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Kelly-Bellow R, Lee K, Kennaway R, Barclay JE, Whibley A, Bushell C, Spooner J, Yu M, Brett P, Kular B, Cheng S, Chu J, Xu T, Lane B, Fitzsimons J, Xue Y, Smith RS, Whitewoods CD, Coen E. Brassinosteroid coordinates cell layer interactions in plants via cell wall and tissue mechanics. Science 2023; 380:1275-1281. [PMID: 37347863 DOI: 10.1126/science.adf0752] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/05/2022] [Accepted: 05/18/2023] [Indexed: 06/24/2023]
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Growth coordination between cell layers is essential for development of most multicellular organisms. Coordination may be mediated by molecular signaling and/or mechanical connectivity between cells, but how genes modify mechanical interactions between layers is unknown. Here we show that genes driving brassinosteroid synthesis promote growth of internal tissue, at least in part, by reducing mechanical epidermal constraint. We identified a brassinosteroid-deficient dwarf mutant in the aquatic plant Utricularia gibba with twisted internal tissue, likely caused by mechanical constraint from a slow-growing epidermis. We tested this hypothesis by showing that a brassinosteroid mutant in Arabidopsis enhances epidermal crack formation, indicative of increased tissue stress. We propose that by remodeling cell walls, brassinosteroids reduce epidermal constraint, showing how genes can control growth coordination between layers by means of mechanics.
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- Robert Kelly-Bellow
- Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, John Innes Centre, Norwich NR4 7UH, UK
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- Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, John Innes Centre, Norwich NR4 7UH, UK
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- Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, John Innes Centre, Norwich NR4 7UH, UK
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- Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, John Innes Centre, Norwich NR4 7UH, UK
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- Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, John Innes Centre, Norwich NR4 7UH, UK
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- Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, John Innes Centre, Norwich NR4 7UH, UK
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- Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, John Innes Centre, Norwich NR4 7UH, UK
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- Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, John Innes Centre, Norwich NR4 7UH, UK
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- Department of Biochemistry and Metabolism, John Innes Centre, Norwich NR4 7UH, UK
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- Department of Biochemistry and Metabolism, John Innes Centre, Norwich NR4 7UH, UK
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- National Centre for Plant Gene Research (Beijing), Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
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- National Centre for Plant Gene Research (Beijing), Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
- College of Advanced Agricultural Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100039, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Plant Cell and Chromosome Engineering, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
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- Department of Computational and Systems Biology, John Innes Centre, Norwich NR4 7UH, UK
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- Sainsbury Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 1LR, UK
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- State Key Laboratory of Plant Cell and Chromosome Engineering, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
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- Department of Computational and Systems Biology, John Innes Centre, Norwich NR4 7UH, UK
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- Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, John Innes Centre, Norwich NR4 7UH, UK
- Sainsbury Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 1LR, UK
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- Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, John Innes Centre, Norwich NR4 7UH, UK
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Understanding the mechanism by which patterned gene activity leads to mechanical deformation of cells and tissues to create complex forms is a major challenge for developmental biology. Plants offer advantages for addressing this problem because their cells do not migrate or rearrange during morphogenesis, which simplifies analysis. We synthesize results from experimental analysis and computational modeling to show how mechanical interactions between cellulose fibers translate through wall, cell, and tissue levels to generate complex plant tissue shapes. Genes can modify mechanical properties and stresses at each level, though the values and pattern of stresses differ from one level to the next. The dynamic cellulose network provides elastic resistance to deformation while allowing growth through fiber sliding, which enables morphogenesis while maintaining mechanical strength.
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- Enrico Coen
- Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, John Innes Centre, Norwich Research Park, Colney Lane, Norwich NR4 7UH, UK
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- Department of Biology, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16870, USA
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Marconi M, Wabnik K. Shaping the Organ: A Biologist Guide to Quantitative Models of Plant Morphogenesis. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2021; 12:746183. [PMID: 34675952 PMCID: PMC8523991 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2021.746183] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/23/2021] [Accepted: 09/09/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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Organ morphogenesis is the process of shape acquisition initiated with a small reservoir of undifferentiated cells. In plants, morphogenesis is a complex endeavor that comprises a large number of interacting elements, including mechanical stimuli, biochemical signaling, and genetic prerequisites. Because of the large body of data being produced by modern laboratories, solving this complexity requires the application of computational techniques and analyses. In the last two decades, computational models combined with wet-lab experiments have advanced our understanding of plant organ morphogenesis. Here, we provide a comprehensive review of the most important achievements in the field of computational plant morphodynamics. We present a brief history from the earliest attempts to describe plant forms using algorithmic pattern generation to the evolution of quantitative cell-based models fueled by increasing computational power. We then provide an overview of the most common types of "digital plant" paradigms, and demonstrate how models benefit from diverse techniques used to describe cell growth mechanics. Finally, we highlight the development of computational frameworks designed to resolve organ shape complexity through integration of mechanical, biochemical, and genetic cues into a quantitative standardized and user-friendly environment.
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- Centro de Biotecnología y Genómica de Plantas, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM) - Instituto Nacional de Investigación y Tecnología Agraria y Alimentaria (INIA), Pozuelo de Alarcón (Madrid), Spain
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Moulia B, Douady S, Hamant O. Fluctuations shape plants through proprioception. Science 2021; 372:372/6540/eabc6868. [PMID: 33888615 DOI: 10.1126/science.abc6868] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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Plants constantly experience fluctuating internal and external mechanical cues, ranging from nanoscale deformation of wall components, cell growth variability, nutating stems, and fluttering leaves to stem flexion under tree weight and wind drag. Developing plants use such fluctuations to monitor and channel their own shape and growth through a form of proprioception. Fluctuations in mechanical cues may also be actively enhanced, producing oscillating behaviors in tissues. For example, proprioception through leaf nastic movements may promote organ flattening. We propose that fluctuation-enhanced proprioception allows plant organs to sense their own shapes and behave like active materials with adaptable outputs to face variable environments, whether internal or external. Because certain shapes are more amenable to fluctuations, proprioception may also help plant shapes to reach self-organized criticality to support such adaptability.
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- Bruno Moulia
- Université Clermont Auvergne, INRAE, PIAF, 63000 Clermont-Ferrand, France.
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- Laboratoire Matières et Systèmes Complexes (MSC), Université de Paris, CNRS, 75205 Paris Cedex 13, France.
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- Laboratoire de Reproduction et Développement des Plantes, Université de Lyon, ENS de Lyon, UCB Lyon 1, CNRS, INRAE, 69007 Lyon, France.
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Zhao F, Du F, Oliveri H, Zhou L, Ali O, Chen W, Feng S, Wang Q, Lü S, Long M, Schneider R, Sampathkumar A, Godin C, Traas J, Jiao Y. Microtubule-Mediated Wall Anisotropy Contributes to Leaf Blade Flattening. Curr Biol 2020; 30:3972-3985.e6. [PMID: 32916107 PMCID: PMC7575199 DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2020.07.076] [Citation(s) in RCA: 65] [Impact Index Per Article: 16.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/31/2020] [Revised: 07/10/2020] [Accepted: 07/27/2020] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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Plant organs can adopt a wide range of shapes, resulting from highly directional cell growth and divisions. We focus here on leaves and leaf-like organs in Arabidopsis and tomato, characterized by the formation of thin, flat laminae. Combining experimental approaches with 3D mechanical modeling, we provide evidence that leaf shape depends on cortical microtubule mediated cellulose deposition along the main predicted stress orientations, in particular, along the adaxial-abaxial axis in internal cell walls. This behavior can be explained by a mechanical feedback and has the potential to sustain and even amplify a preexisting degree of flatness, which in turn depends on genes involved in the control of organ polarity and leaf margin formation. Microtubules and cellulose microfibrils align along the ad-abaxial direction Microtubule-mediated cell growth anisotropy contributes to leaf flattening Mechanical feedback accounts for microtubule alignments in the ad-abaxial direction Final organ shape depends on the degree of initial asymmetry of primordia
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- Feng Zhao
- Laboratoire Reproduction et Développement des Plantes, Univ Lyon, ENS de Lyon, UCB Lyon 1, CNRS, INRAE, Inria, 69342 Lyon, France
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- State Key Laboratory of Plant Genomics and National Center for Plant Gene Research (Beijing), Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, The Innovative Academy of Seed Design, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
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- Laboratoire Reproduction et Développement des Plantes, Univ Lyon, ENS de Lyon, UCB Lyon 1, CNRS, INRAE, Inria, 69342 Lyon, France
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- Smart Materials and Advanced Structure Laboratory, School of Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics, Ningbo University, Ningbo, Zhejiang 315211, China
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- Laboratoire Reproduction et Développement des Plantes, Univ Lyon, ENS de Lyon, UCB Lyon 1, CNRS, INRAE, Inria, 69342 Lyon, France
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- Laboratoire Reproduction et Développement des Plantes, Univ Lyon, ENS de Lyon, UCB Lyon 1, CNRS, INRAE, Inria, 69342 Lyon, France
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- Smart Materials and Advanced Structure Laboratory, School of Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics, Ningbo University, Ningbo, Zhejiang 315211, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Plant Genomics and National Center for Plant Gene Research (Beijing), Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, The Innovative Academy of Seed Design, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China; Key Laboratory of Microgravity (National Microgravity Laboratory), Center of Biomechanics and Bioengineering, and Beijing Key Laboratory of Engineered Construction and Mechanobiology, Institute of Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
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- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China; Key Laboratory of Microgravity (National Microgravity Laboratory), Center of Biomechanics and Bioengineering, and Beijing Key Laboratory of Engineered Construction and Mechanobiology, Institute of Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
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- Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, Am Mühlenberg 1, 14476 Potsdam-Golm, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, Am Mühlenberg 1, 14476 Potsdam-Golm, Germany
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- Laboratoire Reproduction et Développement des Plantes, Univ Lyon, ENS de Lyon, UCB Lyon 1, CNRS, INRAE, Inria, 69342 Lyon, France
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- Laboratoire Reproduction et Développement des Plantes, Univ Lyon, ENS de Lyon, UCB Lyon 1, CNRS, INRAE, Inria, 69342 Lyon, France.
