Grasses use an alternatively wired bHLH transcription factor network to establish stomatal identity.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
; 113(29): 8326-31, 2016 07 19.
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| ID: mdl-27382177
ABSTRACT
Stomata, epidermal valves facilitating plant-atmosphere gas exchange, represent a powerful model for understanding cell fate and pattern in plants. Core basic helix-loop-helix (bHLH) transcription factors regulating stomatal development were identified in Arabidopsis, but this dicot's developmental pattern and stomatal morphology represent only one of many possibilities in nature. Here, using unbiased forward genetic screens, followed by analysis of reporters and engineered mutants, we show that stomatal initiation in the grass Brachypodium distachyon uses orthologs of stomatal regulators known from Arabidopsis but that the function and behavior of individual genes, the relationships among genes, and the regulation of their protein products have diverged. Our results highlight ways in which a kernel of conserved genes may be alternatively wired to produce diversity in patterning and morphology and suggest that the stomatal transcription factor module is a prime target for breeding or genome modification to improve plant productivity.
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Proteínas de Plantas
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Fatores de Transcrição Hélice-Alça-Hélice Básicos
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Estômatos de Plantas
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Brachypodium
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Prognostic_studies
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En
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2016
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