Aquaporins and root water uptake

GA Gambetta, T Knipfer, W Fricke… - Plant aquaporins: from …, 2017 - Springer
Water is one of the most critical resources limiting plant growth and crop productivity, and
root water uptake is an important aspect of plant physiology governing plant water use and …

Aquaporins: highly regulated channels controlling plant water relations

F Chaumont, SD Tyerman - Plant physiology, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Plant growth and development are dependent on tight regulation of water movement. Water
diffusion across cell membranes is facilitated by aquaporins that provide plants with the …

The role of aquaporins in root water uptake

H Javot, C Maurel - Annals of Botany, 2002 - academic.oup.com
The capacity of roots to take up water is determined in part by the resistance of living tissues
to radial water flow. Both the apoplastic and cell‐to‐cell paths mediate water transport in …

Coordinated post-translational responses of aquaporins to abiotic and nutritional stimuli in Arabidopsis roots

M Di Pietro, J Vialaret, GW Li, S Hem, K Prado… - Molecular & Cellular …, 2013 - ASBMB
In plants, aquaporins play a crucial role in regulating root water transport in response to
environmental and physiological cues. Controls achieved at the post-translational level are …

Aquaporins in plants

C Maurel, Y Boursiac, DT Luu, V Santoni… - Physiological …, 2015 - journals.physiology.org
Aquaporins are membrane channels that facilitate the transport of water and small neutral
molecules across biological membranes of most living organisms. In plants, aquaporins …

The roles of aquaporins in plant stress responses

Z Afzal, TC Howton, Y Sun, MS Mukhtar - Journal of developmental …, 2016 - mdpi.com
Aquaporins are membrane channel proteins ubiquitously present in all kingdoms of life.
Although aquaporins were originally discovered as water channels, their roles in the …

Early effects of salinity on water transport in Arabidopsis roots. Molecular and cellular features of aquaporin expression

Y Boursiac, S Chen, DT Luu, M Sorieul… - Plant …, 2005 - academic.oup.com
Aquaporins facilitate the uptake of soil water and mediate the regulation of root hydraulic
conductivity (L pr) in response to a large variety of environmental stresses. Here, we use …

Plant aquaporins: roles in plant physiology

G Li, V Santoni, C Maurel - Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA)-General …, 2014 - Elsevier
Background Aquaporins are membrane channels that facilitate the transport of water and
small neutral molecules across biological membranes of most living organisms. Scope of …

Plant aquaporins alleviate drought tolerance in plants by modulating cellular biochemistry, root‐architecture, and photosynthesis

J Patel, A Mishra - Physiologia Plantarum, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Water is a vital resource for plants to grow, thrive, and complete their life cycle. In recent
years, drastic changes in the climate, especially drought frequency and severity, have …

The response of Arabidopsis root water transport to a challenging environment implicates reactive oxygen species-and phosphorylation-dependent internalization of …

Y Boursiac, S Prak, J Boudet, O Postaire… - Plant signaling & …, 2008 - Taylor & Francis
Aquaporins, which facilitate the diffusion of water across biological membranes, are key
molecules for the regulation of water transport at the cell and organ levels. We recently …