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Scarpella E. Leaf Vein Patterning. ANNUAL REVIEW OF PLANT BIOLOGY 2024; 75:377-398. [PMID: 38382907 DOI: 10.1146/annurev-arplant-062923-030348] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/23/2024]
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Leaves form veins whose patterns vary from a single vein running the length of the leaf to networks of staggering complexity where huge numbers of veins connect to other veins at both ends. For the longest time, vein formation was thought to be controlled only by the polar, cell-to-cell transport of the plant hormone auxin; recent evidence suggests that is not so. Instead, it turns out that vein patterning features are best accounted for by a combination of polar auxin transport, facilitated auxin diffusion through plasmodesma intercellular channels, and auxin signal transduction-though the latter's precise contribution remains unclear. Equally unclear remain the sites of auxin production during leaf development, on which that vein patterning mechanism ought to depend. Finally, whether that vein patterning mechanism can account for the variety of vein arrangements found in nature remains unknown. Addressing those questions will be the exciting challenge of future research.
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- Enrico Scarpella
- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada;
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Michalak KM, Wojciechowska N, Marzec-Schmidt K, Bagniewska-Zadworna A. Conserved autophagy and diverse cell wall composition: unifying features of vascular tissues in evolutionarily distinct plants. ANNALS OF BOTANY 2024; 133:559-572. [PMID: 38324309 PMCID: PMC11037490 DOI: 10.1093/aob/mcae015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/13/2023] [Accepted: 02/02/2024] [Indexed: 02/08/2024]
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BACKGROUND AND AIMS The formation of multifunctional vascular tissues represents a significant advancement in plant evolution. Differentiation of conductive cells is specific, involving two main pathways, namely protoplast clearance and cell wall modification. In xylogenesis, autophagy is a crucial process for complete protoplast elimination in tracheary elements, whose cell wall also undergoes strong changes. Knowledge pertaining to living sieve elements, which lose most of their protoplast during phloemogenesis, remains limited. We hypothesized that autophagy plays a crucial role, not only in complete cytoplasmic clearance in xylem but also in partial degradation in phloem. Cell wall elaborations of mature sieve elements are not so extensive. These analyses performed on evolutionarily diverse model species potentially make it possible to understand phloemogenesis to an equal extent to xylogenesis. METHODS We investigated the distribution of ATG8 protein, which is an autophagy marker, and cell wall components in the roots of ferns, gymnosperms and angiosperms (monocots, dicot herbaceous plants and trees). Furthermore, we conducted a bioinformatic analysis of complete data on ATG8 isoforms for Ceratopteris richardii. KEY RESULTS The presence of ATG8 protein was confirmed in both tracheary elements and sieve elements; however, the composition of cell wall components varied considerably among vascular tissues in the selected plants. Arabinogalactan proteins and β-1,4-galactan were detected in the roots of all studied species, suggesting their potential importance in phloem formation or function. In contrast, no evolutionary pattern was observed for xyloglucan, arabinan or homogalacturonan. CONCLUSIONS Our findings indicate that the involvement of autophagy in plants is universal during the development of tracheary elements that are dead at maturity and sieve elements that remain alive. Given the conserved nature of autophagy and its function in protoplast degradation for uninterrupted flow, autophagy might have played a vital role in the development of increasingly complex biological organizations, including the formation of vascular tissues. However, different cell wall compositions of xylem and phloem in different species might indicate diverse functionality and potential for substance transport, which is crucial in plant evolution.
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- Kornel M Michalak
- Department of General Botany, Institute of Experimental Biology, Faculty of Biology, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Uniwersytetu Poznańskiego 6, 61-614 Poznań, Poland
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- Department of General Botany, Institute of Experimental Biology, Faculty of Biology, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Uniwersytetu Poznańskiego 6, 61-614 Poznań, Poland
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- Department of General Botany, Institute of Experimental Biology, Faculty of Biology, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Uniwersytetu Poznańskiego 6, 61-614 Poznań, Poland
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von der Mark C, Minne M, De Rybel B. Studying plant vascular development using single-cell approaches. CURRENT OPINION IN PLANT BIOLOGY 2024; 78:102526. [PMID: 38479078 DOI: 10.1016/j.pbi.2024.102526] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/29/2024] [Revised: 02/20/2024] [Accepted: 02/28/2024] [Indexed: 04/07/2024]
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Vascular cells form a highly complex and heterogeneous tissue. Its composition, function, shape, and arrangement vary with the developmental stage and between organs and species. Understanding the transcriptional regulation underpinning this complexity thus requires a high-resolution technique that is capable of capturing rapid events during vascular cell formation. Single-cell and single-nucleus RNA sequencing (sc/snRNA-seq) approaches provide powerful tools to extract transcriptional information from these lowly abundant and dynamically changing cell types, which allows the reconstruction of developmental trajectories. Here, we summarize and reflect on recent studies using single-cell transcriptomics to study vascular cell types and discuss current and future implementations of sc/snRNA-seq approaches in the field of vascular development.
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- Claudia von der Mark
- Ghent University, Department of Plant Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, Ghent, Belgium; VIB Center for Plant Systems Biology, Ghent, Belgium
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- Ghent University, Department of Plant Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, Ghent, Belgium; VIB Center for Plant Systems Biology, Ghent, Belgium
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- Ghent University, Department of Plant Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, Ghent, Belgium; VIB Center for Plant Systems Biology, Ghent, Belgium.
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Zhang SY, Zhao BG, Shen Z, Mei YC, Li G, Dong FQ, Zhang J, Chao Q, Wang BC. Integrating ATAC-seq and RNA-seq to identify differentially expressed genes with chromatin-accessible changes during photosynthetic establishment in Populus leaves. PLANT MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2023; 113:59-74. [PMID: 37634200 DOI: 10.1007/s11103-023-01375-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/16/2023] [Accepted: 08/03/2023] [Indexed: 08/29/2023]
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Leaves are the primary photosynthetic organs, providing essential substances for tree growth. It is important to obtain an anatomical understanding and regulatory network analysis of leaf development. Here, we studied leaf development in Populus Nanlin895 along a development gradient from the newly emerged leaf from the shoot apex to the sixth leaf (L1 to L6) using anatomical observations and RNA-seq analysis. It indicated that mesophyll cells possess obvious vascular, palisade, and spongy tissue with distinct intercellular spaces after L3. Additionally, vacuoles fuse while epidermal cells expand to form pavement cells. RNA-seq analysis indicated that genes highly expressed in L1 and L2 were related to cell division and differentiation, while those highly expressed in L3 were enriched in photosynthesis. Therefore, we selected L1 and L3 to integrate ATAC-seq and RNA-seq and identified 735 differentially expressed genes (DEGs) with changes in chromatin accessibility regions within their promoters, of which 87 were transcription factors (TFs), such as ABI3VP1, AP-EREBP, MYB, NAC, and GRF. Motif enrichment analysis revealed potential regulatory functions for the DEGs through upstream TFs including TCP, bZIP, HD-ZIP, Dof, BBR-BPC, and MYB. Overall, our research provides a potential molecular foundation for regulatory network exploration in leaf development during photosynthesis establishment.
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- Sheng-Ying Zhang
- Photosynthesis Research Center, Key Laboratory of Photobiology, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100093, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China
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- Photosynthesis Research Center, Key Laboratory of Photobiology, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100093, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China
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- Guangdong Key Laboratory for New Technology Research of Vegetables, Vegetable Research Institute, Guangdong Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Guangzhou, 510640, China
- State Key Laboratory of Tree Genetics and Breeding, Northeast Forestry University, Harbin, 150040, China
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- Photosynthesis Research Center, Key Laboratory of Photobiology, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100093, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China
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- Photosynthesis Research Center, Key Laboratory of Photobiology, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100093, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China
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- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China
- The Key Laboratory of Plant Molecular Physiology, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- Photosynthesis Research Center, Key Laboratory of Photobiology, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100093, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China
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- Photosynthesis Research Center, Key Laboratory of Photobiology, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100093, China.
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China.
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- Photosynthesis Research Center, Key Laboratory of Photobiology, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100093, China.
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China.
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Scarpella E. Axes and polarities in leaf vein formation. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 2023; 193:112-124. [PMID: 37261944 DOI: 10.1093/plphys/kiad321] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/01/2023] [Revised: 04/21/2023] [Accepted: 05/04/2023] [Indexed: 06/03/2023]
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For multicellular organisms to develop, cells must grow, divide, and differentiate along preferential or exclusive orientations or directions. Moreover, those orientations, or axes, and directions, or polarities, must be coordinated between cells within and between tissues. Therefore, how axes and polarities are coordinated between cells is a key question in biology. In animals, such coordination mainly depends on cell migration and direct interaction between proteins protruding from the plasma membrane. Both cell movements and direct cell-cell interactions are prevented in plants by cell walls that surround plant cells and keep them apart and in place. Therefore, plants have evolved unique mechanisms to coordinate their cell axes and polarities. Here I will discuss evidence suggesting that understanding how leaf veins form may uncover those unique mechanisms. Indeed, unlike previously thought, the cell-to-cell polar transport of the plant hormone auxin along developing veins cannot account for many features of vein patterning. Instead, those features can be accounted for by models of vein patterning that combine polar auxin transport with auxin diffusion through plasmodesmata along the axis of developing veins. Though it remains unclear whether such a combination of polar transport and axial diffusion of auxin can account for the formation of the variety of vein patterns found in plant leaves, evidence suggests that such a combined mechanism may control plant developmental processes beyond vein patterning.
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- Enrico Scarpella
- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, CW-405 Biological Sciences Building, Edmonton, AB T6G 2E9, Canada
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Robil JM, McSteen P. Hormonal control of medial-lateral growth and vein formation in the maize leaf. THE NEW PHYTOLOGIST 2023; 238:125-141. [PMID: 36404129 DOI: 10.1111/nph.18625] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/15/2022] [Accepted: 11/07/2022] [Indexed: 06/16/2023]
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Parallel veins are characteristic of monocots, including grasses (Poaceae). Therefore, how parallel veins develop as the leaf grows in the medial-lateral (ML) dimension is a key question in grass leaf development. Using fluorescent protein reporters, we mapped auxin, cytokinin (CK), and gibberellic acid (GA) response patterns in maize (Zea mays) leaf primordia. We further defined the roles of these hormones in ML growth and vein formation through combinatorial genetic analyses and measurement of hormone concentrations. We discovered a novel pattern of auxin response in the adaxial protoderm that we hypothesize has important implications for the orderly formation of 3° veins early in leaf development. In addition, we found an auxin transport and response pattern in the margins that correlate with the transition from ML to proximal-distal growth. We present evidence that auxin efflux precedes CK response in procambial strand development. We also determined that GA plays an early role in the shoot apical meristem as well as a later role in the primordium to restrict ML growth. We propose an integrative model whereby auxin regulates ML growth and vein formation in the maize leaf through control of GA and CK.
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- Janlo M Robil
- Division of Biological Sciences, Interdisciplinary Plant Group, and Missouri Maize Center, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, 65211, USA
- Department of Biology, School of Science and Engineering, Ateneo de Manila University, Loyola Heights, Quezon City, Metro Manila, 1108, Philippines
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- Division of Biological Sciences, Interdisciplinary Plant Group, and Missouri Maize Center, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, 65211, USA
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Linh NM, Scarpella E. Leaf vein patterning is regulated by the aperture of plasmodesmata intercellular channels. PLoS Biol 2022; 20:e3001781. [PMID: 36166438 PMCID: PMC9514613 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3001781] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/06/2022] [Accepted: 08/03/2022] [Indexed: 02/03/2023] Open
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To form tissue networks, animal cells migrate and interact through proteins protruding from their plasma membranes. Plant cells can do neither, yet plants form vein networks. How plants do so is unclear, but veins are thought to form by the coordinated action of the polar transport and signal transduction of the plant hormone auxin. However, plants inhibited in both pathways still form veins. Patterning of vascular cells into veins is instead prevented in mutants lacking the function of the GNOM (GN) regulator of auxin transport and signaling, suggesting the existence of at least one more GN-dependent vein-patterning pathway. Here we show that in Arabidopsis such a pathway depends on the movement of auxin or an auxin-dependent signal through plasmodesmata (PDs) intercellular channels. PD permeability is high where veins are forming, lowers between veins and nonvascular tissues, but remains high between vein cells. Impaired ability to regulate PD aperture leads to defects in auxin transport and signaling, ultimately leading to vein patterning defects that are enhanced by inhibition of auxin transport or signaling. GN controls PD aperture regulation, and simultaneous inhibition of auxin signaling, auxin transport, and regulated PD aperture phenocopies null gn mutants. Therefore, veins are patterned by the coordinated action of three GN-dependent pathways: auxin signaling, polar auxin transport, and movement of auxin or an auxin-dependent signal through PDs. Such a mechanism of tissue network formation is unprecedented in multicellular organisms. How do plants form vein networks, in the absence of cellular migration or direct cell-cell interaction? This study shows that a GNOM-dependent combination of polar auxin transport, auxin signal transduction, and movement of an auxin signal through plasmodesmata patterns leaf vascular cells into veins.