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- State Key Laboratory of Plant Genomics and National Center for Plant Gene Research (Beijing), Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, The Innovative Academy of Seed Design, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China.
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Studying cell wall mechanics using an automated confocal micro-extensometer. Methods Cell Biol 2020. [PMID: 32896314 DOI: 10.1016/bs.mcb.2020.04.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register]
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Recently there has been a lot of interest in quantifying mechanical properties and responses to mechanical stress. This type of data can provide insight into how growth is regulated, the processes that enable it to occur and how stresses that build up during development feedback onto development itself. However, quantifying mechanical properties of plant cell walls is difficult as the material is heterogeneous, anisotropic and shows complex time-dependent properties as well as being subject to the complex geometries of plant tissues. It is therefore necessary to have a range of methods to enable the quantification of these properties at different resolutions and time-scales. Here we provide a guide to quantifying mechanical properties in Arabidopsis thaliana hypocotyls using a tensile testing device an automated confocal micro-extensometer (ACME). In contrast to indentation methods, tensile testing provides information on the tissue as a whole and in the plane of the sample. We also detail how to adapt the method to use it for quantifying responses to mechanical stress.
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ROBINSON SARAH, DURAND‐SMET PAULINE. Combining tensile testing and microscopy to address a diverse range of questions. J Microsc 2020; 278:145-153. [DOI: 10.1111/jmi.12863] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/30/2019] [Revised: 12/20/2019] [Accepted: 01/08/2020] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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- SARAH ROBINSON
- The Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University Bateman Street Cambridge UK
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Landrein B, Ingram G. Connected through the force: mechanical signals in plant development. JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY 2019; 70:3507-3519. [PMID: 30821332 DOI: 10.1093/jxb/erz103] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/13/2018] [Accepted: 02/12/2019] [Indexed: 05/12/2023]
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As multicellular organisms, plants acquire characteristic shapes through a complex set of biological processes known as morphogenesis. Biochemical signalling underlies much of development, as it allows cells to acquire specific identities based on their position within tissues and organs. However, as growing physical structures, plants, and their constituent cells, also experience internal and external physical forces that can be perceived and can influence key processes such as growth, polarity, and gene expression. This process, which adds another layer of control to growth and development, has important implications for plant morphogenesis. This review provides an overview of recent research into the role of mechanical signals in plant development and aims to show how mechanical signalling can be used, in concert with biochemical signals, as a cue allowing cells and tissues to coordinate their behaviour and to add robustness to developmental processes.
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- Benoit Landrein
- Laboratoire Reproduction et Développement des Plantes, Université de Lyon, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, UCB Lyon 1, CNRS, INRA, Lyon Cedex, France
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- Laboratoire Reproduction et Développement des Plantes, Université de Lyon, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, UCB Lyon 1, CNRS, INRA, Lyon Cedex, France
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Watahiki M, Trewavas A. Systems, variation, individuality and plant hormones. PROGRESS IN BIOPHYSICS AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2018; 146:3-22. [PMID: 30312622 DOI: 10.1016/j.pbiomolbio.2018.10.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/30/2018] [Accepted: 10/06/2018] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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Inter-individual variation in plants and particularly in hormone content, figures strongly in evolution and behaviour. Homo sapiens and Arabidopsis exhibit similar and substantial phenotypic and molecular variation. Whereas there is a very substantial degree of hormone variation in mankind, reports of inter-individual variation in plant hormone content are virtually absent but are likely to be as large if not larger than that in mankind. Reasons for this absence are discussed. Using an example of inter-individual variation in ethylene content in ripening, the article shows how biological time is compressed by hormones. It further resolves an old issue of very wide hormone dose response that result directly from negative regulation in hormone (and light) transduction. Negative regulation is used because of inter-individual variability in hormone synthesis, receptors and ancillary proteins, a consequence of substantial genomic and environmental variation. Somatic mosaics have been reported for several plant tissues and these too contribute to tissue variation and wide variation in hormone response. The article concludes by examining what variation exists in gravitropic responses. There are multiple sensing systems of gravity vectors and multiple routes towards curvature. These are an aspect of the need for reliability in both inter-individual variation and unpredictable environments. Plant hormone inter-individuality is a new area for research and is likely to change appreciation of the mechanisms that underpin individual behaviour.
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- Masaaki Watahiki
- Faculty of Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, 060-0810, Japan.
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- Institute of Plant Molecular Science, University of Edinburgh, Kings Buildings, Mayfield Road, Edinburgh, EH9 3 JH, Scotland, United Kingdom.
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Woolfenden HC, Baillie AL, Gray JE, Hobbs JK, Morris RJ, Fleming AJ. Models and Mechanisms of Stomatal Mechanics. TRENDS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2018; 23:822-832. [PMID: 30149855 DOI: 10.1016/j.tplants.2018.06.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/07/2018] [Revised: 06/04/2018] [Accepted: 06/07/2018] [Indexed: 05/02/2023]
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The mechanism of stomatal function (control of gas flux through the plant surface via regulation of pore size) is fundamentally mechanical. The material properties of the pore-forming guard cells must play a key role in setting the dynamics and degree of stomatal opening/closure, but our understanding of the molecular players involved and resultant mechanical performance has remained limited. The application of indentation techniques and computational modelling, combined with molecular tools for imaging and manipulating guard cells and their constituent cell walls, has opened the way to a systems approach to analysing this problem. The outcomes of these investigations have led to a reassessment of accepted paradigms and are providing a new understanding of the mechanism of stomatal mechanics.
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- Hugh C Woolfenden
- Computational and Systems Biology, John Innes Centre, Norwich, UK; These authors contributed equally to the article
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- Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK; These authors contributed equally to the article
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- Department of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK
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- Computational and Systems Biology, John Innes Centre, Norwich, UK
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- Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK; http://fleminglab.group.shef.ac.uk/.
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Lipowczan M, Borowska-Wykręt D, Natonik-Białoń S, Kwiatkowska D. Growing cell walls show a gradient of elastic strain across their layers. JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY 2018; 69:4349-4362. [PMID: 29945239 PMCID: PMC6093493 DOI: 10.1093/jxb/ery237] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/19/2017] [Accepted: 06/21/2018] [Indexed: 05/16/2023]
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The relatively thick primary walls of epidermal and collenchyma cells often form waviness on the surface that faces the protoplast when they are released from the tensile in-plane stress that operates in situ. This waviness is a manifestation of buckling that results from the heterogeneity of the elastic strain across the wall. In this study, this heterogeneity was confirmed by the spontaneous bending of isolated wall fragments that were initially flat. We combined the empirical data on the formation of waviness in growing cell walls with computations of the buckled wall shapes. We chose cylindrical-shaped organs with a high degree of longitudinal tissue stress because in such organs the surface deformation that accompanies the removal of the stress is strongly anisotropic and leads to the formation of waviness in which wrinkles on the inner wall surface are always transverse to the organ axis. The computations showed that the strain heterogeneity results from individual or overlaid gradients of pre-stress and stiffness across the wall. The computed wall shapes depend on the assumed wall thickness and mechanical gradients. Thus, a quantitative analysis of the wall waviness that forms after stress removal can be used to assess the mechanical heterogeneity of the cell wall.
