Species-specific transcriptional reprogramming during adventitious root initiation

Adventitious roots or shoot-borne roots transdifferentiate from cells close to vascular tissues after cell re-programming, which is associated with increased transcriptional ac-tivity. Recently, Garg et al. pro-vided a genome-wide landscape of transcriptional signatures during the early stages of adventitious root initiation in rice and showed that conserved transcription factors acquire species-specific function.