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- Nguyen Manh Linh
- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
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Kastanaki E, Blanco-Touriñán N, Sarazin A, Sturchler A, Gujas B, Vera-Sirera F, Agustí J, Rodriguez-Villalon A. A genetic framework for proximal secondary vein branching in the Arabidopsis thaliana embryo. Development 2022; 149:275816. [PMID: 35723181 PMCID: PMC9270971 DOI: 10.1242/dev.200403] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/30/2021] [Accepted: 05/09/2022] [Indexed: 01/09/2023]
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Over time, plants have evolved flexible self-organizing patterning mechanisms to adapt tissue functionality for continuous organ growth. An example of this process is the multicellular organization of cells into a vascular network in foliar organs. An important, yet poorly understood component of this process is secondary vein branching, a mechanism employed to extend vascular tissues throughout the cotyledon surface. Here, we uncover two distinct branching mechanisms during embryogenesis by analyzing the discontinuous vein network of the double mutant cotyledon vascular pattern 2 (cvp2) cvp2-like 1 (cvl1). Similar to wild-type embryos, distal veins in cvp2 cvl1 embryos arise from the bifurcation of cell files contained in the midvein, whereas proximal branching is absent in this mutant. Restoration of this process can be achieved by increasing OCTOPUS dosage as well as by silencing RECEPTOR-LIKE PROTEIN KINASE 2 (RPK2) expression. Although RPK2-dependent rescue of cvp2 cvl1 is auxin- and CLE peptide-independent, distal branching involves polar auxin transport and follows a distinct regulatory mechanism. Our work defines a genetic network that confers plasticity to Arabidopsis embryos to spatially adapt vascular tissues to organ growth.
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- Elizabeth Kastanaki
- Group of Plant Vascular Development, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich, CH-8092 Zurich, Switzerland
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- Group of Plant Vascular Development, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich, CH-8092 Zurich, Switzerland,Authors for correspondence (; )
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- Group of RNA Biology, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich, CH-8092 Zurich, Switzerland
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- Group of Plant Vascular Development, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich, CH-8092 Zurich, Switzerland
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- Group of Plant Vascular Development, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich, CH-8092 Zurich, Switzerland
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- Instituto de Biología Molecular y Celular de Plantas, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)-Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV), 46022 Valencia, Spain
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- Instituto de Biología Molecular y Celular de Plantas, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)-Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV), 46022 Valencia, Spain
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- Group of Plant Vascular Development, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich, CH-8092 Zurich, Switzerland,Authors for correspondence (; )
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Perico C, Tan S, Langdale JA. Developmental regulation of leaf venation patterns: monocot versus eudicots and the role of auxin. THE NEW PHYTOLOGIST 2022; 234:783-803. [PMID: 35020214 PMCID: PMC9994446 DOI: 10.1111/nph.17955] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/15/2021] [Accepted: 12/14/2021] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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Organisation and patterning of the vascular network in land plants varies in different taxonomic, developmental and environmental contexts. In leaves, the degree of vascular strand connectivity influences both light and CO2 harvesting capabilities as well as hydraulic capacity. As such, developmental mechanisms that regulate leaf venation patterning have a direct impact on physiological performance. Development of the leaf venation network requires the specification of procambial cells within the ground meristem of the primordium and subsequent proliferation and differentiation of the procambial lineage to form vascular strands. An understanding of how diverse venation patterns are manifest therefore requires mechanistic insight into how procambium is dynamically specified in a growing leaf. A role for auxin in this process was identified many years ago, but questions remain. In this review we first provide an overview of the diverse venation patterns that exist in land plants, providing an evolutionary perspective. We then focus on the developmental regulation of leaf venation patterns in angiosperms, comparing patterning in eudicots and monocots, and the role of auxin in each case. Although common themes emerge, we conclude that the developmental mechanisms elucidated in eudicots are unlikely to fully explain how parallel venation patterns in monocot leaves are elaborated.
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- Chiara Perico
- Department of Plant SciencesUniversity of OxfordSouth Parks RdOxfordOX1 3RBUK
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- Department of Plant SciencesUniversity of OxfordSouth Parks RdOxfordOX1 3RBUK
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- Department of Plant SciencesUniversity of OxfordSouth Parks RdOxfordOX1 3RBUK
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Zhao BG, Li G, Wang YF, Yan Z, Dong FQ, Mei YC, Zeng W, Lu MZ, Li HB, Chao Q, Wang BC. PdeHCA2 affects biomass in Populus by regulating plant architecture, the transition from primary to secondary growth, and photosynthesis. PLANTA 2022; 255:101. [PMID: 35397691 DOI: 10.1007/s00425-022-03883-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/03/2021] [Accepted: 03/25/2022] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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PdeHCA2 regulates the transition from primary to secondary growth, plant architecture, and affects photosynthesis by targeting PdeBRC1 and controlling the anatomy of the mesophyll, and intercellular space, respectively. Branching, secondary growth, and photosynthesis are vital developmental processes of woody plants that determine plant architecture and timber yield. However, the mechanisms underlying these processes are unknown. Here, we report that the Populus transcription factor High Cambium Activity 2 (PdeHCA2) plays a role in the transition from primary to secondary growth, vascular development, and branching. In Populus, PdeHCA2 is expressed in undifferentiated provascular cells during primary growth, in phloem cells during secondary growth, and in leaf veins, which is different from the expression pattern of its homolog in Arabidopsis. Overexpression of PdeHCA2 has pleiotropic effects on shoot and leaf development; overexpression lines showed delayed growth of shoots and leaves, reduced photosynthesis, and abnormal shoot branching. In addition, auxin-, cytokinin-, and photosynthesis-related genes were differentially regulated in these lines. Electrophoretic mobility shift assays and transcriptome analysis indicated that PdeHCA2 directly up-regulates the expression of BRANCHED1 and the MADS-box gene PdeAGL9, which regulate plant architecture, by binding to cis-elements in the promoters of these genes. Taken together, our findings suggest that HCA2 regulates several processes in woody plants including vascular development, photosynthesis, and branching by affecting the proliferation and differentiation of parenchyma cells.
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- Biligen-Gaowa Zhao
- Photosynthesis Research Center, Key Laboratory of Photobiology, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100093, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China
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- Photosynthesis Research Center, Key Laboratory of Photobiology, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100093, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China
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- Photosynthesis Research Center, Key Laboratory of Photobiology, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100093, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China
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- Photosynthesis Research Center, Key Laboratory of Photobiology, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100093, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China
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- The Key Laboratory of Plant Molecular Physiology, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- Photosynthesis Research Center, Key Laboratory of Photobiology, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100093, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China
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- Sino-Australia Plant Cell Wall Research Centre, State Key Laboratory of Subtropical Silviculture, College of Forestry and Biotechnology, Zhejiang A and F University, Hangzhou, 311300, China
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- Sino-Australia Plant Cell Wall Research Centre, State Key Laboratory of Subtropical Silviculture, College of Forestry and Biotechnology, Zhejiang A and F University, Hangzhou, 311300, China
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- Key Laboratory of Xinjiang Phytomedicine Resource and Utilization of Ministry of Education, College of Life Sciences, Shihezi University, Shihezi, 832003, China
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- Photosynthesis Research Center, Key Laboratory of Photobiology, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100093, China.
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China.
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- Photosynthesis Research Center, Key Laboratory of Photobiology, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100093, China.
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China.
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Control of vein-forming, striped gene expression by auxin signaling. BMC Biol 2021; 19:213. [PMID: 34556094 PMCID: PMC8461865 DOI: 10.1186/s12915-021-01143-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/23/2020] [Accepted: 09/03/2021] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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Background Activation of gene expression in striped domains is a key building block of biological patterning, from the recursive formation of veins in plant leaves to that of ribs and vertebrae in our bodies. In animals, gene expression is activated in striped domains by the differential affinity of broadly expressed transcription factors for their target genes and the combinatorial interaction between such target genes. In plants, how gene expression is activated in striped domains is instead unknown. We address this question for the broadly expressed MONOPTEROS (MP) transcription factor and its target gene ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA HOMEOBOX FACTOR8 (ATHB8). Results We find that ATHB8 promotes vein formation and that such vein-forming function depends on both levels of ATHB8 expression and width of ATHB8 expression domains. We further find that ATHB8 expression is activated in striped domains by a combination of (1) activation of ATHB8 expression through binding of peak levels of MP to a low-affinity MP-binding site in the ATHB8 promoter and (2) repression of ATHB8 expression by MP target genes of the AUXIN/INDOLE-3-ACETIC-ACID-INDUCIBLE family. Conclusions Our findings suggest that a common regulatory logic controls activation of gene expression in striped domains in both plants and animals despite the independent evolution of their multicellularity. Supplementary Information The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s12915-021-01143-9.
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Lopez-Anido CB, Vatén A, Smoot NK, Sharma N, Guo V, Gong Y, Anleu Gil MX, Weimer AK, Bergmann DC. Single-cell resolution of lineage trajectories in the Arabidopsis stomatal lineage and developing leaf. Dev Cell 2021; 56:1043-1055.e4. [PMID: 33823130 DOI: 10.1016/j.devcel.2021.03.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 102] [Impact Index Per Article: 34.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/10/2020] [Revised: 01/19/2021] [Accepted: 03/09/2021] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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Dynamic cell identities underlie flexible developmental programs. The stomatal lineage in the Arabidopsis leaf epidermis features asynchronous and indeterminate divisions that can be modulated by environmental cues. The products of the lineage, stomatal guard cells and pavement cells, regulate plant-atmosphere exchanges, and the epidermis as a whole influences overall leaf growth. How flexibility is encoded in development of the stomatal lineage and how cell fates are coordinated in the leaf are open questions. Here, by leveraging single-cell transcriptomics and molecular genetics, we uncovered models of cell differentiation within Arabidopsis leaf tissue. Profiles across leaf tissues identified points of regulatory congruence. In the stomatal lineage, single-cell resolution resolved underlying cell heterogeneity within early stages and provided a fine-grained profile of guard cell differentiation. Through integration of genome-scale datasets and spatiotemporally precise functional manipulations, we also identified an extended role for the transcriptional regulator SPEECHLESS in reinforcing cell fate commitment.
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- Camila B Lopez-Anido
- Department of Biology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305-5020, USA; Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305-5020, USA
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- Department of Biology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305-5020, USA
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- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305-5020, USA
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- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305-5020, USA
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- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305-5020, USA
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- Department of Biology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305-5020, USA
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- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305-5020, USA
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- Department of Biology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305-5020, USA
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- Department of Biology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305-5020, USA; Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305-5020, USA.
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Qu G, Peng D, Yu Z, Chen X, Cheng X, Yang Y, Ye T, Lv Q, Ji W, Deng X, Zhou B. Advances in the role of auxin for transcriptional regulation of lignin biosynthesis. FUNCTIONAL PLANT BIOLOGY : FPB 2021; 48:743-754. [PMID: 33663680 DOI: 10.1071/fp20381] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/11/2020] [Accepted: 02/13/2021] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Lignin is a natural polymer interlaced with cellulose and hemicellulose in secondary cell walls (SCWs). Auxin acts via its signalling transduction to regulate most of plant physiological processes. Lignification responds to auxin signals likewise and affects the development of anther and secondary xylem in plants. In this review, the research advances of AUXIN RESPONSE FACTOR (ARF)-dependent signalling pathways regulating lignin formation are discussed in detail. In an effort to facilitate the understanding of several key regulators in this process, we present a regulatory framework that comprises protein-protein interactions at the top and protein-gene regulation divided into five tiers. This characterises the regulatory roles of auxin in lignin biosynthesis and links auxin signalling transduction to transcriptional cascade of lignin biosynthesis. Our works further point to several of significant problems that need to be resolved in the future to gain a better understanding of the underlying mechanisms through which auxin regulates lignin biosynthesis.
