ORCID Profile
0000-0003-1612-4019
Current Organisation
University of Leeds
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Publisher: Public Library of Science (PLoS)
Date: 27-04-2016
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 12-2008
DOI: 10.1016/J.DEVCEL.2008.09.019
Abstract: Because plant cells do not migrate, cell ision planes are crucial determinants of plant cellular architecture. In Arabidopsis roots, stringent control of cell isions leads to a virtually invariant ision pattern, including those that create new tissue layers. However, the mechanisms that control oriented cell isions are hitherto poorly understood. Here, we reveal one such mechanism in which FEZ and SOMBRERO (SMB), two plant-specific NAC-domain transcription factors, control the delicately tuned reorientation and timing of cell ision in a subset of stem cells. FEZ is expressed in root cap stem cells, where it promotes periclinal, root cap-forming cell isions. In contrast, SMB negatively regulates FEZ activity, repressing stem cell-like isions in the root cap daughter cells. FEZ becomes expressed in pre ision stem cells, induces oriented cell ision, and activates expression of its negative regulator, SMB, thus generating a feedback loop for controlled switches in cell ision plane.
Publisher: Annual Reviews
Date: 28-04-2017
DOI: 10.1146/ANNUREV-ARPLANT-042916-040925
Abstract: Strigolactones are a structurally erse class of plant hormones that control many aspects of shoot and root growth. Strigolactones are also exuded by plants into the rhizosphere, where they promote symbiotic interactions with arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and germination of root parasitic plants in the Orobanchaceae family. Therefore, understanding how strigolactones are made, transported, and perceived may lead to agricultural innovations as well as a deeper knowledge of how plants function. Substantial progress has been made in these areas over the past decade. In this review, we focus on the molecular mechanisms, core developmental roles, and evolutionary history of strigolactone signaling. We also propose potential translational applications of strigolactone research to agriculture.
Publisher: Humana Press
Date: 30-08-2013
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-62703-580-4_7
Abstract: Grafting provides a simple way to generate chimeric plants with regions of different genotypes and thus to assess the cell autonomy of gene action. The technique of grafting has been widely used in other species, but in Arabidopsis, its small size makes the process rather more demanding. However, there are now several well-established grafting procedures available, which we described here, and their use has already contributed greatly to understanding of such processes as shoot branching control, flowering, disease resistance, and systemic silencing.
Location: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Location: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Location: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
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