Set up from the beginning: The origin and early development of cassava storage roots.

Despite the importance of storage root (SR) organs for cassava and the other root crops yield, their developmental origin is poorly understood. Here we use multiple approaches to shed light on the initial stages of root development demonstrating that SR and fibrous roots (FR) follow different rhizogenic processes. Transcriptome analysis carried out on roots collected before, during and after root bulking highlighted early and specific activation of a number of functions essential for root swelling and identified root-specific genes able to effectively discriminate emerging FR and SR. Starch and sugars start to accumulate at a higher rate in SR before they swell but only after parenchyma tissue has been produced. Finally, using non-destructive computed tomography measurements, we show that SR (but not FR) contain, since their emergence from the stem, an inner channel structure in continuity with the stem secondary xylem, indicating that SR derive from a distinct rhizogenic process compared with FR. © 2022 The Authors. Plant, Cell & Environment published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd.

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Anna Vittoria Carluccio, Laure C David, Joelle Claußen, Marco Sulley, Seun Raheemat Adeoti, Toyin Abdulsalam, Stefan Gerth, Samuel C Zeeman, Andreas Gisel, Livia Stavolone. Set up from the beginning: The origin and early development of cassava storage roots. Plant, cell & environment. 2022 Jun;45(6):1779-1795

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