Depuydt Stephen
Ghent 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.
Front Plant Sci. 2014 Nov 6;5:614. doi: 10.3389/fpls.2014.00614. eCollection 2014.
Root-root interaction research gained more and more attention over the past few years. Roots are pivotal for plant survival because they ensure uptake of water and nutrients. Therefore, detection of adjacent roots might lead to competitive advantages. Several lines of experimental evidence suggest that roots have ways to discriminate non-related roots, kin, and-importantly-that they can sense self/non-self roots to avoid intra-plant competition. In this mini-review, the existence of self/non-self recognition in plant roots will be discussed and the current knowledge on the mechanisms that could be involved will be summarized. Although the process of identity recognition is still not completely understood, interesting data are available and emerging new technologies will certainly aid to better understand this research field that can have an important biological, ecological, and agricultural impact.
在过去几年中，根际相互作用研究越来越受到关注。根对于植物的生存至关重要，因为它们确保水分和养分的吸收。因此，检测相邻的根可能会带来竞争优势。多条实验证据表明，根有办法区分非亲缘根、亲缘根，而且重要的是，它们能够感知自身/非自身的根，以避免植物内部的竞争。在这篇小型综述中，将讨论植物根中自身/非自身识别的存在，并总结目前关于可能涉及的机制的知识。尽管身份识别的过程仍未完全理解，但已有有趣的数据，新兴技术肯定有助于更好地理解这个可能具有重要生物学、生态学和农业影响的研究领域。