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- Marcin Lipowczan
- Department of Biophysics and Morphogenesis of Plants, University of Silesia in Katowice, Katowice, Poland
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- Department of Biophysics and Morphogenesis of Plants, University of Silesia in Katowice, Katowice, Poland
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- Department of Biophysics and Morphogenesis of Plants, University of Silesia in Katowice, Katowice, Poland
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- Department of Biophysics and Morphogenesis of Plants, University of Silesia in Katowice, Katowice, Poland
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Robinson S, Kuhlemeier C. Global Compression Reorients Cortical Microtubules in Arabidopsis Hypocotyl Epidermis and Promotes Growth. Curr Biol 2018; 28:1794-1802.e2. [DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2018.04.028] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/09/2017] [Revised: 01/22/2018] [Accepted: 04/09/2018] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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Julien JD, Boudaoud A. Elongation and shape changes in organisms with cell walls: A dialogue between experiments and models. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2018; 1:34-42. [PMID: 32743126 PMCID: PMC7388974 DOI: 10.1016/j.tcsw.2018.04.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/07/2018] [Revised: 04/06/2018] [Accepted: 04/08/2018] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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The generation of anisotropic shapes occurs during morphogenesis of almost all organisms. With the recent renewal of the interest in mechanical aspects of morphogenesis, it has become clear that mechanics contributes to anisotropic forms in a subtle interaction with various molecular actors. Here, we consider plants, fungi, oomycetes, and bacteria, and we review the mechanisms by which elongated shapes are generated and maintained. We focus on theoretical models of the interplay between growth and mechanics, in relation with experimental data, and discuss how models may help us improve our understanding of the underlying biological mechanisms.
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- Jean-Daniel Julien
- Laboratoire Reproduction et Développement des Plantes, Université de Lyon, ENS de Lyon, UCB Lyon 1, CNRS, INRA, 46 allée d'Italie, 69364 Lyon Cedex 07, France.,Laboratoire de Physique, Univ. Lyon, ENS de Lyon, UCB Lyon 1, CNRS, 46 allée d'Italie, 69364 Lyon Cedex 07, France
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- Laboratoire Reproduction et Développement des Plantes, Université de Lyon, ENS de Lyon, UCB Lyon 1, CNRS, INRA, 46 allée d'Italie, 69364 Lyon Cedex 07, France
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Arsuffi G, Braybrook SA. Acid growth: an ongoing trip. JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY 2018; 69:137-146. [PMID: 29211894 DOI: 10.1093/jxb/erx390] [Citation(s) in RCA: 60] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/21/2017] [Accepted: 10/13/2017] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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Since its first formulation almost 50 years ago, acid growth has had a chequered past complicated by utilization of diverse species and organs for testing alongside necessary but coarse methodology. Within the past 25 years, we have gained new insights into the molecular mechanisms behind the transduction of the signal auxin into the reality of an apoplastic pH shift as well as the effect on cell wall mechanics and the biochemical players within the wall contributing to the resultant growth. In this review, we begin by discussing the historical work and its complications, move on to the modern work and its addition to acid growth, which we finally summarize in an updated model which includes new postulations and questions.
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There is increasing evidence that all cells sense mechanical forces in order to perform their functions. In animals, mechanotransduction has been studied during the establishment of cell polarity, fate, and division in single cells, and increasingly is studied in the context of a multicellular tissue. What about plant systems? Our goal in this review is to summarize what is known about the perception of mechanical cues in plants, and to provide a brief comparison with animals.
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- Olivier Hamant
- Laboratoire Reproduction et Développement des Plantes, University Lyon, ENS de Lyon, UCB Lyon 1, CNRS, INRA, F-69342, Lyon, France.
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- Department of Biology, Washington University in Saint Louis, Mailbox 1137, Saint Louis, MO, 63130, USA.
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Hamant O, Haswell ES. Life behind the wall: sensing mechanical cues in plants. BMC Biol 2017. [PMID: 28697754 DOI: 10.1186/s12915-017-0403-405] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/02/2023] Open
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There is increasing evidence that all cells sense mechanical forces in order to perform their functions. In animals, mechanotransduction has been studied during the establishment of cell polarity, fate, and division in single cells, and increasingly is studied in the context of a multicellular tissue. What about plant systems? Our goal in this review is to summarize what is known about the perception of mechanical cues in plants, and to provide a brief comparison with animals.
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- Olivier Hamant
- Laboratoire Reproduction et Développement des Plantes, University Lyon, ENS de Lyon, UCB Lyon 1, CNRS, INRA, F-69342, Lyon, France.
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- Department of Biology, Washington University in Saint Louis, Mailbox 1137, Saint Louis, MO, 63130, USA.
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Zhang H, Zhao FG, Tang RJ, Yu Y, Song J, Wang Y, Li L, Luan S. Two tonoplast MATE proteins function as turgor-regulating chloride channels in Arabidopsis. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2017; 114:E2036-E2045. [PMID: 28202726 PMCID: PMC5347570 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1616203114] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/16/2022] Open
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The central vacuole in a plant cell occupies the majority of the cellular volume and plays a key role in turgor regulation. The vacuolar membrane (tonoplast) contains a large number of transporters that mediate fluxes of solutes and water, thereby adjusting cell turgor in response to developmental and environmental signals. We report that two tonoplast Detoxification efflux carrier (DTX)/Multidrug and Toxic Compound Extrusion (MATE) transporters, DTX33 and DTX35, function as chloride channels essential for turgor regulation in Arabidopsis Ectopic expression of each transporter in Nicotiana benthamiana mesophyll cells elicited a large voltage-dependent inward chloride current across the tonoplast, showing that DTX33 and DTX35 each constitute a functional channel. Both channels are highly expressed in Arabidopsis tissues, including root hairs and guard cells that experience rapid turgor changes during root-hair elongation and stomatal movements. Disruption of these two genes, either in single or double mutants, resulted in shorter root hairs and smaller stomatal aperture, with double mutants showing more severe defects, suggesting that these two channels function additively to facilitate anion influx into the vacuole during cell expansion. In addition, dtx35 single mutant showed lower fertility as a result of a defect in pollen-tube growth. Indeed, patch-clamp recording of isolated vacuoles indicated that the inward chloride channel activity across the tonoplast was impaired in the double mutant. Because MATE proteins are widely known transporters of organic compounds, finding MATE members as chloride channels expands the functional definition of this large family of transporters.
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- Haiwen Zhang
- Institute of Plant Molecular Biology, State Key Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Technology, School of Life Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, China
- College of Life Sciences, Capital Normal University, Beijing 100048, China
- Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720
- Beijing Key Laboratory of Agricultural Genetic Resources and Biotechnology, Beijing Agro-Biotechnology Research Center, Beijing Academy of Agriculture and Forestry Sciences, Beijing 100097, China
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- Institute of Plant Molecular Biology, State Key Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Technology, School of Life Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, China;
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- Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720
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- College of Life Sciences, Capital Normal University, Beijing 100048, China
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- College of Life Sciences, Capital Normal University, Beijing 100048, China
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- Institute of Plant Molecular Biology, State Key Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Technology, School of Life Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, China
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- College of Life Sciences, Capital Normal University, Beijing 100048, China;
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- Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720;
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Kim JH, Tsukaya H. Regulation of plant growth and development by the GROWTH-REGULATING FACTOR and GRF-INTERACTING FACTOR duo. JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY 2015; 66:6093-107. [PMID: 26160584 DOI: 10.1093/jxb/erv349] [Citation(s) in RCA: 106] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/20/2023]
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Transcription factors are key regulators of gene expression and play pivotal roles in all aspects of living organisms. Therefore, identification and functional characterization of transcription factors is a prerequisite step toward understanding life. This article reviews molecular and biological functions of the two transcription regulator families, GROWTH-REGULATING FACTOR (GRF) and GRF-INTERACTING FACTOR (GIF), which have only recently been recognized. A myriad of experimental evidence clearly illustrates that GRF and GIF are bona fide partner proteins and form a plant-specific transcriptional complex. One of the most conspicuous outcomes from this research field is that the GRF-GIF duo endows the primordial cells of vegetative and reproductive organs with a meristematic specification state, guaranteeing the supply of cells for organogenesis and successful reproduction. It has recently been shown that GIF1 proteins, also known as ANGUSTIFOLIA3, recruit chromatin remodelling complexes to target genes, and that AtGRF expression is directly activated by the floral identity factors, APETALA1 and SEPALLATA3, providing an important insight into understanding of the action of GRF-GIF. Moreover, GRF genes are extensively subjected to post-transcriptional control by microRNA396, revealing the presence of a complex regulatory circuit in regulation of plant growth and development by the GRF-GIF duo.
