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Cytokinin interplay with ethylene, auxin and glucose signaling controls Arabidopsis seedling root directional growth

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Title Cytokinin interplay with ethylene, auxin and glucose signaling controls Arabidopsis seedling root directional growth
 
Creator Kushwah, Sunita
Jones, Alan M.
Laxmi, Ashverya
 
Subject Arabidopsis
Cytokinin
Ethylene
Auxin
Glucose
Root Directional Growth
 
Description Optimal root architecture is established by multiple intrinsic (e.g. hormones) and extrinsic (e.g. gravity and touch) signals and is established, in part, by directed root growth. We show that asymmetrical exposure of cytokinin (CK) at the root tip in Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana) promotes cell elongation that is potentiated by glucose in a hexokinase-influenced, G protein-independent manner. This mode of CK signaling requires the CK receptor, ARABIDOPSIS HISTIDINE KINASE4 and, at a minimum, its cognate type B ARABIDOPSIS RESPONSE REGULATORS ARR1, ARR10, and ARR11 for full responsiveness, while type A response regulators act redundantly to attenuate this CK response. Ethylene signaling through the ethylene receptor ETHYLENE RESISTANT1 and its downstream signaling element ETHYLENE INSENSITIVE2 are required for CK-induced root cell elongation. Negative and positive feedback loops are reinforced by CK regulation of the expression of the genes encoding these elements in both the CK and ethylene signaling pathways. Auxin transport facilitated by PIN-FORMED2 as well as auxin signaling through control of the steady-state level of transcriptional repressors INDOLE-3-ACETIC ACID7 (IAA7), IAA14, and IAA17 via TRANSPORT INHIBITOR RESPONSE1/AUXIN SIGNALING F-BOX PROTEIN are involved in CK-induced root cell elongation. This action lies downstream of ethylene and CK induction. Intrinsic signaling in this response operates independently of the extrinsic signal touch, although actin filament organization, which is important in the touch response, may be important for this response, since latrunculin B can induce similar growth. This root growth response may have adaptive significance, since CK responsiveness is inversely related to root coiling and waving, two root behaviors known to be important for fitness.
 
Date 2014-04-29T05:53:34Z
2014-04-29T05:53:34Z
2011
3 June 2011
 
Type Article
 
Identifier Plant Physiol., 156(4): 1851-1866
http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/199
 
Language en
 
Publisher Am. Soc. of Plant Biologists