1. Strigolactones (SLs) modulate the plastochron by regulating KLUH (KLU) transcript abundance in Arabidopsis
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Cornet, Florent, Pillot, Jean‐Paul, Le Bris, Philippe, Pouvreau, Jean‐Bernard, Arnaud, Nicolas, Saint Germain, Alexandre, Rameau, Catherine, Institut Jean-Pierre Bourgin (IJPB), AgroParisTech-Université Paris-Saclay-Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE), Universite Paris-Saclay, Orsay 91405, France, Laboratoire de biologie et pathologie végétales (LBPV), Université de Nantes - UFR des Sciences et des Techniques (UN UFR ST), Université de Nantes (UN)-Université de Nantes (UN), Stream COST Action FA1206, ANR-17-EURE-0007,SPS-GSR,Ecole Universitaire de Recherche de Sciences des Plantes de Paris-Saclay(2017), ANR-12-BSV6-0017,INFERNO,Hérédité épigénétique transgénérationnelle chez les ciliés : mécanismes et conséquences évolutives(2012), and ANR-12-BSV6-0004,StrigoPath,Voies de signalisation des strigolactones (et/ou de dérivés) chez les plantes terrestres(2012)
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Arabidopsis ,food and beverages ,CYP78A ,shoot branching ,[SDV.BV]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Vegetal Biology ,strigolactones ,plant hormone ,plastochron - Abstract
International audience; The timing of leaf emergence at the shoot apical meristem, or plastochron, is highly regulated in plants. Among the genes known to regulate the plastochron in Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana), KLUH (KLU), orthologous to the rice (Oryza sativa) PLASTOCHRON1, encodes the cytochrome P450 CYP78A5, and is thought to act through generation of a still unknown mobile signal. As klu mutants display not only a short plastochron but also a branching phenotype reminiscent of strigolactone (SL) mutants, we investigated whether KLU/CYP78A5 is involved in SL biosynthesis. We combined a genetic approach, a parasitic plant seed germination bioassay to test klu root exudates, and analysis of transcript abundances of SL-biosynthesis genes in the Arabidopsis klu mutants. We demonstrate that KLU is not involved in the SL-biosynthesis pathway. Moreover, this work allowed us to uncover a new role for SL during Arabidopsis development in modulating plastochron via a KLU-dependent pathway. Globally our data reveal that KLU is required for plastochron-specific SL responses, a first indication of crosstalk between SL and the KLU-derived signal.
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- 2021