Current opinions on endosperm transfer cells in maize

Plant Cell Reports

Volumn 29, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 935-942

  Zheng, Yankun ^a   Wang, Zhong ^a  

^a YANGZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Differentiation; Endosperm transfer cells; Function; Maize; Wall ingrowths

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL WALL; CYTOLOGY; ENDOSPERM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; MAIZE; METABOLISM; PROMOTER REGION; REVIEW; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL WALL; ENDOSPERM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; PLANT PROTEINS; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; ZEA MAYS;

ZEA MAYS;

EID: 77955769937     PISSN: 07217714     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00299-010-0891-z     Document Type: Review

References (42)

1. Baranowskij N, Frohberg C, Prat S, Willmitzer L (1994) A novel DNA binding protein with homology to MYB oncoproteins containing only one repeat can function as a transcriptional activator. EMBO J 13: 5383-5392.
2. Barrero C, Royo J, Grijota-Martinez C, Faye C, Paul W, Sanz S, Steinbiss HH, Hueros G (2009) The promoter of ZmMRP-1, a maize transfer cell-specific transcriptional activator, is induced at solute exchange surfaces and responds to transport demands. Planta 229: 235-247.
3. Charlton WL, Keen CL, Merriman C, Lynch P, Greenland AJ, Dickinson HG (1995) Endosperm development in Zea mays; implication of gametic imprinting and paternal excess in regulation of transfer layer development. Development 121: 3089-3097.
4. Cheng WH, Taliercio EW, Chourey PS (1996) The Miniature1 seed locus of maize encodes a cell wall invertase required for normal development of endosperm and maternal cells in the pedicel. Plant Cell 8: 971-983.
5. Cheng WH, Taliercio EW, Chourey PS (1999) Sugars modulate an unusual mode of control of the cell-wall invertase gene (Incw1) through its 30 untranslated region in a cell suspension culture of maize. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 96: 10512-10517.
6. Costa LM, Gutiérrez-Marcos JF, Brutnell TP, Greenland AJ, Dickinson HG (2003) The globby1-1 (glo1-1) mutation disrupts nuclear and cell division in the developing maize seed causing alterations in endosperm cell fate and tissue differentiation. Development 130: 5009-5017.
7. Davis RW, Smith JD, Cobb BG (1990) A light and electron microscope investigation of the transfer cell region of maize caryopses. Can J Bot 68: 471-479.
8. DeWitt G, Richards J, Mohnen D, Jones AM (1999) Comparative compositional analysis of walls with two different morphologies: archetypical versus transfer-cell like. Protoplasma 209: 238-245.
9. Doan DNP, Linnestad C, Olsen OA (1996) Isolation of molecular markers from the barley endosperm coenocyte and the surrounding nucellus cell layers. Plant Mol Biol 31: 877-886.
10. Drea S, Leader DJ, Arnold BC, Shaw P, Dolan L, Doonan JH (2005) Systematic spatial analysis of gene expression during wheat caryopsis development. Plant Cell 17: 2172-2185.
11. 14C-labeled assimilates into kernels of Zea mays L III. An anatomical examination and microautoradiographic study of assimilate transfer. Plant Physiol 65: 864-870.
12. Gómez E, Royo J, Guo Y, Thompson R, Hueros G (2002) Establishment of cereal endosperm expression domains: identification and properties of a maize transfer cell-specific transcription factor, ZmMRP-1. Plant Cell 14: 599-610.
13. Gómez E, Royo J, Muñiz LM, Sellam O, Paul W, Gerentes D, Barrero C, López M, Perez P, Hueros G (2009) The maize transcription factor myb-related protein-1 is a key regulator of the differentiation of transfer cells. The Plant Cell 21: 2022-2035.
14. Gutiérrez-Marcos JF, Costa LM, Biderre-Petit C, Khbaya B, O'Sullivan DM, Wormald M, Perez P, Dickinson HG (2004) Maternally expressed gene1 is a novel maize endosperm transfer cell-specific gene with a maternal parent-of-origin pattern of expression. Plant Cell 16: 1288-1301.
15. Gutiérrez-Marcos JF, Costa LM, Evans MMS (2006) Maternal gametophytic baseless1 is required for development of the central cell and early endosperm patterning in maize (Zea mays). Genetics 174: 317-329.
16. Gutiérrez-Marcos JF, Dal Prà M, Giulini A, Costa LM, Gavazzi G, Cordelier S, Sellam O, Tatout C, Paul W, Perez P, Dickinson HG, Consonni G (2007) empty pericarp4 encodes a mitochondrion-targeted pentatricopeptide repeat protein necessary for seed development and plant growth in maize. Plant Cell 19: 196-210.
17. Hueros G, Varotto S, Salamini F, Thompson RD (1995) Molecular characterization of Bet1, a gene expressed in the endosperm transfer cells of maize. Plant Cell 7: 747-757.