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- Jeong Hoe Kim
- Department of Biology, Kyungpook National University, 1370 Sankyuk-dong, Buk-gu, Daegu 702-701, Korea
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan Okazaki Institute for Integrative Bioscience, National Institutes of Natural Sciences, 5-1 Higashiyama, Myodaiji-cho, Okazaki, Aichi 444-8787, Japan
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Levy Nogueira M, da Veiga Moreira J, Baronzio GF, Dubois B, Steyaert JM, Schwartz L. Mechanical Stress as the Common Denominator between Chronic Inflammation, Cancer, and Alzheimer's Disease. Front Oncol 2015; 5:197. [PMID: 26442209 PMCID: PMC4585184 DOI: 10.3389/fonc.2015.00197] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/20/2015] [Accepted: 08/24/2015] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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The pathogenesis of common diseases, such as Alzheimer's disease (AD) and cancer, are currently poorly understood. Inflammation is a common risk factor for cancer and AD. Recent data, provided by our group and from others, demonstrate that increased pressure and inflammation are synonymous. There is a continuous increase in pressure from inflammation to fibrosis and then cancer. This is in line with the numerous papers reporting high interstitial pressure in cancer. But most authors focus on the role of pressure in the lack of delivery of chemotherapy in the center of the tumor. Pressure may also be a key factor in carcinogenesis. Increased pressure is responsible for oncogene activation and cytokine secretion. Accumulation of mechanical stress plays a key role in the development of diseases of old age, such as cardiomyopathy, atherosclerosis, and osteoarthritis. Growing evidence suggest also a possible link between mechanical stress in the pathogenesis of AD. The aim of this review is to describe environmental and endogenous mechanical factors possibly playing a pivotal role in the mechanism of chronic inflammation, AD, and cancer.
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- Marcel Levy Nogueira
- Département de Neurologie, Institut de la Mémoire et de la Maladie d'Alzheimer (IM2A), Hôpital de la Pitié-Salpêtrière, AP-HP , Paris , France ; Institut des Neurosciences Translationnelles de Paris (IHU-A-ICM), Institut du Cerveau et de la Moelle Epinière (ICM) , Paris , France ; UMR 7161, Laboratoire d'informatique (LIX), Ecole Polytechnique, Université Paris-Saclay , Palaiseau , France
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- UMR 7161, Laboratoire d'informatique (LIX), Ecole Polytechnique, Université Paris-Saclay , Palaiseau , France
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- Département de Neurologie, Institut de la Mémoire et de la Maladie d'Alzheimer (IM2A), Hôpital de la Pitié-Salpêtrière, AP-HP , Paris , France ; Institut des Neurosciences Translationnelles de Paris (IHU-A-ICM), Institut du Cerveau et de la Moelle Epinière (ICM) , Paris , France ; UMR-S975, CNRS, INSERM, Institut du Cerveau et de la Moelle Epinière (ICM) , Paris , France
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- UMR 7161, Laboratoire d'informatique (LIX), Ecole Polytechnique, Université Paris-Saclay , Palaiseau , France
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- UMR 7161, Laboratoire d'informatique (LIX), Ecole Polytechnique, Université Paris-Saclay , Palaiseau , France
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Žádníková P, Smet D, Zhu Q, Straeten DVD, Benková E. Strategies of seedlings to overcome their sessile nature: auxin in mobility control. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2015; 6:218. [PMID: 25926839 PMCID: PMC4396199 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2015.00218] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/09/2014] [Accepted: 03/19/2015] [Indexed: 05/21/2023]
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Plants are sessile organisms that are permanently restricted to their site of germination. To compensate for their lack of mobility, plants evolved unique mechanisms enabling them to rapidly react to ever changing environmental conditions and flexibly adapt their postembryonic developmental program. A prominent demonstration of this developmental plasticity is their ability to bend organs in order to reach the position most optimal for growth and utilization of light, nutrients, and other resources. Shortly after germination, dicotyledonous seedlings form a bended structure, the so-called apical hook, to protect the delicate shoot meristem and cotyledons from damage when penetrating through the soil. Upon perception of a light stimulus, the apical hook rapidly opens and the photomorphogenic developmental program is activated. After germination, plant organs are able to align their growth with the light source and adopt the most favorable orientation through bending, in a process named phototropism. On the other hand, when roots and shoots are diverted from their upright orientation, they immediately detect a change in the gravity vector and bend to maintain a vertical growth direction. Noteworthy, despite the diversity of external stimuli perceived by different plant organs, all plant tropic movements share a common mechanistic basis: differential cell growth. In our review, we will discuss the molecular principles underlying various tropic responses with the focus on mechanisms mediating the perception of external signals, transduction cascades and downstream responses that regulate differential cell growth and consequently, organ bending. In particular, we highlight common and specific features of regulatory pathways in control of the bending of organs and a role for the plant hormone auxin as a key regulatory component.
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- Petra Žádníková
- Department of Plant Systems Biology, Flanders Institute for Biotechnology, GhentBelgium
- Department of Plant Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, Ghent University, GhentBelgium
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- Department of Physiology, Laboratory of Functional Plant Biology, Ghent University, GhentBelgium
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- Institute of Science and Technology Austria, KlosterneuburgAustria
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- Institute of Science and Technology Austria, KlosterneuburgAustria
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Stahlberg R, Cleland RE, Volkenburgh EV. Mesophyll-Driven Blade Expansion in <i>Pisum sativum</i> var. <i>argenteum</i> Leaves. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2015. [DOI: 10.4236/ajps.2015.65081] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Beauzamy L, Louveaux M, Hamant O, Boudaoud A. Mechanically, the Shoot Apical Meristem of Arabidopsis Behaves like a Shell Inflated by a Pressure of About 1 MPa. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2015; 6:1038. [PMID: 26635855 PMCID: PMC4659900 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2015.01038] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/18/2015] [Accepted: 11/09/2015] [Indexed: 05/15/2023]
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In plants, the shoot apical meristem contains the stem cells and is responsible for the generation of all aerial organs. Mechanistically, organogenesis is associated with an auxin-dependent local softening of the epidermis. This has been proposed to be sufficient to trigger outgrowth, because the epidermis is thought to be under tension and stiffer than internal tissues in all the aerial part of the plant. However, this has not been directly demonstrated in the shoot apical meristem. Here we tested this hypothesis in Arabidopsis using indentation methods and modeling. We considered two possible scenarios: either the epidermis does not have unique properties and the meristem behaves as a homogeneous linearly-elastic tissue, or the epidermis is under tension and the meristem exhibits the response of a shell under pressure. Large indentation depths measurements with a large tip (~size of the meristem) were consistent with a shell-like behavior. This also allowed us to deduce a value of turgor pressure, estimated at 0.82±0.16 MPa. Indentation with atomic force microscopy provided local measurements of pressure in the epidermis, further confirming the range of values obtained from large deformations. Altogether, our data demonstrate that the Arabidopsis shoot apical meristem behaves like a shell under a MPa range pressure and support a key role for the epidermis in shaping the shoot apex.
