Schneider Lab

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ERC Starting Grant · 2024

Discovering the developmental transition of cortical parenchyma cells into different cell fates

The root cortex is a primary ground tissue of the root organ and plays an important and adaptive role in plant growth and function. Root cortical parenchyma, thin-walled cells in the cortex, have great potential to change both in structure and function during plant development, even after cell differentiation. Root cortical cells can have many different post-differentiation fates that form different cortical tissues (e.g. aerenchyma, exodermis) in succession, or even simultaneously through the deposition or degradation of lignin and suberin and programmed cell death. The formation of these different cortical tissues have the potential to influence stress adaptation and plant performance,…

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