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- Gaoyi Qu
- Faculty of Life Science and Biotechnology of Central South University of Forestry and Technology; 410004, Changsha, China
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- Faculty of Life Science and Biotechnology of Central South University of Forestry and Technology; 410004, Changsha, China; and Huitong National Field Station for Scientific Observation and Research of Chinese Fir Plantation Ecosystem in Hunan Province, Huitong 438107, China; and Forestry Biotechnology Hunan Key Laboratories, Hunan Changsha, 410004, China
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- Faculty of Life Science and Biotechnology of Central South University of Forestry and Technology; 410004, Changsha, China
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- Faculty of Life Science and Biotechnology of Central South University of Forestry and Technology; 410004, Changsha, China
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- Faculty of Life Science and Biotechnology of Central South University of Forestry and Technology; 410004, Changsha, China
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- Faculty of Life Science and Biotechnology of Central South University of Forestry and Technology; 410004, Changsha, China
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- Faculty of Life Science and Biotechnology of Central South University of Forestry and Technology; 410004, Changsha, China
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- Faculty of Life Science and Biotechnology of Central South University of Forestry and Technology; 410004, Changsha, China
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- Faculty of Life Science and Biotechnology of Central South University of Forestry and Technology; 410004, Changsha, China
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- National Engineering Laboratory of Applied Technology for Forestry and Ecology in Southern China, Changsha 410004, Hunan, China
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- Faculty of Life Science and Biotechnology of Central South University of Forestry and Technology; 410004, Changsha, China; and Huitong National Field Station for Scientific Observation and Research of Chinese Fir Plantation Ecosystem in Hunan Province, Huitong 438107, China; and National Engineering Laboratory of Applied Technology for Forestry and Ecology in Southern China, Changsha 410004, Hunan, China; and Forestry Biotechnology Hunan Key Laboratories, Hunan Changsha, 410004, China; and Key Laboratory of Cultivation and Protection for Non-Wood Forest Trees, Ministry of Education, Central South University of Forestry and Technology, 410018, Changsha, China; and Corresponding author.
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Lavania D, Linh NM, Scarpella E. Of Cells, Strands, and Networks: Auxin and the Patterned Formation of the Vascular System. Cold Spring Harb Perspect Biol 2021; 13:cshperspect.a039958. [PMID: 33431582 DOI: 10.1101/cshperspect.a039958] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Throughout plant development, vascular cells continually form from within a population of seemingly equivalent cells. Vascular cells connect end to end to form continuous strands, and vascular strands connect at both or either end to form networks of exquisite complexity and mesmerizing beauty. Here we argue that experimental evidence gained over the past few decades implicates the plant hormone auxin-its production, transport, perception, and response-in all the steps that lead to the patterned formation of the plant vascular system, from the formation of vascular cells to their connection into vascular networks. We emphasize the organizing principles of the cell- and tissue-patterning process, rather than its molecular subtleties. In the picture that emerges, cells compete for an auxin-dependent, cell-polarizing signal; positive feedback between cell polarization and cell-to-cell movement of the polarizing signal leads to gradual selection of cell files; and selected cell files differentiate into vascular strands that drain the polarizing signal from the neighboring cells. Although the logic of the patterning process has become increasingly clear, the molecular details remain blurry; the future challenge will be to bring them into razor-sharp focus.
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- Dhruv Lavania
- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2E9, Canada
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2E9, Canada
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2E9, Canada
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Lopez-Anido CB, Vatén A, Smoot NK, Sharma N, Guo V, Gong Y, Anleu Gil MX, Weimer AK, Bergmann DC. Single-cell resolution of lineage trajectories in the Arabidopsis stomatal lineage and developing leaf. Dev Cell 2021; 56:1043-1055.e4. [PMID: 33823130 DOI: 10.1101/2020.09.08.288498] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/10/2020] [Revised: 01/19/2021] [Accepted: 03/09/2021] [Indexed: 05/22/2023]
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Dynamic cell identities underlie flexible developmental programs. The stomatal lineage in the Arabidopsis leaf epidermis features asynchronous and indeterminate divisions that can be modulated by environmental cues. The products of the lineage, stomatal guard cells and pavement cells, regulate plant-atmosphere exchanges, and the epidermis as a whole influences overall leaf growth. How flexibility is encoded in development of the stomatal lineage and how cell fates are coordinated in the leaf are open questions. Here, by leveraging single-cell transcriptomics and molecular genetics, we uncovered models of cell differentiation within Arabidopsis leaf tissue. Profiles across leaf tissues identified points of regulatory congruence. In the stomatal lineage, single-cell resolution resolved underlying cell heterogeneity within early stages and provided a fine-grained profile of guard cell differentiation. Through integration of genome-scale datasets and spatiotemporally precise functional manipulations, we also identified an extended role for the transcriptional regulator SPEECHLESS in reinforcing cell fate commitment.
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- Camila B Lopez-Anido
- Department of Biology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305-5020, USA; Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305-5020, USA
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- Department of Biology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305-5020, USA
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- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305-5020, USA
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- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305-5020, USA
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- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305-5020, USA
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- Department of Biology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305-5020, USA
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- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305-5020, USA
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- Department of Biology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305-5020, USA
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- Department of Biology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305-5020, USA; Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305-5020, USA.
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Song Y, Yang S, Wang J. In vitro and in vivo activity analysis of poplar CLE dodecapeptides that are most divergent from Arabidopsis counterparts. PLANT SCIENCE : AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PLANT BIOLOGY 2021; 305:110832. [PMID: 33691966 DOI: 10.1016/j.plantsci.2021.110832] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/12/2020] [Revised: 01/20/2021] [Accepted: 01/22/2021] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Intercellular communication mediated by the plant-specific CLAVATA3/ENDOSPERM SURROUNDING REGION (ESR)-related (CLE) family members is one of the fundamental mechanisms coordinating the development of complex bodies of plants. In this work, we chose 8 out of 38 putative CLE dodecapeptides encoded in the genome of P. trichocarpa based on their lowest sequence similarity with Arabidopsis CLE peptides, and investigated how such sequence variations affect their functional characteristics. In group 1, PtCLE16p faithfully retained the AtCLE1-7p activity, while PtCLE49p reversed the root-enhancing effect to an inhibitory one with two extra amino acid substitutions, which might have disrupted the capacity of PtCLE49p to recognize the corresponding receptors. In group 2, PtCLE9p conferred Arabidopsis with retarded root growth and suppressed phloem differentiation in a negative dominant manner just like AtCLE25G6T did. PtCLE9p enhanced the vegetative growth in both basal and aerial rosettes by regulating the expression of AERIAL ROSETTE 1 (ART1) and FRIGIDA (FRI) as well as the downstream FLOWERING LOCUS C (FLC) genes. In group 3, PtCLE34p and PtCLE5p slightly promoted primary root growth, while PtCLE40p revealed CLV3p-like and TDIF activity in root and hypocotyls, respectively. The remaining PtCLE18p in group 4 dramatically disturbed the expression of WOX5 and promoted the development of root hairs by repressing the expression of GLABRA2 (GL2) gene, which encoded a negative regulator of epidermal cells differentiation towards root hairs. In summary, our data indicated that with significant functional conservation and common signaling machinery existing for CLE families of land plants, unique and diverse activities of CLE peptides have evolved to perform specific functions in different plant species.
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- Yawen Song
- School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, China
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- School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, China
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- School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, China.
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Kneuper I, Teale W, Dawson JE, Tsugeki R, Katifori E, Palme K, Ditengou FA. Auxin biosynthesis and cellular efflux act together to regulate leaf vein patterning. JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY 2021; 72:1151-1165. [PMID: 33263754 DOI: 10.1093/jxb/eraa501] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/10/2020] [Accepted: 10/27/2020] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Our current understanding of vein development in leaves is based on canalization of the plant hormone auxin into self-reinforcing streams which determine the sites of vascular cell differentiation. By comparison, how auxin biosynthesis affects leaf vein patterning is less well understood. Here, after observing that inhibiting polar auxin transport rescues the sparse leaf vein phenotype in auxin biosynthesis mutants, we propose that the processes of auxin biosynthesis and cellular auxin efflux work in concert during vein development. By using computational modeling, we show that localized auxin maxima are able to interact with mechanical forces generated by the morphological constraints which are imposed during early primordium development. This interaction is able to explain four fundamental characteristics of midvein morphology in a growing leaf: (i) distal cell division; (ii) coordinated cell elongation; (iii) a midvein positioned in the center of the primordium; and (iv) a midvein which is distally branched. Domains of auxin biosynthetic enzyme expression are not positioned by auxin canalization, as they are observed before auxin efflux proteins polarize. This suggests that the site-specific accumulation of auxin, as regulated by the balanced action of cellular auxin efflux and local auxin biosynthesis, is crucial for leaf vein formation.
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- Irina Kneuper
- Institute of Biology II, Albert-Ludwigs-University of Freiburg, Schänzlestrasse 1, D-79104 Freiburg, Germany
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- Institute of Biology II, Albert-Ludwigs-University of Freiburg, Schänzlestrasse 1, D-79104 Freiburg, Germany
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- Physics of Biological Organization, Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Am Fassberg 17, D-37077 Göttingen, Germany
- Institute of General Electrical Engineering, University of Rostock, Albert-Einstein-Str. 2, D-18059 Rostock, Germany
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- Department of Botany, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8502 Japan
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- Physics of Biological Organization, Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Am Fassberg 17, D-37077 Göttingen, Germany
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
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- Institute of Biology II, Albert-Ludwigs-University of Freiburg, Schänzlestrasse 1, D-79104 Freiburg, Germany
- Center for Biological Systems Analysis, Albert-Ludwigs-University of Freiburg, Habsburgerstrasse 49, D-79104 Freiburg, Germany
- Sino German Joint Research Center for Agricultural Biology, and State Key Laboratory of Crop Biology, College of Life Sciences, Shandong Agricultural University, Tai'an, 271018, China
- BIOSS Center for Biological Signalling Studies, Albert-Ludwigs-University of Freiburg, Schänzlestrasse 18, D-79104 Freiburg, Germany
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- Institute of Biology II, Albert-Ludwigs-University of Freiburg, Schänzlestrasse 1, D-79104 Freiburg, Germany
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Govindaraju P, Verna C, Zhu T, Scarpella E. Vein patterning by tissue-specific auxin transport. Development 2020; 147:dev.187666. [PMID: 32493758 DOI: 10.1242/dev.187666] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/20/2019] [Accepted: 05/27/2020] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Unlike in animals, in plants, vein patterning does not rely on direct cell-cell interaction and cell migration; instead, it depends on the transport of the plant hormone auxin, which in turn depends on the activity of the PIN-FORMED1 (PIN1) auxin transporter. The current hypotheses of vein patterning by auxin transport propose that, in the epidermis of the developing leaf, PIN1-mediated auxin transport converges to peaks of auxin level. From those convergence points of epidermal PIN1 polarity, auxin would be transported in the inner tissues where it would give rise to major veins. Here, we have tested predictions of this hypothesis and have found them unsupported: epidermal PIN1 expression is neither required nor sufficient for auxin transport-dependent vein patterning, whereas inner-tissue PIN1 expression turns out to be both required and sufficient for auxin transport-dependent vein patterning. Our results refute all vein patterning hypotheses based on auxin transport from the epidermis and suggest alternatives for future tests.
