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Role of PHABULOSA and PHAVOLUTA in determining radial patterning in shoots

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  • Jane R. McConnell

    (Department of Genetics
    Program in Molecular and Cellular Biology
    Carnegie Institute of Washington)

  • John Emery

    (Section of Plant Biology, University of California–Davis)

  • Yuval Eshed

    (Section of Plant Biology, University of California–Davis)

  • Ning Bao

    (Department of Genetics
    University of Wisconsin–Madison)

  • John Bowman

    (Section of Plant Biology, University of California–Davis)

  • M. Kathryn Barton

    (Department of Genetics)

Abstract

The upper side of the angiosperm leaf is specialized for efficient capture of sunlight whereas the lower side is specialized for gas exchange. In Arabidopsis, the establishment of polarity in the leaf probably requires the generation and perception of positional information along the radial (adaxial versus abaxial or central versus peripheral) dimension of the plant. This is because the future upper (adaxial) side of the leaf develops from cells closer to the centre of the shoot, whereas the future under (abaxial) side develops from cells located more peripherally. Here we implicate the Arabidopsis PHABULOSA and PHAVOLUTA genes in the perception of radial positional information in the leaf primordium. Dominant phabulosa (phb)1 and phavoluta (phv) mutations cause a dramatic transformation of abaxial leaf fates into adaxial leaf fates. They do so by altering the predicted sterol/lipid-binding domains of ATHB14 and ATHB9, proteins of previously unknown function that also contain DNA-binding motifs. This change probably renders the protein constitutively active, implicating this domain as a central regulator of protein function and the PHB and PHV proteins as receptors for an adaxializing signal.

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  • Jane R. McConnell & John Emery & Yuval Eshed & Ning Bao & John Bowman & M. Kathryn Barton, 2001. "Role of PHABULOSA and PHAVOLUTA in determining radial patterning in shoots," Nature, Nature, vol. 411(6838), pages 709-713, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:411:y:2001:i:6838:d:10.1038_35079635
    DOI: 10.1038/35079635
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    1. David J Hearn, 2019. "Turing-like mechanism in a stochastic reaction-diffusion model recreates three dimensional vascular patterning of plant stems," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 14(7), pages 1-24, July.
    2. Mitchell P Levesque & Teva Vernoux & Wolfgang Busch & Hongchang Cui & Jean Y Wang & Ikram Blilou & Hala Hassan & Keiji Nakajima & Noritaka Matsumoto & Jan U Lohmann & Ben Scheres & Philip N Benfey, 2006. "Whole-Genome Analysis of the SHORT-ROOT Developmental Pathway in Arabidopsis," PLOS Biology, Public Library of Science, vol. 4(5), pages 1-1, May.

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