The quest for molecular markers indicating root growth in microbially treated tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) plants.

ABSTRACT: Roots are essential plant organs for anchorage in soil, uptake of water with nutrients, storage of photosynthates, and microbial interactions. More knowledge on microorganisms stimulating root growth is needed to control root development of cultured plants. A marker-assisted approach would facilitate vast screenings of microbes for eventual effects on root development. It was aimed to select for transcripts that report on root growth stimulation at the early tomato plant growth stage upon microbial treatments. Microbially treated tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) plants were cultivated in stone wool slabs and screened for genes that increased or decreased in differential expression upon increased root growth, by RNAseq. Expression of 21 selected genes was measured by quantitative polymerase ch

SUBMITTER: van Overbeek LS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12199702 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature