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Directional auxin transport mechanisms in early diverging land plants

  • Viaene, Tom Department of Plant Systems Biology, VIB, and Department of Plant Biotechnology and Genetics, Ghent University, Belgium
  • Landberg, Katarina Department of Plant Biology, Uppsala BioCenter, Linnean Centre of Plant Biology in Uppsala, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden
  • Thelander, Mattias Department of Plant Biology, Uppsala BioCenter, Linnean Centre of Plant Biology in Uppsala, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden
  • Medvecka, Eva Department of Plant Systems Biology, VIB, and Department of Plant Biotechnology and Genetics, Ghent University, Belgium - Mendel Centre for Genomics and Proteomics of Plants Systems, Central European Institute of Technology (CEITEC MU), Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
  • Pederson, Eric Department of Plant Biology, Uppsala BioCenter, Linnean Centre of Plant Biology in Uppsala, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden
  • Feraru, Elena Department of Plant Systems Biology, VIB, and Department of Plant Biotechnology and Genetics, Ghent University, Belgium -
  • Cooper, Endymion D. Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics and the Maryland Agricultural Experiment Station, University of Maryland, College Park, USA
  • Karimi, Mansour Department of Plant Systems Biology, VIB, and Department of Plant Biotechnology and Genetics, Ghent University, Belgium
  • Delwiche, Charles F. Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics and the Maryland Agricultural Experiment Station, University of Maryland, College Park, USA
  • Ljung, Karin Department of Forest Genetics and Plant Physiology, Umeå Plant Science Centre, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Umeå, Sweden
  • Geisler, Markus Plant Biology, Department of Biology, University of Fribourg, Switzerland
  • Sundberg, Eva Department of Plant Biology, Uppsala BioCenter, Linnean Centre of Plant Biology in Uppsala, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden
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    01.12.2014
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  • Current Biology. - 2014, vol. 24, no. 23, p. 2786–2791
English The emergence and radiation of multicellular land plants was driven by crucial innovations to their body plans [1]. The directional transport of the phytohormone auxin represents a key, plant-specific mechanism for polarization and patterning in complex seed plants [2, 3, 4 and 5]. Here, we show that already in the early diverging land plant lineage, as exemplified by the moss Physcomitrella patens, auxin transport by PIN transporters is operational and diversified into ER-localized and plasma membrane-localized PIN proteins. Gain-of-function and loss-of-function analyses revealed that PIN-dependent intercellular auxin transport in Physcomitrella mediates crucial developmental transitions in tip-growing filaments and waves of polarization and differentiation in leaf-like structures. Plasma membrane PIN proteins localize in a polar manner to the tips of moss filaments, revealing an unexpected relation between polarization mechanisms in moss tip-growing cells and multicellular tissues of seed plants. Our results trace the origins of polarization and auxin-mediated patterning mechanisms and highlight the crucial role of polarized auxin transport during the evolution of multicellular land plants.
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Faculté des sciences et de médecine
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Département de Biologie
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  • English
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Biological sciences
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