Cytokinin-induced promotion of root meristem size in the fern Azolla supports a shoot-like origin of euphyllophyte roots

New Phytologist

Volumn 209, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 705-720

  de Vries, Jan ^a   Fischer, Angela Melanie ^a   Roettger, Mayo ^a   Rommel, Sophie ^a   Schluepmann, Henriette ^b   Bräutigam, Andrea ^a   Carlsbecker, Annelie ^c   Gould, Sven Bernhard ^a  

^a HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Apical development; Auxin; Cytokinin; Fern; Meristem regulation; RNAseq; Root development; Root evolution

Indexed keywords

ANGIOSPERM; CELLS AND CELL COMPONENTS; DICOTYLEDON; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; FERN; GENE EXPRESSION; HORMONE; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; PROTEIN; ROOT ARCHITECTURE; ROOT SYSTEM; SHOOT; SIZE;

ARABIDOPSIS; AZOLLA; AZOLLA FILICULOIDES; EUPHYLLOPHYTA; FILICOPHYTA; MAGNOLIOPHYTA;

CYTOKININ; EXPANSIN PROTEIN, PLANT; INDOLEACETIC ACID DERIVATIVE; PLANT PROTEIN; ZEATIN;

CELL WALL; CYTOLOGY; DRUG EFFECTS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MERISTEM; METABOLISM; PLANT ROOT; POLYPODIACEAE; SHOOT; XYLEM;

CELL WALL; CYTOKININS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; INDOLEACETIC ACIDS; MERISTEM; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANT ROOTS; PLANT SHOOTS; POLYPODIACEAE; XYLEM; ZEATIN;

EID: 84955200055     PISSN: 0028646X     EISSN: 14698137     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/nph.13630     Document Type: Article

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