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- Priyanka Govindaraju
- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, CW-405 Biological Sciences Building, Edmonton AB T6G 2E9, Canada
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, CW-405 Biological Sciences Building, Edmonton AB T6G 2E9, Canada
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, CW-405 Biological Sciences Building, Edmonton AB T6G 2E9, Canada
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, CW-405 Biological Sciences Building, Edmonton AB T6G 2E9, Canada
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Vayssières A, Mishra P, Roggen A, Neumann U, Ljung K, Albani MC. Vernalization shapes shoot architecture and ensures the maintenance of dormant buds in the perennial Arabis alpina. THE NEW PHYTOLOGIST 2020; 227:99-115. [PMID: 32022273 DOI: 10.1111/nph.16470] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/04/2019] [Accepted: 01/29/2020] [Indexed: 05/11/2023]
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Perennials have a complex shoot architecture with axillary meristems organized in zones of differential bud activity and fate. This includes zones of buds maintained dormant for multiple seasons and used as reservoirs for potential growth in case of damage. The shoot of Arabis alpina, a perennial relative of Arabidopsis thaliana, consists of a zone of dormant buds placed between subapical vegetative and basal flowering branches. This shoot architecture is shaped after exposure to prolonged cold, required for flowering. To understand how vernalization ensures the maintenance of dormant buds, we performed physiological and transcriptome studies, followed the spatiotemporal changes of auxin, and generated transgenic plants. Our results demonstrate that the complex shoot architecture in A. alpina is shaped by its flowering behavior, specifically the initiation of inflorescences during cold treatment and rapid flowering after subsequent exposure to growth-promoting conditions. Dormant buds are already formed before cold treatment. However, dormancy in these buds is enhanced during, and stably maintained after, vernalization by a BRC1-dependent mechanism. Post-vernalization, stable maintenance of dormant buds is correlated with increased auxin response, transport, and endogenous indole-3-acetic acid levels in the stem. Here, we provide a functional link between flowering and the maintenance of dormant buds in perennials.
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- Alice Vayssières
- Institute for Plant Sciences, University of Cologne, Zülpicher Straße 47b, Cologne, 50674, Germany
- Cluster of Excellence on Plant Sciences 'From Complex Traits towards Synthetic Modules', Düsseldorf, 40225, Germany
- Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Carl-von-Linné-Weg 10, Cologne, 50829, Germany
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- Institute for Plant Sciences, University of Cologne, Zülpicher Straße 47b, Cologne, 50674, Germany
- Cluster of Excellence on Plant Sciences 'From Complex Traits towards Synthetic Modules', Düsseldorf, 40225, Germany
- Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Carl-von-Linné-Weg 10, Cologne, 50829, Germany
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- Institute for Plant Sciences, University of Cologne, Zülpicher Straße 47b, Cologne, 50674, Germany
- Cluster of Excellence on Plant Sciences 'From Complex Traits towards Synthetic Modules', Düsseldorf, 40225, Germany
- Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Carl-von-Linné-Weg 10, Cologne, 50829, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Carl-von-Linné-Weg 10, Cologne, 50829, Germany
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- Department of Forest Genetics and Plant Physiology, Umeå Plant Science Centre, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Umeå, 90183, Sweden
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- Institute for Plant Sciences, University of Cologne, Zülpicher Straße 47b, Cologne, 50674, Germany
- Cluster of Excellence on Plant Sciences 'From Complex Traits towards Synthetic Modules', Düsseldorf, 40225, Germany
- Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Carl-von-Linné-Weg 10, Cologne, 50829, Germany
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Amalraj B, Govindaraju P, Krishna A, Lavania D, Linh NM, Ravichandran SJ, Scarpella E. GAL4
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lines for identification and manipulation of cells and tissues in developing Arabidopsis leaves. Dev Dyn 2020; 249:1127-1146. [DOI: 10.1002/dvdy.181] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/17/2020] [Revised: 03/30/2020] [Accepted: 04/11/2020] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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- Brindhi Amalraj
- Department of Biological SciencesUniversity of Alberta Edmonton Alberta Canada
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- Department of Biological SciencesUniversity of Alberta Edmonton Alberta Canada
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- Department of Biological SciencesUniversity of Alberta Edmonton Alberta Canada
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- Department of Biological SciencesUniversity of Alberta Edmonton Alberta Canada
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- Department of Biological SciencesUniversity of Alberta Edmonton Alberta Canada
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Radhakrishnan D, Shanmukhan AP, Kareem A, Aiyaz M, Varapparambathu V, Toms A, Kerstens M, Valsakumar D, Landge AN, Shaji A, Mathew MK, Sawchuk MG, Scarpella E, Krizek BA, Efroni I, Mähönen AP, Willemsen V, Scheres B, Prasad K. A coherent feed-forward loop drives vascular regeneration in damaged aerial organs of plants growing in a normal developmental context. Development 2020; 147:dev185710. [PMID: 32108025 DOI: 10.1242/dev.185710] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/15/2019] [Accepted: 02/17/2020] [Indexed: 03/01/2024]
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Aerial organs of plants, being highly prone to local injuries, require tissue restoration to ensure their survival. However, knowledge of the underlying mechanism is sparse. In this study, we mimicked natural injuries in growing leaves and stems to study the reunion between mechanically disconnected tissues. We show that PLETHORA (PLT) and AINTEGUMENTA (ANT) genes, which encode stem cell-promoting factors, are activated and contribute to vascular regeneration in response to these injuries. PLT proteins bind to and activate the CUC2 promoter. PLT proteins and CUC2 regulate the transcription of the local auxin biosynthesis gene YUC4 in a coherent feed-forward loop, and this process is necessary to drive vascular regeneration. In the absence of this PLT-mediated regeneration response, leaf ground tissue cells can neither acquire the early vascular identity marker ATHB8, nor properly polarise auxin transporters to specify new venation paths. The PLT-CUC2 module is required for vascular regeneration, but is dispensable for midvein formation in leaves. We reveal the mechanisms of vascular regeneration in plants and distinguish between the wound-repair ability of the tissue and its formation during normal development.
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- Dhanya Radhakrishnan
- School of Biology, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Thiruvananthapuram 695551, India
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- School of Biology, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Thiruvananthapuram 695551, India
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- School of Biology, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Thiruvananthapuram 695551, India
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- School of Biology, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Thiruvananthapuram 695551, India
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- School of Biology, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Thiruvananthapuram 695551, India
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- Plant Developmental Biology, Wageningen University Research, Wageningen 6708 PB, The Netherlands
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- School of Biology, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Thiruvananthapuram 695551, India
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- School of Biology, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Thiruvananthapuram 695551, India
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- School of Biology, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Thiruvananthapuram 695551, India
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- School of Biology, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Thiruvananthapuram 695551, India
- National Centre for Biological Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, 15, Bengaluru, 560065, India
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2E9, Canada
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2E9, Canada
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC 29208, USA
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- The Robert H. Smith Institute of Plant Sciences and Genetics in Agriculture, The Hebrew University, Rehovot 76100, Israel
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- Institute of Biotechnology HiLIFE, University of Helsinki, 00014 Helsinki, Finland
- Organismal and Evolutionary Biology Research Programme, Faculty of Biological and Environmental Sciences, Viikki Plant Science Centre, University of Helsinki, 00014 Helsinki, Finland
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- Plant Developmental Biology, Wageningen University Research, Wageningen 6708 PB, The Netherlands
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- Plant Developmental Biology, Wageningen University Research, Wageningen 6708 PB, The Netherlands
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- School of Biology, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Thiruvananthapuram 695551, India
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Verna C, Ravichandran SJ, Sawchuk MG, Linh NM, Scarpella E. Coordination of tissue cell polarity by auxin transport and signaling. eLife 2019; 8:51061. [PMID: 31793881 PMCID: PMC6890459 DOI: 10.7554/elife.51061] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/13/2019] [Accepted: 11/01/2019] [Indexed: 02/02/2023] Open
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Plants coordinate the polarity of hundreds of cells during vein formation, but how they do so is unclear. The prevailing hypothesis proposes that GNOM, a regulator of membrane trafficking, positions PIN-FORMED auxin transporters to the correct side of the plasma membrane; the resulting cell-to-cell, polar transport of auxin would coordinate tissue cell polarity and induce vein formation. Contrary to predictions of the hypothesis, we find that vein formation occurs in the absence of PIN-FORMED or any other intercellular auxin-transporter; that the residual auxin-transport-independent vein-patterning activity relies on auxin signaling; and that a GNOM-dependent signal acts upstream of both auxin transport and signaling to coordinate tissue cell polarity and induce vein formation. Our results reveal synergism between auxin transport and signaling, and their unsuspected control by GNOM in the coordination of tissue cell polarity during vein patterning, one of the most informative expressions of tissue cell polarization in plants. Plants, animals and other living things grow and develop over their lifetimes: for example, oak trees come from acorns and chickens begin their lives as eggs. To achieve these transformations, the cells in those living things must grow, divide and change their shape and other features. Plants and animals specify the directions in which their cells will grow and develop by gathering specific proteins to one side of the cells. This makes one side different from all the other sides, which the cells use as an internal compass that points in one direction. To align their internal compasses, animal cells touch one another and often move around inside the body. Plant cells, on the other hand, are surrounded by a wall that keeps them apart and prevents them from moving around. So how do plant cells align their internal compasses? Scientists have long thought that a protein called GNOM aligns the internal compasses of plant cells. The hypothesis proposes that GNOM gathers another protein, called PIN1, to one side of a cell. PIN1 would then pump a plant hormone known as auxin out of this first cell and, in doing so, would also drain auxin away from the cell on the opposite side. In this second cell, GNOM would then gather PIN1 to the side facing the first cell, and this process would repeat until all the cells' compasses were aligned. To test this hypothesis, Verna et al. combined microscopy with genetic approaches to study how cells' compasses are aligned in the leaves of a plant called Arabidopsis thaliana. The experiments revealed that auxin needs to move from cell-to-cell to align the cells’ compasses. However, contrary to the above hypothesis, this movement of auxin was not sufficient: the cells also needed to be able to detect and respond to the auxin that entered them. Along with controlling how auxin moved between the cells, GNOM also regulated how the cells responded to the auxin. These findings reveal how plants specify which directions their cells grow and develop. In the future, this knowledge may eventually aid efforts to improve crop yields by controlling the growth and development of crop plants.
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- Carla Verna
- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
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Schuetz M, Fidanza M, Mattsson J. Identification of Auxin Response Factor-Encoding Genes Expressed in Distinct Phases of Leaf Vein Development and with Overlapping Functions in Leaf Formation. PLANTS 2019; 8:plants8070242. [PMID: 31340490 PMCID: PMC6681221 DOI: 10.3390/plants8070242] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/01/2019] [Revised: 07/18/2019] [Accepted: 07/19/2019] [Indexed: 01/22/2023]
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Based on mutant phenotypes the MONOPTEROS (MP)/Auxin Response Factor 5 (ARF5) gene acts in several developmental processes including leaf vein development. Since overlapping functions among ARF genes are common, we assessed the related ARF 3-8 and 19 genes for potential overlap in expression during vein development using in-situ hybridization. Like MP/ARF5, ARF3 was expressed in preprocambial and procambial cells. ARF7 was also expressed in procambial cells, close to and during vein differentiation. ARF19 was expressed in differentiating vessel elements. To assess if genes with vein expression have overlapping functions, double mutants were generated. While arf3, 5 and 7 mutants formed leaves normally, double mutant combinations of mp/arf5 with arf3 or arf7 resulted in a breakdown of leaf formation. Instead, novel structures not present in any of the single mutants formed. The results implicate ARF3 and ARF7 in rosette leaf formation and suggest that their functions overlap and act in parallel with MP/ARF5 in this process. The observed vascular expression patterns suggest unique functions (ARF7 and 19) and potentially overlapping functions (ARF3 and 5) in vein development. Since arf3 arf5 double mutants do not form leaves, assessment of their potential combined action in vein development will require the use of conditional mutants.
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- Mathias Schuetz
- Department of Biological Sciences, Simon Fraser University, 8888 University Drive, Burnaby, BC V5A 1S6, Canada
- Department of Botany, The University of British Columbia, 6270 University Boulevard, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4, Canada
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Simon Fraser University, 8888 University Drive, Burnaby, BC V5A 1S6, Canada
- Department of Neurosurgery, Stanford University, 300 Pasteur Dr., Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Simon Fraser University, 8888 University Drive, Burnaby, BC V5A 1S6, Canada.