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- Léna Beauzamy
- Laboratoire Reproduction et Développement des Plantes, INRA, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, ENS de Lyon, UCB Lyon 1, Université de LyonLyon, France
- Laboratoire Joliot-Curie, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, ENS de Lyon, Université de LyonLyon, France
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- Laboratoire Reproduction et Développement des Plantes, INRA, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, ENS de Lyon, UCB Lyon 1, Université de LyonLyon, France
- Laboratoire Joliot-Curie, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, ENS de Lyon, Université de LyonLyon, France
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- Laboratoire Reproduction et Développement des Plantes, INRA, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, ENS de Lyon, UCB Lyon 1, Université de LyonLyon, France
- Laboratoire Joliot-Curie, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, ENS de Lyon, Université de LyonLyon, France
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- Laboratoire Reproduction et Développement des Plantes, INRA, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, ENS de Lyon, UCB Lyon 1, Université de LyonLyon, France
- Laboratoire Joliot-Curie, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, ENS de Lyon, Université de LyonLyon, France
- Institut Universitaire de FranceParis, France
- *Correspondence: Arezki Boudaoud
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Beauzamy L, Nakayama N, Boudaoud A. Flowers under pressure: ins and outs of turgor regulation in development. ANNALS OF BOTANY 2014; 114:1517-33. [PMID: 25288632 PMCID: PMC4204789 DOI: 10.1093/aob/mcu187] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/29/2014] [Accepted: 08/01/2014] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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BACKGROUND Turgor pressure is an essential feature of plants; however, whereas its physiological importance is unequivocally recognized, its relevance to development is often reduced to a role in cell elongation. SCOPE This review surveys the roles of turgor in development, the molecular mechanisms of turgor regulation and the methods used to measure turgor and related quantities, while also covering the basic concepts associated with water potential and water flow in plants. Three key processes in flower development are then considered more specifically: flower opening, anther dehiscence and pollen tube growth. CONCLUSIONS Many molecular determinants of turgor and its regulation have been characterized, while a number of methods are now available to quantify water potential, turgor and hydraulic conductivity. Data on flower opening, anther dehiscence and lateral root emergence suggest that turgor needs to be finely tuned during development, both spatially and temporally. It is anticipated that a combination of biological experiments and physical measurements will reinforce the existing data and reveal unexpected roles of turgor in development.
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- Léna Beauzamy
- Reproduction et Développement des Plantes, INRA, CNRS, ENS de Lyon, UCBL Lyon I, 46 Allée d'Italie, 69364 Lyon Cedex 07, France Laboratoire Joliot-Curie, CNRS, ENS de Lyon, 46 Allée d'Italie, 69364 Lyon Cedex 07, France
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- Reproduction et Développement des Plantes, INRA, CNRS, ENS de Lyon, UCBL Lyon I, 46 Allée d'Italie, 69364 Lyon Cedex 07, France Laboratoire Joliot-Curie, CNRS, ENS de Lyon, 46 Allée d'Italie, 69364 Lyon Cedex 07, France Institute of Molecular Plant Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Mayfield Rd, King's Buildings, Edinburgh EH9 3JH, UK
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- Reproduction et Développement des Plantes, INRA, CNRS, ENS de Lyon, UCBL Lyon I, 46 Allée d'Italie, 69364 Lyon Cedex 07, France Laboratoire Joliot-Curie, CNRS, ENS de Lyon, 46 Allée d'Italie, 69364 Lyon Cedex 07, France
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Burian A, Ludynia M, Uyttewaal M, Traas J, Boudaoud A, Hamant O, Kwiatkowska D. A correlative microscopy approach relates microtubule behaviour, local organ geometry, and cell growth at the Arabidopsis shoot apical meristem. JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY 2013; 64:5753-67. [PMID: 24153420 PMCID: PMC3871827 DOI: 10.1093/jxb/ert352] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/19/2023]
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Cortical microtubules (CMTs) are often aligned in a particular direction in individual cells or even in groups of cells and play a central role in the definition of growth anisotropy. How the CMTs themselves are aligned is not well known, but two hypotheses have been proposed. According to the first hypothesis, CMTs align perpendicular to the maximal growth direction, and, according to the second, CMTs align parallel to the maximal stress direction. Since both hypotheses were formulated on the basis of mainly qualitative assessments, the link between CMT organization, organ geometry, and cell growth is revisited using a quantitative approach. For this purpose, CMT orientation, local curvature, and growth parameters for each cell were measured in the growing shoot apical meristem (SAM) of Arabidopsis thaliana. Using this approach, it has been shown that stable CMTs tend to be perpendicular to the direction of maximal growth in cells at the SAM periphery, but parallel in the cells at the boundary domain. When examining the local curvature of the SAM surface, no strict correlation between curvature and CMT arrangement was found, which implies that SAM geometry, and presumed geometry-derived stress distribution, is not sufficient to prescribe the CMT orientation. However, a better match between stress and CMTs was found when mechanical stress derived from differential growth was also considered.
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- Agata Burian
- Department of Biophysics and Morphogenesis of Plants, University of Silesia, Jagiellońska 28, 40-032 Katowice, Poland
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- Department of Biophysics and Morphogenesis of Plants, University of Silesia, Jagiellońska 28, 40-032 Katowice, Poland
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- Laboratoire de Reproduction et Développement des Plantes, INRA, CNRS, ENS, UCB Lyon 1, France
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- Laboratoire de Reproduction et Développement des Plantes, INRA, CNRS, ENS, UCB Lyon 1, France
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- Laboratoire de Reproduction et Développement des Plantes, INRA, CNRS, ENS, UCB Lyon 1, France
- Laboratoire Joliot Curie, CNRS, ENS Lyon, Université de Lyon, 46 Allée d’Italie, 69364 Lyon Cedex 07, France
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- Laboratoire de Reproduction et Développement des Plantes, INRA, CNRS, ENS, UCB Lyon 1, France
- Laboratoire Joliot Curie, CNRS, ENS Lyon, Université de Lyon, 46 Allée d’Italie, 69364 Lyon Cedex 07, France
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- Department of Biophysics and Morphogenesis of Plants, University of Silesia, Jagiellońska 28, 40-032 Katowice, Poland
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Robinson S, Burian A, Couturier E, Landrein B, Louveaux M, Neumann ED, Peaucelle A, Weber A, Nakayama N. Mechanical control of morphogenesis at the shoot apex. JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY 2013; 64:4729-44. [PMID: 23926314 DOI: 10.1093/jxb/ert199] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/22/2023]
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Morphogenesis does not just require the correct expression of patterning genes; these genes must induce the precise mechanical changes necessary to produce a new form. Mechanical characterization of plant growth is not new; however, in recent years, new technologies and interdisciplinary collaborations have made it feasible in young tissues such as the shoot apex. Analysis of tissues where active growth and developmental patterning are taking place has revealed biologically significant variability in mechanical properties and has even suggested that mechanical changes in the tissue can feed back to direct morphogenesis. Here, an overview is given of the current understanding of the mechanical dynamics and its influence on cellular and developmental processes in the shoot apex. We are only starting to uncover the mechanical basis of morphogenesis, and many exciting questions remain to be answered.
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- Sarah Robinson
- Institute of Plant Sciences, University of Bern, Altenbergrain 21, CH-3013 Bern, Switzerland
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Moulia B. Plant biomechanics and mechanobiology are convergent paths to flourishing interdisciplinary research. JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY 2013; 64:4617-33. [PMID: 24193603 DOI: 10.1093/jxb/ert320] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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- Bruno Moulia
- INRA (Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique), UMR0547 PIAF (Unité Mixte de Recherche PIAF Physique et Physiologie Intégratives de l'Arbre Fruitier et Forestier), F-63100 Clermont-Ferrand, France
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Forterre Y. Slow, fast and furious: understanding the physics of plant movements. JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY 2013; 64:4745-60. [PMID: 23913956 DOI: 10.1093/jxb/ert230] [Citation(s) in RCA: 94] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/02/2023]
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The ability of plants to move is central to many physiological processes from development to tropisms, from nutrition to reproduction. The movement of plants or plant parts occurs over a wide range of sizes and time scales. This review summarizes the main physical mechanisms plants use to achieve motility, highlighting recent work at the frontier of biology and physics on rapid movements. Emphasis is given to presenting in a single framework pioneering biological studies of water transport and growth with more recent physics research on poroelasticity and mechanical instabilities. First, the basic osmotic and hydration/dehydration motors are described that contribute to movement by growth and reversible swelling/shrinking of cells and tissues. The speeds of these water-driven movements are shown to be ultimately limited by the transport of water through the plant body. Some plant structures overcome this hydraulic limit to achieve much faster movement by using a mechanical instability. The principle is to impose an 'energy barrier' to the system, which can originate from geometrical constraint or matter cohesion, allowing elastic potential energy to be stored until the barrier is overcome, then rapidly transformed into kinetic energy. Three of these rapid motion mechanisms have been elucidated recently and are described here: the snapping traps of two carnivorous plants, the Venus flytrap and Utricularia, and the catapult of fern sporangia. Finally, movement mechanisms are reconsidered in the context of the timescale of important physiological processes at the cellular and molecular level.
