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Lateral Root Inducible System in Arabidopsis and Maize
Published on: January 14, 2016
Complementary roles for auxin and auxin signalling revealed by reverse engineering lateral root stable prebranch site
Joana Santos Teixeira1, Thea van den Berg1, Kirsten Ten Tusscher1
1Computational Developmental Biology Group, Faculty of Science, Utrecht University, Utrecht 3584 CH, The Netherlands.
Abstract:
Priming is the process through which periodic elevations in auxin signalling prepattern future sites for lateral root formation, called prebranch sites. Thus far, the extent to which elevations in auxin concentration and/or auxin signalling are required for priming and prebranch site formation has remained a matter of debate. Recently, we discovered a reflux-and-growth mechanism for priming generating periodic elevations in auxin concentration that subsequently dissipate. Here, we reverse engineer a mechanism for prebranch site formation that translates these transient elevations into a persistent increase in auxin signalling, resolving the prior debate into a two-step process of auxin concentration-mediated initial signal and auxin signalling capacity-mediated memorization. A crucial aspect of the prebranch site formation mechanism is its activation in response to time-integrated rather than instantaneous auxin signalling. The proposed mechanism is demonstrated to be consistent with prebranch site auxin signalling dynamics, lateral inhibition, and symmetry-breaking mechanisms and perturbations in auxin homeostasis.
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