18. Hueros G, Royo J, Maitz M, Salamini F, Thompson RD (1999) Evidence for factors regulating transfer cell-specific expression in maize endosperm. Plant Mol Biol 41: 403-414.
19. Jarvis M (1992) Self-assembly of plant cell walls. Plant Cell Environ 15: 1-5.
20. Kladnick A, Chamusco K, Dermastia M, Chourey P (2004) Evidence of programmed cell death in post-phloem transport cells of the maternal pedicel tissue in developing caryopsis of maize. Plant Physiol 136: 3572-3581.
21. Maitz M, Santandrea G, Zhang Z, Lal S, Hannah LC, Salamini F, Thompson RD (2000) rgf1, a mutation reducing grain filling in maize through effects on basal endosperm and pedicel development. Plant J 23: 29-42.
22. McCurdy DW, Patrick JW, Offler CE (2008) Wall ingrowth formation in transfer cells: novel examples of localized wall deposition in plant cells. Curr Opin Plant Biol 11: 653-661.
23. Miller ME, Chourey PS (1992) The maize invertase-deficient miniature-1 seed mutation is associated with aberrant pedicel and endosperm development. Plant Cell 4: 297-305.
24. Muñiz LM, Royo J, Gómez E, Barrero C, Bergareche D, Hueros G (2006) The maize transfer cell-specific type-A response regulator ZmTCRR-1 appears to be involved in intercellular signalling. Plant J 48: 17-27.
25. Offler CE, Liet E, Sutton EG (1997) Transfer cell induction in cotyledons of Vicia faba L. Protoplasma 200: 51-64.
26. Offler CE, McCurdy DW, Patrick JW, Talbot MJ (2003) Transfer cells: cells specialized for a special purpose. Annu Rev Plant Biol 54: 431-454.
27. Olsen OA (2001) Endosperm development: cellularization and cell fate specification. Annu Rev Plant Physiol Plant Mol Biol 52: 233-267.
28. Rose A, Meier I, Wienand U (1999) The tomato I-box binding factor LeMYBI is a member of a novel class of Myb-like proteins. Plant J. 20: 641-652.
29. 2 zinc finger-containing proteins. Planta 230: 807-818.
30. Ruan YL, Chourey PS, Delmer DP, Perez-Grau L (1997) The differential expression of sucrose synthase in relation to diverse patterns of carbon partitioning in developing cotton seed. Plant Physiol 115: 375-385.
31. Ruan YL, Llewellyn DJ, Furbank RT (2003) Suppression of sucrose synthase gene expression represses cotton fiber cell initiation, elongation, and seed development. Plant Cell 15: 952-964.
32. Sreenivasulu N, Altschmied L, Radchuk V, Gubatz S, Wobus U, Weschke W (2004) Transcript profiles and deduced changes of metabolic pathways in maternal and filial tissues of developing barley grains. Plant J 37: 539-553.
33. Talbot MJ, Offler CE, McCurdy DW (2002) Transfer cell wall architecture: a contribution towards understanding localized wall deposition. Protoplasma 219: 197-209.
34. Talbot MJ, Wasteneys G, McCurdy DW, Offler CE (2007) Deposition patterns of cellulose microfibrils in flange wall ingrowths of transfer cells indicate clear parallels with those of secondary wall thickenings. Funct Plant Biol 34: 307-313.
35. Taylor JG, Haigler CH (1993) Patterned secondary cell-wall assembly occurs in a self-perpetuating cascade. Acta Bot Neerl 42: 153-163.
36. Thiel J, Weier D, Sreenivasulu N, Strickert M, Weichert N, Melzer M, Czauderna T, Wobus U, Weber H, Weschke W (2008) Different hormonal regulation of cellular differentiation and function in nucellar projection and endosperm transfer cells: a microdissection-based transcriptome study of young barley grains. Plant Physiol 148: 1436-1452.
37. Thompson RD, Hueros G, Becker H, Maitz M (2001) Development and functions of seed transfer cells. Plant Sci 160: 775-783.
38. Vaughn KC, Talbot MJ, Offler CE, McCurdy DW (2007) Wall ingrowths in epidermal transfer cells of Vicia faba cotyledons are modified primary walls marked by localized accumulations of arabinogalactan proteins. J Plant Cell Physiol 48: 159-168.
39. Wang HL, Offler CE, Patrick JW (1994) Nucellar projection transfer cells in the developing wheat grain. Protoplasma 182: 39-52.
40. Wardini T, Wang XD, Offler CE, Patrick JW (2007) Induction of wall ingrowths of transfer cells occurs rapidly and depends upon gene expression in cotyledons of developing Vicia faba seeds. Protoplasma 231: 15-23.
41. Weschke W, Panitz R, Sauer N, Wang Q, Neubohn B, Weber H, Wobus U (2000) Sucrose transport into developing barley seeds: molecular characterization of two transporters and implications for seed development and starch accumulation. Plant J 21: 455-467.
42. Weschke W, Panitz R, Gubatz S, Wang Q, Radchuk R, Weber H, Wobus U (2003) The role of invertases and hexose transporters in controlling sugar ratios in maternal and filial tissues of barley caryopses during early development. Plant J 33: 395-411.