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Banasiak A, Biedroń M, Dolzblasz A, Berezowski MA. Ontogenetic Changes in Auxin Biosynthesis and Distribution Determine the Organogenic Activity of the Shoot Apical Meristem in pin1 Mutants. Int J Mol Sci 2019; 20:E180. [PMID: 30621327 PMCID: PMC6337202 DOI: 10.3390/ijms20010180] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/19/2018] [Revised: 12/28/2018] [Accepted: 01/02/2019] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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In the shoot apical meristem (SAM) of Arabidopsis, PIN1-dependent polar auxin transport (PAT) regulates two crucial developmental processes: organogenesis and vascular system formation. However, the knockout mutation in the PIN1 gene does not fully inhibit these two processes. Therefore, we investigated a potential source of auxin for organogenesis and vascularization during inflorescence stem development. We analyzed auxin distribution in wild-type (WT) and pin1 mutant plants using a refined protocol of auxin immunolocalization; auxin activity, with the response reporter pDR5:GFP; and expression of auxin biosynthesis genes YUC1 and YUC4. Our results revealed that regardless of the functionality of PIN1-mediated PAT, auxin is present in the SAM and vascular strands. In WT plants, auxin always accumulates in all cells of the SAM, whereas in pin1 mutants, its localization within the SAM changes ontogenetically and is related to changes in the structure of the vascular system, organogenic activity of SAM, and expression levels of YUC1 and YUC4 genes. Our findings indicate that the presence of auxin in the meristem of pin1 mutants is an outcome of at least two PIN1-independent mechanisms: acropetal auxin transport from differentiated tissues with the use of vascular strands and auxin biosynthesis within the SAM.
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- Alicja Banasiak
- Department of Plant Developmental Biology, Institute of Experimental Biology, Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of Wroclaw, Kanonia 6/8, 50-328 Wroclaw, Poland.
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- Department of Plant Developmental Biology, Institute of Experimental Biology, Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of Wroclaw, Kanonia 6/8, 50-328 Wroclaw, Poland.
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- Department of Plant Developmental Biology, Institute of Experimental Biology, Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of Wroclaw, Kanonia 6/8, 50-328 Wroclaw, Poland.
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- Department of Plant Developmental Biology, Institute of Experimental Biology, Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of Wroclaw, Kanonia 6/8, 50-328 Wroclaw, Poland.
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Carabelli M, Possenti M, Sessa G, Ruzza V, Morelli G, Ruberti I. Arabidopsis HD-Zip II proteins regulate the exit from proliferation during leaf development in canopy shade. JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY 2018; 69:5419-5431. [PMID: 30239874 PMCID: PMC6255710 DOI: 10.1093/jxb/ery331] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/28/2018] [Accepted: 09/10/2018] [Indexed: 05/20/2023]
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The shade avoidance response is mainly evident as increased plant elongation at the expense of leaf and root expansion. Despite the advances in understanding the mechanisms underlying shade-induced hypocotyl elongation, little is known about the responses to simulated shade in organs other than the hypocotyl. In Arabidopsis, there is evidence that shade rapidly and transiently reduces the frequency of cell division in young first and second leaf primordia through a non-cell-autonomous mechanism. However, the effects of canopy shade on leaf development are likely to be complex and need to be further investigated. Using combined methods of genetics, cell biology, and molecular biology, we uncovered an effect of prolonged canopy shade on leaf development. We show that persistent shade determines early exit from proliferation in the first and second leaves of Arabidopsis. Furthermore, we demonstrate that the early exit from proliferation in the first and second leaves under simulated shade depends at least in part on the action of the Homeodomain-leucine zipper II (HD-Zip II) transcription factors ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA HOMEOBOX2 (ATHB2) and ATHB4. Finally, we provide evidence that the ATHB2 and ATHB4 proteins work in concert. Together the data contribute new insights on the mechanisms controlling leaf development under canopy shade.
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- Monica Carabelli
- Institute of Molecular Biology and Pathology, National Research Council, Rome, Italy
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- Research Centre for Genomics and Bioinformatics, Council for Agricultural Research and Economics (CREA), Rome, Italy
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- Institute of Molecular Biology and Pathology, National Research Council, Rome, Italy
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- Institute of Molecular Biology and Pathology, National Research Council, Rome, Italy
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- Research Centre for Genomics and Bioinformatics, Council for Agricultural Research and Economics (CREA), Rome, Italy
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- Institute of Molecular Biology and Pathology, National Research Council, Rome, Italy
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Biedroń M, Banasiak A. Auxin-mediated regulation of vascular patterning in Arabidopsis thaliana leaves. PLANT CELL REPORTS 2018; 37:1215-1229. [PMID: 29992374 PMCID: PMC6096608 DOI: 10.1007/s00299-018-2319-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/24/2018] [Accepted: 07/04/2018] [Indexed: 05/02/2023]
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The vascular system develops in response to auxin flow as continuous strands of conducting tissues arranged in regular spatial patterns. However, a mechanism governing their regular and repetitive formation remains to be fully elucidated. A model system for studying the vascular pattern formation is the process of leaf vascularization in Arabidopsis. In this paper, we present current knowledge of important factors and their interactions in this process. Additionally, we propose the sequence of events leading to the emergence of continuous vascular strands and point to significant problems that need to be resolved in the future to gain a better understanding of the regulation of the vascular pattern development.
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- Magdalena Biedroń
- Department of Plant Developmental Biology, Institute of Experimental Biology, University of Wrocław, ul. Kanonia 6/8, 50-328, Wrocław, Poland
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- Department of Plant Developmental Biology, Institute of Experimental Biology, University of Wrocław, ul. Kanonia 6/8, 50-328, Wrocław, Poland.
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Urbancsok J, Bones AM, Kissen R. Benzyl Cyanide Leads to Auxin-Like Effects Through the Action of Nitrilases in Arabidopsis thaliana. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2018; 9:1240. [PMID: 30197652 PMCID: PMC6117430 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2018.01240] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/07/2018] [Accepted: 08/06/2018] [Indexed: 05/19/2023]
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Plants within the Brassicales order generate glucosinolate hydrolysis products that can exert different biological effects on several organisms. Here, we evaluated the physiological effects of one of these compounds, benzyl cyanide (phenylacetonitrile), when exogenously applied on Arabidopsis thaliana. Treatment with benzyl cyanide led to a dose-dependent reduction of primary root length and total biomass. Further morphological changes like elongated hypocotyls, epinastic cotyledons, and increased formation of adventitious roots resembled a severe auxin-overproducer phenotype. The elevated auxin response was confirmed by histochemical staining and gene expression analysis of auxin-responsive genes. Nitriles are converted by specific enzymes, nitrilases (NIT1-3), to their corresponding carboxylic acids. The nitrilase mutants nit1 and nit2 tolerated benzyl cyanide treatments better than the wild type, with nit2 being less resistant than nit1. A NIT2RNAi line suppressing several nitrilases was resistant to all tested benzyl cyanide concentrations. When exposed to phenylacetic acid (PAA) - the corresponding carboxylic acid of benzyl cyanide - wild type and mutant seedlings were, however, equally susceptible and showed a more severe auxin phenotype than upon cyanide treatment. Here, we demonstrate that the auxin-like effects triggered by benzyl cyanide on Arabidopsis are due to its nitrilase-mediated conversion to the natural auxin PAA.
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- Department of Biology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway
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Li X, Yang H, Wang C, Yang S, Wang J. Distinct transgenic effects of poplar TDIF genes on vascular development in Arabidopsis. PLANT CELL REPORTS 2018; 37:799-808. [PMID: 29476245 DOI: 10.1007/s00299-018-2268-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/19/2017] [Accepted: 02/17/2018] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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Poplar CLE genes encoding TDIF motifs differentially regulate vascular cambial cell division and woody tissue organization in transgenic Arabidopsis. In Arabidopsis, CLE41 and CLE44 genes encode the tracheary element differentiation inhibitory factor (TDIF) peptide, which functions as a non-cell autonomous signal to regulate vascular development, and overexpression of AtCLE41/CLE44 generate similar phenotypic defects. In poplar, there are six CLE genes (PtTDIF1-4 and PtTDIF-like1-2) encoding two TDIF peptides (TDIF and TDIF-like peptide), which exhibit nearly same activities when exogenously applied to Arabidopsis seedlings. In this work, for each TDIF peptide, we chose two poplar CLE genes (PtTDIF2 and 3 for TDIF, and PtTDIF-like1-2 for TDIF-like peptide) to compare their in vivo effects in transgenic Arabidopsis. Our results showed that transgenic Arabidopsis lines overexpressing each individual PtTDIF gene exhibited dramatically distinct phenotypes associated with vascular development, demonstrating that TDIF motif is not the only functional determinant after genetic transformation. Moreover, we revealed that overexpressed poplar TDIFs enhanced the proliferation of (pro)cambial cells only in hypocotyls, but not in inflorescence stems by differentially regulating the transcriptional levels of WOX4 and WOX14 in these two tissues.
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- Xin Li
- School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin, 300072, China
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- School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin, 300072, China
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- School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin, 300072, China
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- School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin, 300072, China
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- School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin, 300072, China.
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Ditengou FA, Gomes D, Nziengui H, Kochersperger P, Lasok H, Medeiros V, Paponov IA, Nagy SK, Nádai TV, Mészáros T, Barnabás B, Ditengou BI, Rapp K, Qi L, Li X, Becker C, Li C, Dóczi R, Palme K. Characterization of auxin transporter PIN6 plasma membrane targeting reveals a function for PIN6 in plant bolting. THE NEW PHYTOLOGIST 2018; 217:1610-1624. [PMID: 29218850 DOI: 10.1111/nph.14923] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/13/2017] [Accepted: 10/23/2017] [Indexed: 05/25/2023]
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Auxin gradients are sustained by series of influx and efflux carriers whose subcellular localization is sensitive to both exogenous and endogenous factors. Recently the localization of the Arabidopsis thaliana auxin efflux carrier PIN-FORMED (PIN) 6 was reported to be tissue-specific and regulated through unknown mechanisms. Here, we used genetic, molecular and pharmacological approaches to characterize the molecular mechanism(s) controlling the subcellular localization of PIN6. PIN6 localizes to endomembrane domains in tissues with low PIN6 expression levels such as roots, but localizes at the plasma membrane (PM) in tissues with increased PIN6 expression such as the inflorescence stem and nectary glands. We provide evidence that this dual localization is controlled by PIN6 phosphorylation and demonstrate that PIN6 is phosphorylated by mitogen-activated protein kinases (MAPKs) MPK4 and MPK6. The analysis of transgenic plants expressing PIN6 at PM or in endomembrane domains reveals that PIN6 subcellular localization is critical for Arabidopsis inflorescence stem elongation post-flowering (bolting). In line with a role for PIN6 in plant bolting, inflorescence stems elongate faster in pin6 mutant plants than in wild-type plants. We propose that PIN6 subcellular localization is under the control of developmental signals acting on tissue-specific determinants controlling PIN6-expression levels and PIN6 phosphorylation.
