Auxin mediates the touch-induced mechanical stimulation of adventitious root formation under windy conditions in Brachypodium distachyon.
BMC Plant Biol
; 20(1): 335, 2020 Jul 16.
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ABSTRACT
BACKGROUND:
It is widely perceived that mechanical or thigmomorphogenic stimuli, such as rubbing and bending by passing animals, wind, raindrop, and flooding, broadly influence plant growth and developmental patterning. In particular, wind-driven mechanical stimulation is known to induce the incidence of radial expansion and shorter and stockier statue. Wind stimulation also affects the adaptive propagation of the root system in various plant species. However, it is unknown how plants sense and transmit the wind-derived mechanical signals to launch appropriate responses, leading to the wind-adaptive root growth.RESULTS:
Here, we found that Brachypodium distachyon, a model grass widely used for studies on bioenergy crops and cereals, efficiently adapts to wind-mediated lodging stress by forming adventitious roots (ARs) from nonroot tissues. Experimental dissection of wind stimuli revealed that not bending of the mesocotyls but physical contact of the leaf nodes with soil particles triggers the transcriptional induction of a group of potential auxin-responsive genes encoding WUSCHEL RELATED HOMEOBOX and LATERAL ORGAN BOUNDARIES DOMAIN transcription factors, which are likely to be involved in the induction of AR formation.CONCLUSIONS:
Our findings would contribute to further understanding molecular mechanisms governing the initiation and development of ARs, which will be applicable to crop agriculture in extreme wind climates.Palavras-chave
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Base de dados:
MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Reguladores de Crescimento de Plantas
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Fatores de Transcrição
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Vento
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Brachypodium
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Ácidos Indolacéticos
Tipo de estudo:
Prognostic_studies
Idioma:
En
Revista:
BMC Plant Biol
Assunto da revista:
BOTANICA
Ano de publicação:
2020
Tipo de documento:
Article
País de afiliação:
Coréia do Sul