Development of the root pole and cell patterning in Arabidopsis roots

Current Opinion in Genetics and Development

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 405-409

  Costa, Silvia ^a   Dolan, Liam ^a  

^a JOHN INNES CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUXIN; PLANT DNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EPIDERMIS CELL; NONHUMAN; PLANT GROWTH; PLANT ROOT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

ARABIDOPSIS;

EID: 0033949891     PISSN: 0959437X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0959-437X(00)00104-0     Document Type: Review

References (33)

1. Scheres B., Wolkenfelt H., Willemsen V., Terlouw M., Lawson E., Dean C., Weisbeek P. Embryonic origin of the Arabidopsis primary root and root meristem initials. Development. 120:1994;2475-2487.
2. Bennett M.J., Marchant A., May S.T., Swarup R. Going the distance with auxin: unravelling the molecular basis of auxin transport. Phil Trans R Soc London (B). 353:1998;1511-1515.
3. Gälweiler L., Guan C., Müller A., Wisman E., Mendgen K., Yephremov A., Palme K. Regulation of polar auxin transport by AtPIN1 in Arabidopsis vascular tissue. Science. 282:1998;2226-2229.
4. Müller A., Guan C., Gälweiler L., Tänzler P., Huijser P., Marchant A., Parry G., Bennett M., Wisman E., Palme K. AtPIN2 defines a locus of Arabidopsis for root gravitropism control. EMBO J. 17:1998;6903-6911.
5. Luschnig C., Gaxiola R.A., Grisafi P., Fink G.R. EIR1, a root-specific protein involved in auxin transport, is required for gravitropism in Arabidopsis thaliana. Genes Dev. 12:1998;2175-2187.
6. Chen R., Hilson P., Sedbrook J., Rosen E., Caspar T., Masson P.H. The Arabidopsis thaliana AGRAVITROPIC 1 gene encodes a component of the polar-auxin-transport efflux carrier. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA. 95:1998;15112-15117.
7. Bennett M.J., Marchant A., Green H.G., May S.T., Ward S.P., Millner P.A., Walker A.R., Schulz B., Feldmann K.A. Arabidopsis AUX1 gene: a permease-like regulator of root gravitropism. Science. 273:1996;948-950.
8. Marchant A., Kargul J., May S.T., Muller P., Delbarre A., Perrot-Rechenmann C., Bennett M.J. AUX1 regulates root gravitropism in Arabidopsis by facilitating auxin uptake within root apical tissues. EMBO J. 18:1999;2066-2073.
9. Leyser O., Berleth T. A molecular basis for auxin action. Semin Cell Dev Biol. 10:1999;131-137.
10. Steinmann T., Geldner N., Grebe M., Mangold S., Jackson C.L., Paris S., Gälweiler L., Palme K., Jürgens G. Coordinated polar localization of auxin efflux carrier PIN1 by GNOM ARF GEF. Science. 286:1999;316-318. The authors of this paper describe the polar localisation of PIN1 protein in developing embryos and show how such localisation depends on the product of the GN gene - explaining the 'rootless' phenotype of plants homozygous for the gn mutation.
11. Mayer U., Büttner G., Jürgens G. Apical-basal pattern formation in the Arabidopsis embryo: studies on the role of GNOM gene. Development. 117:1993;149-162.
12. Berleth T., Jürgens G. The role of the monopteros gene in organising the basal body region of the Arabidopsis embryo. Development. 118:1993;575-578.
13. Przemeck G.K.H., Mattsson J., Hardtke C.S., Sung Z.R., Berleth T. Studies on the role of the Arabidopsis gene MONOPTEROS in vascular development and plant cell axialization. Planta. 200:1996;229-237.
14. Hardtke C.S., Berleth T. The Arabidopsis gene MONOPTEROS encodes a transcription factor mediating embryo axis formation and vascular development. EMBO J. 17:1998;1405-1411.
15. Ulmasov T., Hagen G., Guilfoyle T.J. ARF1, a transcription factor that binds to auxin response elements. Science. 276:1997;1865-1868.
16. Hamann T., Mayer U., Jürgens G. The auxin-insensitive bodenlos mutation affects primary root formation and apical-basal patterning in the Arabidopsis embryo. Development. 126:1999;1387-1395.