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- Franck Anicet Ditengou
- Institute of Biology II, Faculty of Biology, University of Freiburg, Schänzlestrasse 1, D-79104, Freiburg, Germany
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- Institute of Biology II, Faculty of Biology, University of Freiburg, Schänzlestrasse 1, D-79104, Freiburg, Germany
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- Institute of Biology II, Faculty of Biology, University of Freiburg, Schänzlestrasse 1, D-79104, Freiburg, Germany
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- Institute of Biology II, Faculty of Biology, University of Freiburg, Schänzlestrasse 1, D-79104, Freiburg, Germany
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- Institute of Biology II, Faculty of Biology, University of Freiburg, Schänzlestrasse 1, D-79104, Freiburg, Germany
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- Institute of Biology II, Faculty of Biology, University of Freiburg, Schänzlestrasse 1, D-79104, Freiburg, Germany
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- Institute of Biology II, Faculty of Biology, University of Freiburg, Schänzlestrasse 1, D-79104, Freiburg, Germany
- NIBIO, Norwegian Institute for Bioeconomy Research, Postvegen 213, 4353, Klepp Stasjon, Norway
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- Department of Medical Chemistry, Molecular Biology and Pathobiochemistry, Semmelweis University, Tűzoltó u. 37-47, H-1094, Budapest, Hungary
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- Department of Plant Cell Biology, Centre for Agricultural Research of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Brunszvik u. 2, H-2462, Martonvásár, Hungary
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- Department of Medical Chemistry, Molecular Biology and Pathobiochemistry, Semmelweis University, Tűzoltó u. 37-47, H-1094, Budapest, Hungary
- Research Group for Technical Analytical Chemistry, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Szt. Gellért tér 4, H-1111, Budapest, Hungary
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- Department of Plant Cell Biology, Centre for Agricultural Research of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Brunszvik u. 2, H-2462, Martonvásár, Hungary
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- Institute of Biology II, Faculty of Biology, University of Freiburg, Schänzlestrasse 1, D-79104, Freiburg, Germany
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- Institute of Biology II, Faculty of Biology, University of Freiburg, Schänzlestrasse 1, D-79104, Freiburg, Germany
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- VIB-UGent, Center for Plant Systems Biology, Gent, Belgium
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- Institute of Biology II, Faculty of Biology, University of Freiburg, Schänzlestrasse 1, D-79104, Freiburg, Germany
- State Key Laboratory of Crop Biology, College of Life Sciences, Shandong Agricultural University, Daizong Street 61, Tai'an, 271018, China
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- Institute of Biology II, Faculty of Biology, University of Freiburg, Schänzlestrasse 1, D-79104, Freiburg, Germany
- Gregor Mendel Institute of Molecular Plant Biology, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna Biocenter (VBC), 1030, Vienna, Austria
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- VIB-UGent, Center for Plant Systems Biology, Gent, Belgium
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- Department of Plant Cell Biology, Centre for Agricultural Research of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Brunszvik u. 2, H-2462, Martonvásár, Hungary
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- Institute of Biology II, Faculty of Biology, University of Freiburg, Schänzlestrasse 1, D-79104, Freiburg, Germany
- Gregor Mendel Institute of Molecular Plant Biology, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna Biocenter (VBC), 1030, Vienna, Austria
- Centre for Biological Systems Analysis, Albert-Ludwigs-University of Freiburg, Habsburgerstrasse 49, 79104, Freiburg, Germany
- Freiburg Institute for Advanced Sciences (FRIAS), Albert-Ludwigs-University of Freiburg, Albertstrasse 19, 79104, Freiburg, Germany
- BIOSS Centre for Biological Signalling Studies, Albert-Ludwigs-University of Freiburg, Schänzlestrasse 18, 79104, Freiburg, Germany
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Ruiz Sola MA, Coiro M, Crivelli S, Zeeman SC, Schmidt Kjølner Hansen S, Truernit E. OCTOPUS-LIKE 2, a novel player in Arabidopsis root and vascular development, reveals a key role for OCTOPUS family genes in root metaphloem sieve tube differentiation. THE NEW PHYTOLOGIST 2017; 216:1191-1204. [PMID: 28877333 DOI: 10.1111/nph.14751] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/04/2017] [Accepted: 07/16/2017] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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Protophloem and metaphloem sieve tubes are essential for transporting carbohydrates and signalling molecules towards sink tissues. OCTOPUS (OPS) was previously identified as an important regulator of protophloem differentiation in Arabidopsis roots. Here, we investigated the role of OCTOPUS-LIKE 2 (OPL2), a gene homologous to OPS. OPL2 expression patterns were analysed, and functional equivalence of OPS and OPL2 was tested. Mutant and double mutant phenotypes were investigated. OPS and OPL2 displayed overlapping expression patterns and a high degree of functional overlap. A mutation in OPL2 revealed redundant functions of OPS and OPL2 in developmental processes in which OPS was known to play a role, notably cotyledon vascular patterning and protophloem development. Moreover, we also uncovered redundant roles for OPS and OPL2 in leaf vascular patterning and, most interestingly, metaphloem sieve tube differentiation. Our results reveal a novel OPS-like protein that, together with OPS, is an important regulator of vascular patterning, root growth and phloem development. OPS and OPL2 are the first genes identified that play a role in metaphloem sieve tube differentiation.
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- M Aguila Ruiz Sola
- Department of Biology, Institute of Molecular Plant Biology, ETH Zurich, Universitätsstrasse 2, 8092, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Department of Biology, Institute of Molecular Plant Biology, ETH Zurich, Universitätsstrasse 2, 8092, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Department of Biology, Institute of Molecular Plant Biology, ETH Zurich, Universitätsstrasse 2, 8092, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Department of Biology, Institute of Molecular Plant Biology, ETH Zurich, Universitätsstrasse 2, 8092, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Department of Biology, Institute of Molecular Plant Biology, ETH Zurich, Universitätsstrasse 2, 8092, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Department of Biology, Institute of Molecular Plant Biology, ETH Zurich, Universitätsstrasse 2, 8092, Zurich, Switzerland
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Urbancsok J, Bones AM, Kissen R. Glucosinolate-Derived Isothiocyanates Inhibit Arabidopsis Growth and the Potency Depends on Their Side Chain Structure. Int J Mol Sci 2017; 18:ijms18112372. [PMID: 29117115 PMCID: PMC5713341 DOI: 10.3390/ijms18112372] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/29/2017] [Revised: 11/01/2017] [Accepted: 11/03/2017] [Indexed: 01/21/2023] Open
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Isothiocyanates (ITCs), the biologically important glucosinolate breakdown products, can present health-promoting effects, play an important role in plant defense and affect plant cellular mechanisms. Here, we evaluated the biological effects of ITCs on Arabidopsis thaliana by assessing growth parameters after long-term exposure to low concentrations of aliphatic and aromatic ITCs, ranging from 1 to 1000 µM. Treatment with the aliphatic allylisothiocyanate (allyl-ITC) led to a significant reduction of root length and fresh weight in a dose-dependent manner and affected the formation of lateral roots. To assess the importance of a hormonal crosstalk in the allyl-ITC-mediated growth reduction, the response of auxin and ethylene mutants was investigated, but our results did not allow us to confirm a role for these hormones. Aromatic ITCs generally led to a more severe growth inhibition than the aliphatic allyl-ITC. Interestingly, we observed a correlation between the length of their side chain and the effect these aromatic ITCs caused on Arabidopsis thaliana, with the greatest inhibitory effect seen for 2-phenylethyl-ITC. Root growth recovered when seedlings were removed from exposure to ITCs.
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- János Urbancsok
- Cell, Molecular Biology and Genomics Group, Department of Biology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Høgskoleringen 5, NO-7491 Trondheim, Norway.
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- Cell, Molecular Biology and Genomics Group, Department of Biology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Høgskoleringen 5, NO-7491 Trondheim, Norway.
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- Cell, Molecular Biology and Genomics Group, Department of Biology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Høgskoleringen 5, NO-7491 Trondheim, Norway.
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Scarpella E. The logic of plant vascular patterning. Polarity, continuity and plasticity in the formation of the veins and of their networks. Curr Opin Genet Dev 2017; 45:34-43. [DOI: 10.1016/j.gde.2017.02.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/28/2016] [Revised: 02/10/2017] [Accepted: 02/13/2017] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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Rishmawi L, Bühler J, Jaegle B, Hülskamp M, Koornneef M. Quantitative trait loci controlling leaf venation in Arabidopsis. PLANT, CELL & ENVIRONMENT 2017; 40:1429-1441. [PMID: 28252189 DOI: 10.1111/pce.12938] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/08/2016] [Revised: 01/31/2017] [Accepted: 02/13/2017] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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Leaf veins provide the mechanical support and are responsible for the transport of nutrients and water to the plant. High vein density is a prerequisite for plants to have C4 photosynthesis. We investigated the genetic variation and genetic architecture of leaf venation traits within the species Arabidopsis thaliana using natural variation. Leaf venation traits, including leaf vein density (LVD) were analysed in 66 worldwide accessions and 399 lines of the multi-parent advanced generation intercross population. It was shown that there is no correlation between LVD and photosynthesis parameters within A. thaliana. Association mapping was performed for LVD and identified 16 and 17 putative quantitative trait loci (QTLs) in the multi-parent advanced generation intercross and worldwide sets, respectively. There was no overlap between the identified QTLs suggesting that many genes can affect the traits. In addition, linkage mapping was performed using two biparental recombinant inbred line populations. Combining linkage and association mapping revealed seven candidate genes. For one of the candidate genes, RCI2c, we demonstrated its function in leaf venation patterning.
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- Louai Rishmawi
- Botanical Institute, University of Cologne, Cologne Biocenter, 50674, Cologne, Germany
- Max-Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, 50829, Cologne, Germany
- Universitätsstrasse 1, Cluster of Excellence on Plant Sciences, D-40225, Düsseldorf, Germany
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- Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, IBG-2: Plant Sciences, 52425, Jülich, Germany
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- Botanical Institute, University of Cologne, Cologne Biocenter, 50674, Cologne, Germany
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- Botanical Institute, University of Cologne, Cologne Biocenter, 50674, Cologne, Germany
- Universitätsstrasse 1, Cluster of Excellence on Plant Sciences, D-40225, Düsseldorf, Germany
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- Max-Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, 50829, Cologne, Germany
- Laboratory of Genetics, Wageningen University and Research, 6708 PB, Wageningen, The Netherlands
- Universitätsstrasse 1, Cluster of Excellence on Plant Sciences, D-40225, Düsseldorf, Germany
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Melnyk CW. Connecting the plant vasculature to friend or foe. THE NEW PHYTOLOGIST 2017; 213:1611-1617. [PMID: 27716935 DOI: 10.1111/nph.14218] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/15/2016] [Accepted: 07/13/2016] [Indexed: 05/26/2023]
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Contents 1611 I. 1611 II. 1612 III. 1612 IV. 1614 V. 1614 VI. 1614 VII. 1615 VIII. 1616 1616 References 1616 SUMMARY: The plant vasculature transports water, sugars, hormones, RNAs and proteins. Such critical functions need to be protected from attack by pests and pathogens or from damage by wounding. Plants have developed mechanisms to repair vasculature when such protections fail and to even initiate new vascular connections to tissues supporting symbionts. The developmental phenomena underlying vascular repair and rewiring are therefore critical for horticultural grafting, for plant infection and for mutualist associations with rhizosphere microbes. Despite the biological and economic interest, we are only beginning to understand how plants connect and reconnect their vasculature to a wide variety of organisms. Here, I discuss recent work and future prospects for this emerging field.
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- Charles W Melnyk
- The Sainsbury Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Bateman Street, Cambridge, CB2 1LR, UK
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Vascular tissue, comprising xylem and phloem, is responsible for the transport of water and nutrients throughout the plant body. Such tissue is continually produced from stable populations of stem cells, specifically the procambium during primary growth and the cambium during secondary growth. As the majority of plant biomass is produced by the cambium, there is an obvious demand for an understanding of the genetic mechanisms that control the rate of vascular cell division. Moreover, wood is an industrially important product of the cambium, and research is beginning to uncover similar mechanisms in trees such as poplar. This review focuses upon recent work that has identified the major molecular pathways that regulate procambial and cambial activity.
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- Liam Campbell
- University of Manchester, Michael Smith Building, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PT, UK
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- University of Manchester, Michael Smith Building, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PT, UK
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Melnyk CW. Plant grafting: insights into tissue regeneration. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2016; 4:3-14. [PMID: 28316790 PMCID: PMC5350079 DOI: 10.1002/reg2.71] [Citation(s) in RCA: 81] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/31/2016] [Revised: 09/30/2016] [Accepted: 10/03/2016] [Indexed: 01/21/2023]
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For millennia, people have cut and joined different plants together through a process known as grafting. The severed tissues adhere, the cells divide and the vasculature differentiates through a remarkable process of regeneration between two genetically distinct organisms as they become one. Grafting is becoming increasingly important in horticulture where it provides an efficient means for asexual propagation. Grafting also combines desirable roots and shoots to generate chimeras that are more vigorous, more pathogen resistant and more abiotic stress resistant. Thus, it presents an elegant and efficient way to improve plant productivity in vegetables and trees using traditional techniques. Despite this horticultural importance, we are only beginning to understand how plants regenerate tissues at the graft junction. By understanding grafting better, we can shed light on fundamental regeneration pathways and the basis for self/non‐self recognition. We can also better understand why many plants efficiently graft whereas others cannot, with the goal of improving grafting so as to broaden the range of grafted plants to create even more desirable chimeras. Here, I review the latest findings describing how plants graft and provide insight into future directions in this emerging field.
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- Charles W Melnyk
- The Sainsbury Laboratory University of Cambridge Bateman Street Cambridge CB2 1LR United Kingdom
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Shirakawa M, Ueda H, Shimada T, Hara-Nishimura I. FAMA: A Molecular Link between Stomata and Myrosin Cells. TRENDS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2016; 21:861-871. [PMID: 27477926 DOI: 10.1016/j.tplants.2016.07.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/01/2016] [Revised: 06/24/2016] [Accepted: 07/04/2016] [Indexed: 05/04/2023]
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Plants use sophisticated defense strategies against herbivores, including the myrosinase-glucosinolate system in Brassicales plants. This system sequesters myrosinase in myrosin cells, which are idioblasts in inner leaf tissues, and produces a toxic compound when cells are damaged by herbivores. Although the molecular mechanisms underlying myrosin cell development are largely unknown, recent studies have revealed that two key components, a basic helix-loop-helix (bHLH) transcription factor (FAMA) and vesicle trafficking factors (such as SYNTAXIN OF PLANTS 22), regulate the differentiation and fate determination of myrosin cells. FAMA also functions as a master regulator of guard cell (GC) differentiation. In this review, we discuss how FAMA operates two distinct genetic programs: the generation of myrosin cells in inner plant tissue and GCs in the epidermis.