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- Yoël Forterre
- IUSTI, CNRS UMR 7343, Université d'Aix-Marseille, 5 rue Enrico Fermi, 13453 Marseille cedex 13, France
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Baskin TI, Jensen OE. On the role of stress anisotropy in the growth of stems. JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY 2013; 64:4697-707. [PMID: 23913952 DOI: 10.1093/jxb/ert176] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/26/2023]
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We review the role of anisotropic stress in controlling the growth anisotropy of stems. Instead of stress, growth anisotropy is usually considered in terms of compliance. Anisotropic compliance is typical of cell walls, because they contain aligned cellulose microfibrils, and it appears to be sufficient to explain the growth anisotropy of an isolated cell. Nevertheless, a role for anisotropic stress in the growth of stems is indicated by certain growth responses that appear too rapid to be accounted for by changes in cell-wall compliance and because the outer epidermal wall of most growing stems has microfibrils aligned axially, an arrangement that would favour radial expansion based on cell-wall compliance alone. Efforts to quantify stress anisotropy in the stem have found that it is predominantly axial, and large enough in principle to explain the elongation of the epidermis, despite its axial microfibrils. That the epidermis experiences a stress deriving from the inner tissue, the so-called 'tissue stress', has been widely recognized; however, the origin of the dominant axial direction remains obscure. Based on geometry, an isolated cylindrical cell should have an intramural stress anisotropy favouring the transverse direction. Explanations for tissue stress have invoked differential elastic moduli, differential plastic deformation (so-called differential growth), and a phenomenon analogous to the maturation stress generated by secondary cell walls. None of these explanations has been validated. We suggest that understanding the role of stress anisotropy in plant growth requires a deeper understanding of the nature of stress in hierarchical, organic structures.
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- Tobias I Baskin
- Biology Department, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003, USA
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Jacques E, Verbelen JP, Vissenberg K. Mechanical stress in Arabidopsis leaves orients microtubules in a 'continuous' supracellular pattern. BMC PLANT BIOLOGY 2013; 13:163. [PMID: 24138025 PMCID: PMC3853881 DOI: 10.1186/1471-2229-13-163] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/29/2012] [Accepted: 10/09/2013] [Indexed: 05/02/2023]
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BACKGROUND Cortical microtubules form a dynamic network and continuously undergo shrinking (catastrophe), pausing and rebuilding (rescue). The advantage of such a dynamic system is that it may mediate appropriate responses in a short time span. Microtubules are known to play a pivotal role in determining the orientation of the cellulose microfibril deposition in the plant cell wall. The latter is a solid exoskeleton surrounding the protoplast. It forms the physical framework that interconnects most cells and has to bear the tensile stresses within the tissue. Here we describe the effect of externally applied pressure on microtubule organization in growing Arabidopsis leaves. RESULTS Confocal microscopy examination of transgenic plants bearing GFP-tagged TUA6 proteins led to the observation that application of an additional mechanical pressure on growing Arabidopsis leaves triggers an excessive bundling of microtubules within the individual cell. Besides, the microtubules seem to align in neighboring cells, creating a 'continuous' supracellular pattern. This effect occurs within 3 hours after applied external force and is age-dependent, whereby only cells of leaves up to 19 days after sowing (DAS) are susceptible to the applied pressure. CONCLUSIONS Upon externally applied pressure on developing Arabidopsis leaves, microtubules bundle and rearrange to form seemingly continuous supracellular patterns. As microtubules guide the cellulose synthase complexes, this observed reorganisation pattern probably affects the cellulose deposition, contributing to the reinforcement of the cell wall in a particular position to cope with the extra-applied pressure. The age-effect is reasonable, since younger cells, which are actively shaping their cell walls, are more vulnerable to altered mechanical stresses while in leaves older than 19 DAS, the walls are more robust and therefore can sustain the applied forces.
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- Eveline Jacques
- Department Biology, Plant Growth and Development, University of Antwerp, Groenenborgerlaan 171, 2020 Antwerpen, Belgium
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- Department Biology, Plant Growth and Development, University of Antwerp, Groenenborgerlaan 171, 2020 Antwerpen, Belgium
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- Department Biology, Plant Growth and Development, University of Antwerp, Groenenborgerlaan 171, 2020 Antwerpen, Belgium
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Landrein B, Hamant O. How mechanical stress controls microtubule behavior and morphogenesis in plants: history, experiments and revisited theories. THE PLANT JOURNAL : FOR CELL AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2013; 75:324-38. [PMID: 23551516 DOI: 10.1111/tpj.12188] [Citation(s) in RCA: 62] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/29/2012] [Revised: 03/11/2013] [Accepted: 03/20/2013] [Indexed: 05/19/2023]
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Microtubules have a key role in plant morphogenesis, as they control the oriented deposition of cellulose in the cell wall, and thus growth anisotropy. The idea that mechanical stress could be one of the main determinants behind the orientation of microtubules in plant cells emerged very soon after their discovery. The cause of mechanical stress in plant cells is turgor pressure, which can build up to 1 MPa and is restrained by cell wall stiffness. On the tissue scale, this can lead to regional patterns of tension, in particular in the epidermis of aerial organs, which resist the stress generated by cells in internal tissues. Here we summarize more than 50 years of work on the contribution of mechanical stress in guiding microtubule behavior, and the resulting impact on growth anisotropy and growth heterogeneity. We propose a conceptual model on microtubule dynamics and their ability to self-organize in bundles parallel to the direction of maximal stress, as well as a synthetic representation of the putative mechanotransducers at play.
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- Benoît Landrein
- Laboratoire de Reproduction et Développement des Plantes, INRA, CNRS, ENS, UCB Lyon 1, 46 Allee d'Italie, Lyon, Cedex 07 69364, France
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Kawade K, Horiguchi G, Usami T, Hirai M, Tsukaya H. ANGUSTIFOLIA3 Signaling Coordinates Proliferation between Clonally Distinct Cells in Leaves. Curr Biol 2013; 23:788-92. [DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2013.03.044] [Citation(s) in RCA: 81] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/30/2013] [Revised: 03/07/2013] [Accepted: 03/19/2013] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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Hartmann J, Stührwohldt N, Dahlke RI, Sauter M. Phytosulfokine control of growth occurs in the epidermis, is likely to be non-cell autonomous and is dependent on brassinosteroids. THE PLANT JOURNAL : FOR CELL AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2013; 73:579-590. [PMID: 23083315 DOI: 10.1111/tpj.12056] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/13/2012] [Revised: 10/02/2012] [Accepted: 10/17/2012] [Indexed: 06/01/2023]
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Phytosulfokine (PSK) is a secreted disulfated pentapeptide that controls root and shoot growth. The ubiquitous expression of PSK precursor and of the LRR receptor kinase genes in Arabidopsis raised the question of whether PSK acts as an autocrine growth factor in planta. Expression of PSKR1 under the control of tissue- and cell type-specific promoters in a receptor null background strongly suggests that PSK is a non-cell autonomous signal that controls growth through localized activity in the epidermis. pskr1-3 pskr2-1 seedlings had shorter roots and hypocotyls than the wild type, whereas 35S: PSKR1 or 35S: PSKR2 seedlings were larger, indicating that receptor abundance limits growth in planta. The preferential expression of PSKR1 in the epidermis of CER6: PSKR1 pskr1-3 pskr2-1 seedlings was sufficient to promote wild-type growth. Moreover, in GL2:PSKR1 pskr1-3 pskr2-1 seedlings that express PSKR1 in atrichoblasts of the root epidermis, root growth was restored to wild-type levels. In pskr1-3 pskr2-1 seedlings, trichoblasts and atrichoblasts were shorter than in the wild type. Trichoblasts of GL2:PSKR1 pskr1-3 pskr2-1 seedlings, which are unable to sense PSK, nonetheless had acquired wild-type length, suggesting that PSK acts as a non-cell autonomous signal. Inhibition of brassinosteroid (BR) biosynthesis with brassinazole (BZ) caused a loss of responsiveness to PSK in wild-type, tpst-1 (tyrosylprotein sulfotransferase-1), PSKR1ox12 and CER6:PSKR1-3-1 seedlings, as did the genetic knock-out of BR synthesis in det2-1 and of BR perception in bri1-9, suggesting that BR mediates PSK-dependent growth. Quantitative PCR analysis of BR-related genes in wild-type, pskr1-3 pskr2-1, PSKR1ox and tpst-1 seedlings showed largely unchanged transcript levels of BR biosynthesis genes.
