On March 26, Prof. Li Jia’s research group from the School of Life Sciences at Lanzhou University(LZU) published a research paper in Nature Communications, entitled “Defects in the cell wall and its deposition caused by loss-of-function of three RLKs alter root hydrotropism in Arabidopsis thaliana”, in which the group discovered for the first time that a group of receptor-like kinases (including ARH1, FEI1, FEI2) negatively regulate root hydrotropism by modulating the cell wall, cutin, and wax s...