Plant nutrient-uptake involves the growth and maintenance of viable root hairs that are flexible but resistant to soil hardening, water content variability and pathogen attack. A role for phosphoinositides establishing polarity and structural hardening of the cell wall is now defined, linking lipid signalling and membrane trafficking to cellular morphology.
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Malhó, R. Expand, colonize and consolidate. Nature Plants 4, 861–862 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41477-018-0297-4
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