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- Jens Hartmann
- Entwicklungsbiologie und Physiologie der Pflanzen, Am Botanischen Garten 5, Kiel, 24113, Germany
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Mechanics in Leaf Venation Morphogenesis and their Biomimetic Inspiration to Construct a 2-Dimensional Reinforcement Layout Model. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2011. [DOI: 10.4028/www.scientific.net/jbbte.10.81] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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This paper concerns biomimetic exploration of the leaf rib layout problem. Biological venation of organisms is observed to be similar to reinforced plate/shell systems. Similarity analysis makes it clear that dicotyledonous leaves are an ideal research subject. In this paper, global and local regularities are summarized and existing theories on venation morphogenesis are discussed and compared. An energy hypothesis is proposed to cater for interdisciplinary applications. A venation growing model was then used to construct a two-dimensional reinforcement layout model. The biomechanical expressions developed can be an alternative to describe rib-in-plate or fibre-in-composite materials.
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Kwiatkowska D, Nakielski J. Mechanics of the Meristems. MECHANICAL INTEGRATION OF PLANT CELLS AND PLANTS 2011. [DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-19091-9_6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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Green AA, Kennaway JR, Hanna AI, Bangham JA, Coen E. Genetic control of organ shape and tissue polarity. PLoS Biol 2010; 8:e1000537. [PMID: 21085690 PMCID: PMC2976718 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1000537] [Citation(s) in RCA: 84] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/14/2010] [Accepted: 09/28/2010] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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A combination of experimental analysis and mathematical modelling shows how the genetic control of tissue polarity plays a fundamental role in the development and evolution of form. The mechanisms by which genes control organ shape are poorly understood. In principle, genes may control shape by modifying local rates and/or orientations of deformation. Distinguishing between these possibilities has been difficult because of interactions between patterns, orientations, and mechanical constraints during growth. Here we show how a combination of growth analysis, molecular genetics, and modelling can be used to dissect the factors contributing to shape. Using the Snapdragon (Antirrhinum) flower as an example, we show how shape development reflects local rates and orientations of tissue growth that vary spatially and temporally to form a dynamic growth field. This growth field is under the control of several dorsoventral genes that influence flower shape. The action of these genes can be modelled by assuming they modulate specified growth rates parallel or perpendicular to local orientations, established by a few key organisers of tissue polarity. Models in which dorsoventral genes only influence specified growth rates do not fully account for the observed growth fields and shapes. However, the data can be readily explained by a model in which dorsoventral genes also modify organisers of tissue polarity. In particular, genetic control of tissue polarity organisers at ventral petal junctions and distal boundaries allows both the shape and growth field of the flower to be accounted for in wild type and mutants. The results suggest that genetic control of tissue polarity organisers has played a key role in the development and evolution of shape. Genes are known to control the shape of biological structures, like flowers, hearts, and limbs, yet how they do this is poorly understood. A working hypothesis is that genes control shape by modulating local rates at which growing tissue deforms. Evaluating this idea has been difficult, however, because of the dynamic interactions that occur within growing and deforming tissue. To address this problem, we used a combination of experimental and mathematical modelling approaches to study how genes control shape in the Snapdragon flower. This system has the advantages of having well defined genes that influence shape and being accessible to growth analysis. We first tried to explain the experimental data with a model in which genes influence local rates of tissue growth. While this model could capture many aspects of flower development, it failed to account for some key features. These could be most readily explained if genes also affect an internal field of orientations along which growth is directed, established by organisers of tissue polarity. Our analysis therefore revealed a previously unsuspected role of shape genes in the control of tissue polarity, highlighting the importance of this process for the development and evolution of tissue forms.
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- Amelia A. Green
- Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, John Innes Centre, Norwich, United Kingdom
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- University of East Anglia, School of Computing Sciences, Norwich, United Kingdom
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- University of East Anglia, School of Computing Sciences, Norwich, United Kingdom
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- University of East Anglia, School of Computing Sciences, Norwich, United Kingdom
- * E-mail: (EC); (JAB)
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- Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, John Innes Centre, Norwich, United Kingdom
- * E-mail: (EC); (JAB)
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Yazdanbakhsh N, Fisahn J. Analysis of Arabidopsis thaliana root growth kinetics with high temporal and spatial resolution. ANNALS OF BOTANY 2010; 105:783-91. [PMID: 20421235 PMCID: PMC2859919 DOI: 10.1093/aob/mcq048] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/30/2009] [Revised: 01/06/2010] [Accepted: 02/02/2010] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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BACKGROUND Methods exist to quantify the distribution of growth rate over the root axis. However, non-destructive, high-throughput evaluations of total root elongation in controlled environments and the field are lacking in growth studies. A new imaging approach to analyse total root elongation is described. SCOPE High pixel resolution of the images enables the study of growth in short time intervals and provides high temporal resolution. Using the method described, total root elongation rates are calculated from the displacement of the root tip. Although the absolute root elongation rate changes in response to growth conditions, this set-up enables root growth of Arabidopsis wild-type seedlings to be followed for more than 1 month after germination. The method provides an easy approach to decipher root extension rate and much simpler calculations compared with other methods that use segmental growth to address this question. CONCLUSIONS The high temporal resolution allows small modifications of total root elongation growth to be revealed. Furthermore, with the options to investigate growth of various mutants in diverse growth conditions the present tool allows modulations in root growth kinetics due to different biotic and abiotic stimuli to be unravelled. Measurements performed on Arabidopsis thaliana wild-type (Col0) plants revealed rhythms superimposed on root elongation. Results obtained from the starchless mutant pgm, however, present a clearly modified pattern. As expected, deviation is strongest during the dark period.
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- Nima Yazdanbakhsh
- Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, 14476 Potsdam-Golm, Germany.
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Vandiver R, Goriely A. Differential growth and residual stress in cylindrical elastic structures. PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS. SERIES A, MATHEMATICAL, PHYSICAL, AND ENGINEERING SCIENCES 2009; 367:3607-3630. [PMID: 19657013 DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2009.0114] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/28/2023]
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Cylindrical forms are among one of Nature's fundamental building blocks. They serve many different purposes, from sustaining body weight to carrying flows. Their mechanical properties are generated through the often complex arrangements of the walls. In particular, in many structures that have elastic responses, such as stems and arteries, the walls are in a state of tension generated by differential growth. Here, the effect of differential growth and residual stress on the overall mechanical response of the cylindrical structure is studied within the framework of morpho-elasticity.
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- Rebecca Vandiver
- Program in Applied Mathematics, University of Arizona, Building no. 89, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA
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Hamant O, Heisler MG, Jönsson H, Krupinski P, Uyttewaal M, Bokov P, Corson F, Sahlin P, Boudaoud A, Meyerowitz EM, Couder Y, Traas J. Developmental patterning by mechanical signals in Arabidopsis. Science 2009; 322:1650-5. [PMID: 19074340 DOI: 10.1126/science.1165594] [Citation(s) in RCA: 617] [Impact Index Per Article: 41.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/24/2023]
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A central question in developmental biology is whether and how mechanical forces serve as cues for cellular behavior and thereby regulate morphogenesis. We found that morphogenesis at the Arabidopsis shoot apex depends on the microtubule cytoskeleton, which in turn is regulated by mechanical stress. A combination of experiments and modeling shows that a feedback loop encompassing tissue morphology, stress patterns, and microtubule-mediated cellular properties is sufficient to account for the coordinated patterns of microtubule arrays observed in epidermal cells, as well as for patterns of apical morphogenesis.