17. Leyser H.M., Lincoln C.A., Timpte C.A., Lammer D., Turner J., Estelle M. Arabidopsis auxin-resistant gene AXR1 encodes a protein related to ubiquitin-activation enzyme E1. Nature. 364:1993;161-164.
18. Sabatini S., Beis D., Wolkenfelt H., Murfett J., Guilfoyle T., Malamy J., Benfey P., Leyser O., Bechtold N., Weisbeek P., Scheres B. An auxin-dependent distal organizer of pattern and polarity in the Arabidopsis root. Cell. 99:1999;463-472.
19. Dolan L., Duckett C., Grierson C., Linstead P., Schneider K., Lawson E., Dean C., Poething S., Roberts K. Clonal relation and patterning in the root epidermis of Arabidopsis. Development. 120:1994;2465-2474.
20. Galway M.E., Masucci J.D., Lloyd A.M., Walbot V., Davis R.W., Schiefelbein J.W. The TTG gene is required to specify epidermal cell fate and cell patterning in the Arabidopsis root. Dev Biol. 166:1994;740-754.
21. Berger F., Haseloff J., Schiefelbein J., Dolan L. Positional information in the root epidermis is defined during embryogenesis and acts in domains with strict boundaries. Curr Biol. 8:1998;421-430.
22. Masucci J.D., Rerie W.G., Foreman D.R., Zhang M., Galway M.E., Marks M.D., Schiefelbein J.W. The homeobox gene GLABRA2 is required for position-dependent cell differentation in the root epidermis of Arabidopsis thaliana. Development. 122:1996;1253-1260.
23. Di Cristina M., Sessa G., Dolan L., Linstead P., Baima S., Ruberti I., Morelli G. The Arabidopsis Athb-10 (GLABRA2) is an HD-Zip protein required for regulation of root hair development. Plant J. 10:1996;393-402.
24. Lee M.M., Schiefelbein J. WEREWOLF, a MYB-related protein in Arabidopsis, is a positional-dependent regulator of epidermal cell patterning. Cell. 99:1999;473-483. The authors describe the phenotypic characterisation of plants homozygous for the wer mutation and the cloning of the corresponding gene. WER encodes a MYB-related protein that is required for the development of non-hair cells in the root epidermis and is required for GL2 transcription.
25. Hung C.Y., Lin Y., Zhang M., Pollock S., Marks M.D., Schiefelbein J.W. A common position-dependent mechanism controls cell-type patterning and GLABRA2 regulation in the root and hypocotyl epidermis of Arabidopsis. Plant Physiol. 117:1998;73-84.
26. Wada T., Tachibana T., Shimura Y., Okada K. Epidermal cell differentiation in Arabidopsis determined by a Myb homolog, CPC. Science. 277:1997;1113-1116.
27. Walker A.R., Davison P.A., Bolognesi-Winfield A.C., James C.M., Srinivasan N., Blundell T.L., Esch J.J., Marks M.D., Gray J.C. The TRANSPARENT TESTA GLABRA1 locus, which regulates trichome differentiation and anthocyanin biosynthesis in Arabidopsis, encodes a WD40 repeat protein. Plant Cell. 11:1999;1337-1349.
28. Scheres B., Di Laurenzio L., Willemsen V., Hauser M.T., Janmaat K., Weisbeek P., Benfey P.N. Mutations affecting the radial organisation of the Arabidopsis root display specific defects throughout the embryonic axis. Development. 121:1995;53-62.
29. Di Laurenzio L., Wysocka-Diller J., Malamy J.E., Pysh L., Helariutta Y., Freshour G., Hahn M.G., Feldmann K.A., Benfey P.N. The SCARECROW gene regulates an asymmetric cell division that is essential for generating the radial organization of the Arabidopsis root. Cell. 86:1996;423-433.
30. Pysh L.D., Wysocka-Diller J.W., Camilleri C., Bouchez D., Benfey P.N. The GRAS gene family in Arabidopsis: sequence characterization and basic expression analysis of the SCARECROW-LIKE genes. Plant J. 18:1999;111-119.
31. Malamy J.E., Benfey P.N. Analysis of SCARECROW expression using a rapid system for assessing transgene expression in Arabidopsis roots. Plant J. 12:1997;957-963.
32. Fukaki H., Wysocka-Diller J., Kato T., Fujisawa H., Benfey P.N., Tasaka M. Genetic evidence that the endodermis is essential for shoot gravitropism in Arabidopsis thaliana. Plant J. 14:1998;425-430.
33. Wysocka-Diller J.W., Helariutta Y., Fukaki H., Malamy J.E., Benfey P.N. Molecular analysis of SCARECROW function reveals a radial patterning mechanism common to root and shoot. Development. 127:2000;595-603.