspective of evolution, agriculture and environment. Also, since roots absorb water and minerals and also interact with rhizosphere microbes, significant recent research has been devoted to nutritional studies and root-microbe interactions. In the past 10 years, due to significant cost reduction and availability of high throughput imaging technology, analytical tools and genomic sequencing the area of “Plant Ionomics” has received significant attention and is now being explored to understand plant nutrition, adaptation to abiotic stress and ion homeostasis in plants.
Publication Title
Faculty Publications - Biological Sciences
Publisher
University of Louisiana at Lafayette
Recommended Citation
Acharya, A. (2021). Tissue Specific Nutrient Localization in the Arachis hypogaea Seedling Root (Doctoral dissertation, University of Louisiana at Lafayette).