Genetic control of branching in Arabidopsis and tomato

Current Opinion in Plant Biology

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 51-55

  Schmitz, Gregor ^a   Theres, Klaus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ORGANOGENESIS; PLANT GENETICS; TOMATO;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM;

EID: 0033083355     PISSN: 13695266     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1369-5266(99)80010-7     Document Type: Article

References (39)

1. Steeves TA, Sussex IM: Organogenesis in the shoot: determination of leaves and branches. In Patterns in Plant Development, 2nd edn. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press; 1989:124-146.
2. Grbic V, Bleecker AB An altered body plan is conferred on Arabidopsis plants carrying dominant alleles of two genes. Development. 122:1996;2395-2403.
3. Esau K Anatomy of Seed Plants. 1977;John Wiley and Sons, New York.
4. Cline MG Concepts and terminology of apical dominance. Am J Bot. 84:1997;1064-1069.
5. Schultz EA, Haughn GW LEAFY, a homeotic gene that regulates inflorescence development in Arabidopsis. Plant Cell. 3:1991;771-781.
6. Hempel FD, Feldman LJ Bi-directional inflorescence development in Arabidopsis thaliana: acropetal initiation of flowers and basipetal initiation of paraclades. Planta. 192:1994;276-286.
7. Alvarez J, Guli CL, Xiang-Hua Y, Smyth DR terminal flower: a gene affecting inflorescence development in Arabidopsis thaliana. Plant J. 2:1992;103-116.
8. Talbert PB, Adler HT, Paris DW, Comai L The REVOLUTA gene is necessary for apical meristem development and for limiting cell divisions in the leaves and stems of Arabidopsis thaliana. Development. 121:1995;2723-2735.
9. Picken AJF, Stewart K, Klapwijk D Germination and vegetative development. The Tomato Crop. 1986;111-166 Chapman and Hall, London.
10. Sawhney VK, Greyson RI On the initiation of the inflorescence and floral organs in tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum). Can J Bot. 50:1984;1493-1495.
11. Malayer JC, Guard AT A comparative developmental study of the mutant side-shootless and normal tomato plants. Am J Bot. 51:1964;140-143.
12. Tucker DJ Hormonal regulation of lateral bud outgrowth in the tomato. Plant Sci Lett. 8:1977;105-111.
13. Pierik RLM, Dieleman JA, Heuvelink E Flowering of tomato in vivo and in vitro in relation to the original position of the axillary bud on the main axis. Sci Hort. 59:1994;55-60.
14. Atherton JG, Harris GP Flowering. The Tomato Crop. 1986;167-200 Chapman and Hall, London.
15. Allen KD, Sussex IM Falsiflora and anantha control early stages of floral meristem development in tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum Mill.). Planta. 200:1996;254-264.
16. Napoli CA, Ruehle J New mutations affecting meristem growth and potential in Petunia hybrida Vilm. J Hered. 87:1996;371-377.
17. Souer E, van der Krol A, Kloos D, Spelt C, Bliek M, Mol J, Koes R Genetic control of branching pattern and floral identity during Petunia inflorescence development. Development. 125:1998;733-742.
18. Snow M, Snow R The determination of axillary buds. New Phytol. 41:1942;13-22.
19. McConnell JR, Barton MK Leaf polarity and meristem formation in Arabidopsis. Development. 125:1998;2935-2942. In this paper, a mutant is described that shows a strong adaxialization of the leaf blade. Mutant plants form additional axillary meristems on the underside of the leaf. The authors question the detached meristem concept and propose a new model for axillary meristem formation.
20. Irish VF, Sussex IM A fate map of the Arabidopsis embryonic shoot apical meristem. Development. 115:1992;745-753.
21. Janssen BJ, Lund L, Sinha N Overexpression of a homeobox gene, LeT6, reveals indeterminate features in the tomato compound leaf. Plant Physiol. 117:1998;771-786.
22. Sossountzov L, Maldiney R, Sotta B, Sabbagh I, Habricot Y, Bonne M, Miginiac E Immunocytochemical localization of cytokinins in Craigella tomato and a sideshootless mutant. Planta. 175:1988;291-304.
23. Williams W The effect of selection on the manifold expression of the 'suppressed lateral' gene in the tomato. Heredity. 14:1960;285-296.