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- Makoto Shirakawa
- Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8502, Japan
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- Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8502, Japan
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- Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8502, Japan
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Bräutigam A, Gowik U. Photorespiration connects C 3and C 4photosynthesis. JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY 2016; 67:2953-62. [PMID: 26912798 DOI: 10.1093/jxb/erw056] [Citation(s) in RCA: 57] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/09/2023]
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Shirakawa M, Ueda H, Shimada T, Hara-Nishimura I. Myrosin cells are differentiated directly from ground meristem cells and are developmentally independent of the vasculature in Arabidopsis leaves. PLANT SIGNALING & BEHAVIOR 2016; 11:e1150403. [PMID: 26967973 PMCID: PMC4883950 DOI: 10.1080/15592324.2016.1150403] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/08/2023]
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Myrosin cells accumulate myrosinases in their vacuoles to catalyze the production of toxic compounds when tissues are damaged by herbivores. Myrosin cells are positioned adjacent to the abaxial side of the vasculature but their origin is unclear. To determine whether the myrosin cells are differentiated from vascular precursor cells, we generated a transgenic Arabidopsis line that expressed a myrosin cell reporter together with one of 3 vascular precursor cell reporters. The myrosin-positive cells were discontinuously distributed while the vascular precursor-positive cells were continuously distributed. The fluorescent signals of the myosin and vascular reporters did not overlap. Furthermore, the shape of myrosin-positive cells was different from the shape of vascular precursor-positive cells. These results indicate that myosin cells develop independently of the vasculature.
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- Makoto Shirakawa
- Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8502, Japan
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- Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8502, Japan
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- Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8502, Japan
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Caringella MA, Bongers FJ, Sack L. Leaf hydraulic conductance varies with vein anatomy across Arabidopsis thaliana wild-type and leaf vein mutants. PLANT, CELL & ENVIRONMENT 2015; 38:2735-46. [PMID: 26047314 DOI: 10.1111/pce.12584] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/14/2014] [Revised: 05/28/2015] [Accepted: 05/30/2015] [Indexed: 05/22/2023]
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Leaf venation is diverse across plant species and has practical applications from paleobotany to modern agriculture. However, the impact of vein traits on plant performance has not yet been tested in a model system such as Arabidopsis thaliana. Previous studies analysed cotyledons of A. thaliana vein mutants and identified visible differences in their vein systems from the wild type (WT). We measured leaf hydraulic conductance (Kleaf ), vein traits, and xylem and mesophyll anatomy for A. thaliana WT (Col-0) and four vein mutants (dot3-111 and dot3-134, and cvp1-3 and cvp2-1). Mutant true leaves did not possess the qualitative venation anomalies previously shown in the cotyledons, but varied quantitatively in vein traits and leaf anatomy across genotypes. The WT had significantly higher mean Kleaf . Across all genotypes, there was a strong correlation of Kleaf with traits related to hydraulic conductance across the bundle sheath, as influenced by the number and radial diameter of bundle sheath cells and vein length per area. These findings support the hypothesis that vein traits influence Kleaf , indicating the usefulness of this mutant system for testing theory that was primarily established comparatively across species, and supports a strong role for the bundle sheath in influencing Kleaf .
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- Marissa A Caringella
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, USA
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, USA
- Plant Ecophysiology, Institute for Environmental Biology, Utrecht University, 3584 CH, Utrecht, The Netherlands
- Centre for Crop Systems Analysis, Wageningen University, 6708 PB, Wageningen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, USA
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Verna C, Sawchuk MG, Linh NM, Scarpella E. Control of vein network topology by auxin transport. BMC Biol 2015; 13:94. [PMID: 26560462 PMCID: PMC4641347 DOI: 10.1186/s12915-015-0208-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/10/2015] [Accepted: 10/28/2015] [Indexed: 02/08/2023] Open
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Background Tissue networks such as the vascular networks of plant and animal organs transport signals and nutrients in most multicellular organisms. The transport function of tissue networks depends on topological features such as the number of networks’ components and the components’ connectedness; yet what controls tissue network topology is largely unknown, partly because of the difficulties in quantifying the effects of genes on tissue network topology. We address this problem for the vein networks of plant leaves by introducing biologically motivated descriptors of vein network topology; we combine these descriptors with cellular imaging and molecular genetic analysis; and we apply this combination of approaches to leaves of Arabidopsis thaliana that lack function of, overexpress or misexpress combinations of four PIN-FORMED (PIN) genes—PIN1, PIN5, PIN6, and PIN8—which encode transporters of the plant signal auxin and are known to control vein network geometry. Results We find that PIN1 inhibits vein formation and connection, and that PIN6 acts redundantly to PIN1 in these processes; however, the functions of PIN6 in vein formation are nonhomologous to those of PIN1, while the functions of PIN6 in vein connection are homologous to those of PIN1. We further find that PIN8 provides functions redundant and homologous to those of PIN6 in PIN1-dependent inhibition of vein formation, but that PIN8 has no functions in PIN1/PIN6-dependent inhibition of vein connection. Finally, we find that PIN5 promotes vein formation; that all the vein-formation-promoting functions of PIN5 are redundantly inhibited by PIN6 and PIN8; and that these functions of PIN5, PIN6, and PIN8 are independent of PIN1. Conclusions Our results suggest that PIN-mediated auxin transport controls the formation of veins and their connection into networks. Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (doi:10.1186/s12915-015-0208-3) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
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- Carla Verna
- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
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Collins C, Maruthi NM, Jahn CE. CYCD3 D-type cyclins regulate cambial cell proliferation and secondary growth in Arabidopsis. JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY 2015; 66:4595-606. [PMID: 26022252 PMCID: PMC4507761 DOI: 10.1093/jxb/erv218] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/05/2023]
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A major proportion of plant biomass is derived from the activity of the cambium, a lateral meristem responsible for vascular tissue formation and radial organ enlargement in a process termed secondary growth. In contrast to our relatively good understanding of the regulation of primary meristems, remarkably little is known concerning the mechanisms controlling secondary growth, particularly how cambial cell divisions are regulated and integrated with vascular differentiation. A genetic loss-of-function approach was used here to reveal a rate-limiting role for the Arabidopsis CYCLIN D3 (CYCD3) subgroup of cell-cycle genes in the control of cambial cell proliferation and secondary growth, providing conclusive evidence of a direct link between the cell cycle and vascular development. It is shown that all three CYCD3 genes are specifically expressed in the cambium throughout vascular development. Analysis of a triple loss-of-function CYCD3 mutant revealed a requirement for CYCD3 in promoting the cambial cell cycle since mutant stems and hypocotyls showed a marked reduction in diameter linked to reduced mitotic activity in the cambium. Conversely, loss of CYCD3 provoked an increase in xylem cell size and the expression of differentiation markers, showing that CYCD3 is required to restrain the differentiation of xylem precursor cells. Together, our data show that tight control of cambial cell division through developmental- and cell type-specific regulation of CYCD3 is required for normal vascular development, constituting part of a novel mechanism controlling organ growth in higher plants.
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- Carl Collins
- Natural Resources Institute, University of Greenwich, Central Avenue, Chatham Maritime, Kent ME4 4TB, UK Department of Bioagricultural Sciences and Pest Management, Colorado State University, 1177 Campus Delivery, Fort Collins, CO 80523-1177, USA
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- Natural Resources Institute, University of Greenwich, Central Avenue, Chatham Maritime, Kent ME4 4TB, UK
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- Department of Bioagricultural Sciences and Pest Management, Colorado State University, 1177 Campus Delivery, Fort Collins, CO 80523-1177, USA
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Konishi M, Yanagisawa S. Transcriptional repression caused by Dof5.8 is involved in proper vein network formation in Arabidopsis thaliana leaves. JOURNAL OF PLANT RESEARCH 2015; 128:643-652. [PMID: 25794540 DOI: 10.1007/s10265-015-0712-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/01/2014] [Accepted: 02/09/2015] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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Vascular plants have a network of vasculature in their leaves, which supplies water and nutrients and exports photoassimilates to other tissues. The vascular network is patterned during the development of leaf primordia through the induction of provascular differentiation by auxin. Arabidopsis thaliana Dof5.8, encoding a Dof-type transcription factor, is expressed early in provascular cells under the control of the MONOPTEROS transcription factor, also known as auxin response factor 5 (ARF5). Here, we report the effect of overexpressing Dof5.8 in provascular cells on the formation of the vascular network. Overexpression of Dof5.8 inhibited the formation of higher-order veins in cotyledons and leaves, probably through transcriptional repression by Dof5.8. The expression of auxin-associated transcription factor genes, DORNRöSCHEN and SHI-RELATED SEQUENCE 5, was downregulated in the Dof5.8 overexpressors, and overexpression of these genes partially rescued the impaired formation of higher-order veins in Dof5.8-overexpressing lines, suggesting that the overexpression of Dof5.8 modulates the auxin response and leads to impaired vein formation in A. thaliana.
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- Mineko Konishi
- Biotechnology Research Center, The University of Tokyo, Yayoi 1-1-1, Bunkyo-Ku, Tokyo, 113-8657, Japan
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Deb Y, Marti D, Frenz M, Kuhlemeier C, Reinhardt D. Phyllotaxis involves auxin drainage through leaf primordia. Development 2015; 142:1992-2001. [PMID: 25953346 DOI: 10.1242/dev.121244] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/18/2014] [Accepted: 04/07/2015] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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The spatial arrangement of leaves and flowers around the stem, known as phyllotaxis, is controlled by an auxin-dependent reiterative mechanism that leads to regular spacing of the organs and thereby to remarkably precise phyllotactic patterns. The mechanism is based on the active cellular transport of the phytohormone auxin by cellular influx and efflux carriers, such as AUX1 and PIN1. Their important role in phyllotaxis is evident from mutant phenotypes, but their exact roles in space and time are difficult to address due to the strong pleiotropic phenotypes of most mutants in phyllotaxis. Models of phyllotaxis invoke the accumulation of auxin at leaf initials and removal of auxin through their developing vascular strand, the midvein. We have developed a precise microsurgical tool to ablate the midvein at high spatial and temporal resolution in order to test its function in leaf formation and phyllotaxis. Using amplified femtosecond laser pulses, we ablated the internal tissues in young leaf primordia of tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) without damaging the overlying L1 and L2 layers. Our results show that ablation of the future midvein leads to a transient accumulation of auxin in the primordia and to an increase in their width. Phyllotaxis was transiently affected after midvein ablations, but readjusted after two plastochrons. These results indicate that the developing midvein is involved in the basipetal transport of auxin through young primordia, which contributes to phyllotactic spacing and stability.
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- Yamini Deb
- Institute of Plant Science, University of Bern, Bern 3013, Switzerland
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- Institute of Applied Physics, University of Bern, Bern 3012, Switzerland
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- Institute of Applied Physics, University of Bern, Bern 3012, Switzerland
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- Institute of Plant Science, University of Bern, Bern 3013, Switzerland
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- Department of Biology, University of Fribourg, Fribourg 1700, Switzerland
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Jouannet V, Brackmann K, Greb T. (Pro)cambium formation and proliferation: two sides of the same coin? CURRENT OPINION IN PLANT BIOLOGY 2015; 23:54-60. [PMID: 25449727 PMCID: PMC4353845 DOI: 10.1016/j.pbi.2014.10.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/22/2014] [Revised: 10/16/2014] [Accepted: 10/16/2014] [Indexed: 05/17/2023]
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The body of higher plants is usually pervaded by the (pro)cambium, a reticulate system of meristematic cells harboring the potential for producing vascular tissues at critical times and places. The (pro)cambium thereby provides the basis for the differential modulation of long-distance transport capacities and plant body stability. Distinct regulatory networks responsible for the initiation and proliferation of (pro)cambium cells have been identified. However, although a tight interaction between these networks can be expected, connections have been established only sporadically. Here we highlight recent discoveries of how (pro)cambium development is regulated and discuss possible interfaces between networks regulating two processes: (pro)cambium formation and cambium proliferation.
