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Shoot circumnutation and winding movements require gravisensing cells.

Daisuke Kitazawa1, Yasuko Hatakeda, Motoshi Kamada

  • 1Graduate School of Life Sciences, Tohoku University, 2-1-1 Katahira, Aoba-ku, Sendai 980-8577, Japan.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
|December 13, 2005
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Plant circumnutation and winding movements are crucial for survival. The Japanese morning glory

Area of Science:

  • Plant biology
  • Developmental biology
  • Genetics

Background:

  • Circumnutation and winding are essential plant growth movements.
  • Molecular mechanisms underlying these movements are not fully understood.
  • A Japanese morning glory mutant (weeping) exhibits defects in both circumnutation and winding.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the role of morning glory SCARECROW (PnSCR) in the weeping mutant's phenotype.
  • To determine if PnSCR is involved in plant circumnutation and winding responses.

Main Methods:

  • Genetic analysis of the weeping mutant in Japanese morning glory (Pharbitis nil).
  • Complementation tests by introducing PnSCR into Arabidopsis scr mutants.
  • Analysis of endodermal cell differentiation and shoot gravitropism.

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Main Results:

  • The weeping mutant PnSCR has an amino acid insertion in the VHIID motif, causing abnormal endodermal differentiation.
  • Wild-type PnSCR, but not the weeping mutant version, rescued the gravitropism and circumnutation defects in Arabidopsis scr mutants.
  • The PnSCR mutation is directly responsible for the weeping phenotype.

Conclusions:

  • Gravisensing endodermal cells are critical for shoot circumnutation and winding.
  • PnSCR plays a vital role in regulating these plant growth movements.
  • The study elucidates the molecular basis of circumnutation and winding defects in the weeping mutant.