GSA-1/ARG1 protects root gravitropism in Arabidopsis under ammonium stress

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Funding Acknowledgements

We thank Professors Malcolm Bennett (University of Nottingham), Ben Scheres (Utrecht University) and Tom Guilfoyle (University of Missouri) for providing the transgenic lines of Arabidopsis, and the Arabidopsis Biological Resource Center for the mutant seeds. We are grateful to Dr Jianru Zuo (Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences) for kind provision of Arabidopsis seeds mutagenized with T-DNA transformation, Feifei Sun (Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences) for assistance with amyloplast staining and Dr Guangjie Li (Institute of Soil Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences) for assistance with DR5::GUS staining. We also thank other members of our team and members of the laboratory of Professor Yanhua Su (Institute of Soil Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences) for their assistance. This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (31200189 and 30771285), the Chinese Academy Sciences Innovation Program (ISSASIP1103) and the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC, Discovery Grant 217277-2009).