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- Olivier Hamant
- INRA, Laboratoire de Reproduction et Développement des Plantes, 46 Allée d'Italie, 69364 Lyon Cedex 07, France
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Moulia B, Fournier M. The power and control of gravitropic movements in plants: a biomechanical and systems biology view. JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY 2009; 60:461-86. [PMID: 19264759 DOI: 10.1093/jxb/ern341] [Citation(s) in RCA: 103] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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The study of gravitropic movements in plants has enjoyed a long history of research going back to the pioneering works of the 19th century and the famous book entitled 'The power of movement in plants' by Charles and Francis Darwin. Over the last few decades, the emphasis has shifted towards the cellular and molecular biology of gravisensing and the onset of auxin gradients across the organs. However, our understanding of plant movement cannot be completed before quantifying spatio-temporal changes in curvature and how they are produced through the motor process of active bending and controlled by gravisensing. This review sets out to show how combining approaches borrowed from continuum mechanics (kinematic imaging, structural modelling) with approaches from physiology and modern molecular biology has made it possible to generate integrative biomechanical models of the processes involved in gravitropism at several levels. The physiological and biomechanical bases are reviewed and two of the most complete integrative models of the gravireaction organ available are then compared, highlighting how the comparison between movements driven by differential growth and movements driven by reaction wood formation in woody organs has provided highly informative key insights. The advantages of these models as tools for analysing genetic control through quantitative process-based phenotyping as well as for identifying target traits for ecological studies are discussed. It is argued that such models are tools for a systems biology approach to gravitropic movement that has the potential to resolve at least some of the research questions raised 150 years ago.
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- Bruno Moulia
- INRA, UMR 547 PIAF, F-63100 Clermont-Fd Cedex 01, France.
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Laguna MF, Bohn S, Jagla EA. The role of elastic stresses on leaf venation morphogenesis. PLoS Comput Biol 2008; 4:e1000055. [PMID: 18404203 PMCID: PMC2275310 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000055] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/13/2007] [Accepted: 03/11/2008] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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We explore the possible role of elastic mismatch between epidermis and mesophyll as a driving force for the development of leaf venation. The current prevalent ‘canalization’ hypothesis for the formation of veins claims that the transport of the hormone auxin out of the leaves triggers cell differentiation to form veins. Although there is evidence that auxin plays a fundamental role in vein formation, the simple canalization mechanism may not be enough to explain some features observed in the vascular system of leaves, in particular, the abundance of vein loops. We present a model based on the existence of mechanical instabilities that leads very naturally to hierarchical patterns with a large number of closed loops. When applied to the structure of high-order veins, the numerical results show the same qualitative features as actual venation patterns and, furthermore, have the same statistical properties. We argue that the agreement between actual and simulated patterns provides strong evidence for the role of mechanical effects on venation development. Leaf venation patterns of most angiosperm plants are hierarchical structures that develop during leaf growth. A remarkable characteristic of these structures is the abundance of closed loops: the venation array divides the leaf surface into disconnected polygonal sectors. The initial vein generations are repetitive within the same species, while high-order vein generations are much more diverse but still show preserved statistical properties. The accepted view of vein formation is the auxin canalization hypothesis: a high flow of the hormone auxin triggers cell differentiation to form veins. Although the role of auxin in vein formation is well established, some issues are difficult to explain within this model, in particular, the abundance of loops of high-order veins. In this work, we explore the previously proposed idea that elastic stresses may play an important role in the development of venation patterns. This appealing hypothesis naturally explains the existence of hierarchical structures with abundant closed loops. To test whether it can sustain a quantitative comparison with actual venation patterns, we have developed and implemented a numerical model and statistically compare actual and simulated patterns. The overall similarity we found indicates that elastic stresses should be included in a complete description of leaf venation development.
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- Maria F Laguna
- Centro Atómico Bariloche, Comisión Nacional de Energía Atómica, Bariloche, Argentina.
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Hejnowicz Z, Borowska-Wykret D. Buckling of inner cell wall layers after manipulations to reduce tensile stress: observations and interpretations for stress transmission. PLANTA 2005; 220:465-473. [PMID: 15365835 DOI: 10.1007/s00425-004-1353-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/30/2004] [Accepted: 06/30/2004] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
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The inner layer of the cell wall in tissues that are under tensile stress in situ, e.g. epidermis and collenchyma of etiolated sunflower hypocotyls, shows a pattern of transverse folds when the tissues are detached and plasmolysed. This can be observed by Nomarski imaging of inner surfaces of the outer cell walls and electron microscopy of longitudinal sections after peeling the epidermis and bathing it in plasmolysing solutions. The folds are apparently caused by buckling of the inner layer due to the longitudinal compressive force exerted on this layer by the outer wall layer, when it shrinks after the removal of the longitudinal tensile stresses. In these stresses, two components can be distinguished: the tissue stress, disappearing on peeling, and that caused directly by turgor pressure, disappearing in hyperosmotic solution. Investigation of the buckling indicates that the outer layer of the cell wall transmits in situ most of the longitudinal tensile stress in the wall. The common concept that the inner layer of the wall is the region bearing most stress and therefore regulating growth can still be valid with respect to the transverse stress component.
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- Zygmunt Hejnowicz
- Department of Biophysics and Cell Biology, Silesian University, ul. Jagiellonska 28, 40032 Katowice, Poland.
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Peters WS, Tomos AD. The mechanic state of "inner tissue" in the growing zone of sunflower hypocotyls and the regulation of its growth rate following excision. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 2000; 123:605-12. [PMID: 10859190 PMCID: PMC59028 DOI: 10.1104/pp.123.2.605] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/22/1999] [Accepted: 02/03/2000] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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Spontaneous growth of isolated inner tissue from the etiolated sunflower (Helianthus annuus L.) hypocotyl growing zone was investigated. A new preparation technique allowed measurements starting 3 s after excision. Elongation with respect to the turgescent and plasmolized state was quantified in terms of relative growth rates, facilitating comparison to growth in situ. Turgor and turgor-induced strain were determined. Overall longitudinal strain in inner tissues in situ was positive, indicating that compressive forces exerted by peripheral tissues are outweighed by turgor-dependent tensile stress. Inner tissue expansion following isolation depended on water uptake. Extreme plastic extension rates occurred immediately after excision, suggesting that mechanical parameters of inner tissue in situ cannot be extrapolated from the mechanics of excised sections. In the long term, excised inner tissue autonomously established values of turgor, turgor-induced strain, and relative growth rates similar to values in the living plant. These results support historic models of tissue cooperation during organ growth, in which inner tissues actively participate in the control of growth rates.
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- W S Peters
- Ysgol Gwyddorau Biolegol, Prifysgol Cymru, Bangor, Cymru, United Kingdom.
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Peters WS, Hagemann W, Deri Tomos A. What makes plants different? Principles of extracellular matrix function in 'soft' plant tissues. Comp Biochem Physiol A Mol Integr Physiol 2000; 125:151-67. [PMID: 10825689 DOI: 10.1016/s1095-6433(99)00177-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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An overview of the biomechanic and morphogenetic function of the plant extracellular matrix (ECM) in its primary state is given. ECMs can play a pivotal role in cellular osmo- and volume-regulation, if they enclose the cell hermetically and constrain hydrostatic pressure evoked by osmotic gradients between the cell and its environment. From an engineering viewpoint, such cell walls turn cells into hydraulic machines, which establishes a crucial functional differences between cell walls and other cellular surface structures. Examples of such hydraulic machineries are discussed. The function of cell walls in the control of pressure, volume, and shape establishes constructional evolutionary constraints, which can explain aspects commonly considered typical of plants (sessility, autotrophy). In plants, 'cell division' by insertion of a new cell wall is a process of internal cytoplasmic differentiation. As such it differs fundamentally from cell separation during cytokinesis in animals, by leaving the coherence of the dividing protoplast basically intact. The resulting symplastic coherence appears more important for plant morphogenesis than histological structure; similar morphologies are realized on the basis of distinct tissue architectures in different plant taxa. The shape of a plant cell is determined by the shape its cell wall attains under multiaxial tensile stress. Consequently, the development of form in plants is achieved by a differential plastic deformation of the complex ECM in response to this multiaxial force (hydrostatic pressure). Current concepts of the regulation of these deformation processes are briefly evaluated.
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- W S Peters
- AK Kinematische Zellforschung, Biozentrum der J.W. Goethe-Universität, Marie-Curie-Str. 9, D-60439, Frankfurt, Germany.
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