24. Tucker DJ Endogenous growth regulators in relation to side shoot development in the tomato. New Phytol. 77:1976;561-568.
25. Schumacher K, Schmitt T, Rossberg M, Schmitz G, Theres K The Lateral suppressor gene of tomato encodes a new member of the VHIID protein family. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA. 1999;. in press. The cloning of a novel member of the VHIID domain genes that specifically regulates the formation of lateral meristems and petals in tomato is described. The hormonal imbalances in the ls mutant and the sequence similarities of the Ls gene to known inhibitors of GA signalling indicate that the formation of axillary meristems may be controlled by plant hormones.
26. Peng J, Carol P, Richards DE, King KE, Cowling RJ, Murphy GP, Harberd NP The Arabidopsis GAI gene defines a signaling pathway that negatively regulates gibberellin responses. Genes Dev. 11:1997;3194-3205.
27. Silverstone AL, Ciampaglio CN, Sun T-P The Arabidopsis RGA gene encodes a transcriptional regulator repressing the gibberellin signal transduction pathway. Plant Cell. 10:1998;155-169.
28. Rick CM, Butler L Cytogenetics of the tomato. Adv Genet. 8:1956;267-382.
29. Stubbe H Mutanten der Kulturtomate Lycopersicon esculentum Miller III. [Title translation: Mutants of the cultured tomato Lycopersicon esculentum Miller III.]. Kulturpflanze. 7:1959;82-112.
30. Stubbe H Mutanten der Kulturtomate Lycopersicon esculentum Miller V. [Title translation: Mutants of the cultured tomato Lycopersicon esculentum Miller V.]. Kulturpflanze. 12:1964;121-152.
31. Mapelli S, Kinet JM Plant growth regulator and graft control of axillary bud formation and development in the TO-2 mutant tomato. J Plant Growth Regul. 11:1992;385-390.
32. Tucker DJ Apical dominance in the tomato: some further observations on isogenic lines showing varying degrees of side-shoot development. Ann Bot. 43:1979;571-577.
33. Shannon S, Meeks-Wagner DR A mutation in the Arabidopsis TFL1 gene affects inflorescence meristem development. Plant Cell. 3:1991;877-892.
34. Ratcliffe OJ, Amaya I, Vincent CA, Rothstein S, Carpenter R, Coen ES, Bradley DJ A common mechanism controls the life cycle and architecture of plants. Development. 125:1998;1609-1615. Overexpression of the Arabidopsis TFL1 gene demonstrates that this gene regulates not only the length of the infloral phase, but also the length of other phases of shoot development. The authors show that the length of the different developmental phases determines, to a large extent, the growth habit of a plant.
35. Schultz EA, Haughn GW Genetic analysis of the floral initiation process (FLIP) in Arabidopsis. Development. 119:1993;745-765.
36. Pnueli L, Carmel-Goren L, Hareven D, Gutfinger T, Alvarez J, Ganal M, Zamir D, Lifschitz E The SELF-PRUNING gene of tomato regulates vegetative to reproductive switching of sympodial meristems and is the ortholog of CEN and TFL1. Development. 125:1998;1979-1989. The tomato Self-pruning gene has been cloned and proved to be homologous to the Antirrhinum CEN and the Arabidopsis TFL1 gene. The fact that the sp mutant shows a progressive reduction of the sympodial units but no inflorescence phenotype is explained by the nature of the sympodial inflorescence, with the main axes terminating after the formation of only one flower. Overexpression of the Sp and CEN cDNAs in tomato results in partial transformation of flowers to leaves and, in an anantha background, to a lengthening of the sympodial units.
37. Bradley D, Ratcliffe O, Vincent C, Carpenter R, Coen E Inflorescence commitment and architecture in Arabidopsis. Science. 275:1997;80-83. The Terminal Flower 1 gene was isolated using a probe of the Antirrhinum Centroradialis gene and shown to be the Arabidopsis homologue. A correlation between induction of flowering and the expression of TFL1 was shown.
38. Ohshima S, Murata M, Sakamoto W, Ogura Y, Motoyoshi F Cloning and molecular analysis of the Arabidopsis gene Terminal Flower 1. Mol Gen Genet. 254:1997;186-194.
39. Bradley D, Carpenter R, Copsey L, Coral V, Rothstein S, Coen E Control of inflorescence architecture in Antirrhinum. Nature. 379:1996;791-797.