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- Virginie Jouannet
- Gregor Mendel Institute (GMI), Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna Biocenter (VBC), Dr. Bohr-Gasse 3, 1030 Vienna, Austria; Centre for Organismal Studies (COS), Heidelberg University, Im Neuenheimer Feld 230, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany
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- Gregor Mendel Institute (GMI), Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna Biocenter (VBC), Dr. Bohr-Gasse 3, 1030 Vienna, Austria
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- Gregor Mendel Institute (GMI), Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna Biocenter (VBC), Dr. Bohr-Gasse 3, 1030 Vienna, Austria; Centre for Organismal Studies (COS), Heidelberg University, Im Neuenheimer Feld 230, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany.
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Krogan NT, Yin X, Ckurshumova W, Berleth T. Distinct subclades of Aux/IAA genes are direct targets of ARF5/MP transcriptional regulation. THE NEW PHYTOLOGIST 2014; 204:474-483. [PMID: 25145395 DOI: 10.1111/nph.12994] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/06/2014] [Accepted: 07/23/2014] [Indexed: 05/07/2023]
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The regulatory interactions between AUXIN RESPONSE FACTORS (ARFs) and Aux/IAA repressors play a central role in auxin signal transduction. Yet, the systems properties of this regulatory network are not well established. We generated a steroid-inducible ARF5/MONOPTEROS (MP) transgenic background to survey the involvement of this factor in the transcriptional regulation of the entire Aux/IAA family in Arabidopsis thaliana. Target genes of ARF5/MP identified by this approach were confirmed by chromatin immunoprecipitation, in vitro gel retardation assays and gene expression analyses. Our study shows that ARF5/MP is indispensable for the correct regulation of nearly one-half of all Aux/IAA genes, and that these targets coincide with distinct subclades. Further, genetic analyses demonstrate that the protein products of multiple Aux/IAA targets negatively feed back onto ARF5/MP activity. This work indicates that ARF5/MP broadly influences the expression of the Aux/IAA gene family, and suggests that such regulation involves the activation of specific subsets of redundantly functioning factors. These groups of factors may then act together to control various processes within the plant through negative feedback on ARF5. Similar detailed analyses of other Aux/IAA-ARF regulatory modules will be required to fully understand how auxin signal transduction influences virtually every aspect of plant growth and development.
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- Naden T Krogan
- Department of Cell and Systems Biology, University of Toronto, 25 Willcocks Street, Toronto, ON, M5S 3B2, Canada
- Department of Biology, American University, 4400 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC, 20016, USA
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- Department of Cell and Systems Biology, University of Toronto, 25 Willcocks Street, Toronto, ON, M5S 3B2, Canada
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- Department of Cell and Systems Biology, University of Toronto, 25 Willcocks Street, Toronto, ON, M5S 3B2, Canada
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- Department of Cell and Systems Biology, University of Toronto, 25 Willcocks Street, Toronto, ON, M5S 3B2, Canada
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Ckurshumova W, Smirnova T, Marcos D, Zayed Y, Berleth T. Irrepressible MONOPTEROS/ARF5 promotes de novo shoot formation. THE NEW PHYTOLOGIST 2014; 204:556-566. [PMID: 25274430 DOI: 10.1111/nph.13014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 52] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/04/2014] [Accepted: 07/09/2014] [Indexed: 05/29/2023]
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In vitro regeneration of complete organisms from diverse cell types is a spectacular property of plant cells. Despite the great importance of plant regeneration for plant breeding and biotechnology, its molecular basis is still largely unclear and many important crop plants have remained recalcitrant to regeneration. Hormone-exposure protocols to trigger the de novo formation of either roots or shoots from callus tissue demonstrate the importance of auxin and cytokinin signaling pathways, and genetic differences in these pathways may contribute to the highly divergent responsiveness of plant species to regeneration protocols. In this study, we show that signaling through MONOPTEROS (MP)/AUXIN RESPONSE FACTOR 5 is necessary for the formation of shoots from Arabidopsis calli. Most strikingly, an irrepressible variant of MP, MPΔ, is sufficient for promoting de novo shoot formation through pathways involving the genetically downstream functions of SHOOT MERISTEMLESS (STM) and CYTOKININ RESPONSE FACTOR2 (CRF2). We conclude that the MPΔ genotype can promote de novo shoot formation and can be used to probe corresponding signaling pathways.
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- Wenzislava Ckurshumova
- Department of Cell and Systems Biology, University of Toronto, 25 Willcocks Street, Toronto, ON, M5S 3B2, Canada
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- Department of Cell and Systems Biology, University of Toronto, 25 Willcocks Street, Toronto, ON, M5S 3B2, Canada
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- Department of Cell and Systems Biology, University of Toronto, 25 Willcocks Street, Toronto, ON, M5S 3B2, Canada
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- Department of Cell and Systems Biology, University of Toronto, 25 Willcocks Street, Toronto, ON, M5S 3B2, Canada
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- Department of Cell and Systems Biology, University of Toronto, 25 Willcocks Street, Toronto, ON, M5S 3B2, Canada
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Shirakawa M, Ueda H, Shimada T, Kohchi T, Hara-Nishimura I. Myrosin cell development is regulated by endocytosis machinery and PIN1 polarity in leaf primordia of Arabidopsis thaliana. THE PLANT CELL 2014; 26:4448-61. [PMID: 25428982 PMCID: PMC4277224 DOI: 10.1105/tpc.114.131441] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/05/2023]
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Myrosin cells, which accumulate myrosinase to produce toxic compounds when they are ruptured by herbivores, form specifically along leaf veins in Arabidopsis thaliana. However, the mechanism underlying this pattern formation is unknown. Here, we show that myrosin cell development requires the endocytosis-mediated polar localization of the auxin-efflux carrier PIN1 in leaf primordia. Defects in the endocytic/vacuolar SNAREs (syp22 and syp22 vti11) enhanced myrosin cell development. The syp22 phenotype was rescued by expressing SYP22 under the control of the PIN1 promoter. Additionally, myrosin cell development was enhanced either by lacking the activator of endocytic/vacuolar RAB5 GTPase (VPS9A) or by PIN1 promoter-driven expression of a dominant-negative form of RAB5 GTPase (ARA7). By contrast, myrosin cell development was not affected by deficiencies of vacuolar trafficking factors, including the vacuolar sorting receptor VSR1 and the retromer components VPS29 and VPS35, suggesting that endocytic pathway rather than vacuolar trafficking pathway is important for myrosin cell development. The phosphomimic PIN1 variant (PIN1-Asp), which is unable to be polarized, caused myrosin cells to form not only along leaf vein but also in the intervein leaf area. We propose that Brassicales plants might arrange myrosin cells near vascular cells in order to protect the flux of nutrients and water via polar PIN1 localization.
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- Makoto Shirakawa
- Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8502, Japan Graduate School of Biostudies, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8502, Japan
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- Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8502, Japan
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- Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8502, Japan
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- Graduate School of Biostudies, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8502, Japan
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Matos JL, Lau OS, Hachez C, Cruz-Ramírez A, Scheres B, Bergmann DC. Irreversible fate commitment in the Arabidopsis stomatal lineage requires a FAMA and RETINOBLASTOMA-RELATED module. eLife 2014; 3. [PMID: 25303364 PMCID: PMC4225492 DOI: 10.7554/elife.03271] [Citation(s) in RCA: 72] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/04/2014] [Accepted: 10/09/2014] [Indexed: 12/17/2022] Open
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The presumed totipotency of plant cells leads to questions about how specific stem cell lineages and terminal fates could be established. In the Arabidopsis stomatal lineage, a transient self-renewing phase creates precursors that differentiate into one of two epidermal cell types, guard cells or pavement cells. We found that irreversible differentiation of guard cells involves RETINOBLASTOMA-RELATED (RBR) recruitment to regulatory regions of master regulators of stomatal initiation, facilitated through interaction with a terminal stomatal lineage transcription factor, FAMA. Disrupting physical interactions between FAMA and RBR preferentially reveals the role of RBR in enforcing fate commitment over its role in cell-cycle control in this developmental context. Analysis of the phenotypes linked to the modulation of FAMA and RBR sheds new light on the way iterative divisions and terminal differentiation are coordinately regulated in a plant stem-cell lineage. DOI:http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.03271.001 Stem cells in animals and plants help to make and replenish the tissues of the body by dividing and becoming specialized types of cells. Once specialized for a certain function, it is important that a cell keeps that function. In plant leaves, one type of stem cell makes two different types of specialized cells: pavement cells and stomatal guard cells. Pavement cells lock together to form a waterproof barrier to the outside, while guard cells surround the small pores that open and close to allow the plant to exchange water, oxygen and carbon dioxide with the atmosphere. Once a cell becomes a pavement cell or a guard cell, it does not change its identity again. However, if a single cell is removed from a plant, it can revert to a stem cell and a whole new plant can be grown from it. This poses the question of how, in intact plants, specialized cells like pavement cells and guard cells are prevented from reverting to stem cells. In Arabidopsis thaliana, a small flowering plant that is widely used as a model organism in research, a protein called FAMA is responsible for controlling a set of genes that turn stem cells into guard cells. Matos et al. have now found that FAMA needs to bind to another protein called RBR to control this process. It seems that these two proteins make the transition from stem cell to guard cell permanent by changing the structure of DNA in regions that control stem cell genes. RBR is similar to a human protein called Retinoblastoma that helps prevent tumors and regulate stem cells, but how it actually performs these functions in humans is still debated. Because stem cells and guard cells are displayed on the surface of plant leaves and leave behind clues of their past, Matos et al. were able to watch stem cells grow up to be mature guard cells. When the partnership between FAMA and RBR was broken, it was possible to watch those same guard cells revert backwards into stem cells. Seeing development ‘rewind’ could provide useful insights into the way in which cell identity is controlled in both plants and animals. DOI:http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.03271.002
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- Juliana L Matos
- Department of Biology, Stanford University, Stanford, United States
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- Department of Biology, Stanford University, Stanford, United States
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- Department of Biology, Stanford University, Stanford, United States
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- Department of Molecular Genetics, Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands
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Shirakawa M, Ueda H, Nagano AJ, Shimada T, Kohchi T, Hara-Nishimura I. FAMA is an essential component for the differentiation of two distinct cell types, myrosin cells and guard cells, in Arabidopsis. THE PLANT CELL 2014; 26:4039-52. [PMID: 25304202 PMCID: PMC4247577 DOI: 10.1105/tpc.114.129874] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/06/2023]
Abstract
Brassicales plants, including Arabidopsis thaliana, have an ingenious two-compartment defense system, which sequesters myrosinase from the substrate glucosinolate and produces a toxic compound when cells are damaged by herbivores. Myrosinase is stored in vacuoles of idioblast myrosin cells. The molecular mechanism that regulates myrosin cell development remains elusive. Here, we identify the basic helix-loop-helix transcription factor FAMA as an essential component for myrosin cell development along Arabidopsis leaf veins. FAMA is known as a regulator of stomatal development. We detected FAMA expression in myrosin cell precursors in leaf primordia in addition to stomatal lineage cells. FAMA deficiency caused defects in myrosin cell development and in the biosynthesis of myrosinases THIOGLUCOSIDE GLUCOHYDROLASE1 (TGG1) and TGG2. Conversely, ectopic FAMA expression conferred myrosin cell characteristics to hypocotyl and root cells, both of which normally lack myrosin cells. The FAMA interactors ICE1/SCREAM and its closest paralog SCREAM2/ICE2 were essential for myrosin cell development. DNA microarray analysis identified 32 candidate genes involved in myrosin cell development under the control of FAMA. This study provides a common regulatory pathway that determines two distinct cell types in leaves: epidermal guard cells and inner-tissue myrosin cells.
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Affiliation(s)
- Makoto Shirakawa
- Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8502, Japan Graduate School of Biostudies, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8502, Japan
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- Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8502, Japan
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- Center for Ecological Research, Kyoto University, Otsu, Shiga 520-2113, Japan PRESTO, Japan Science and Technology Agency, Kawaguchi, Saitama 332-0012, Japan
| | - Tomoo Shimada
- Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8502, Japan
| | - Takayuki Kohchi
- Graduate School of Biostudies, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8502, Japan
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