Abstract
Aerial organs of plants, being highly prone to local injuries, require tissue restoration to ensure their survival. However, knowledge of the underlying mechanism is sparse. In this study, we mimicked natural injuries in growing leaves and stems to study the reunion between mechanically disconnected tissues. We show that PLETHORA (PLT) and AINTEGUMENTA (ANT) genes, which encode stem cell-promoting factors, are activated and contribute to vascular regeneration in response to these injuries. PLT proteins bind to and activate the CUC2 promoter. PLT proteins and CUC2 regulate the transcription of the local auxin biosynthesis gene YUC4 in a coherent feed-forward loop, and this process is necessary to drive vascular regeneration. In the absence of this PLT-mediated regeneration response, leaf ground tissue cells can neither acquire the early vascular identity marker ATHB8, nor properly polarise auxin transporters to specify new venation paths. The PLT-CUC2 module is required for vascular regeneration, but is dispensable for midvein formation in leaves. We reveal the mechanisms of vascular regeneration in plants and distinguish between the wound-repair ability of the tissue and its formation during normal development.
Original language | American English |
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Article number | 185710 |
Journal | Development (Cambridge) |
Volume | 147 |
Issue number | 6 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 30 Mar 2020 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:K.P. acknowledges grants from the Department of Biotechnology (DBT), Government of India [grant BT/PR12394/AGIII/103/891/2014] and Department of Science and Technology, Science and Engineering Research Board (DST-SERB), Government of India [grant EMR/2017/002503/PS] and also acknowledges the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Thiruvananthapuram (IISER-TVM) for infrastructure and financial support. D.R. acknowledges a University Grants Commission (UGC) fellowship. A.P.S., V.V. and A.T. are recipients of Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) fellowships. A.K. was supported by an Indian Institute of Science Education and Research-Thiruvananthapuram fellowship. M.A. acknowledges Department of Biotechnology (DBT), Ministry of Science and Technology, Government of India for granting the DBT-Post Doctoral Fellowship (DBT-RA Program). D.V. was a recipient of an Innovation in Science Pursuit for Inspired Research scholarship, and A.N.L was supported by a Kishore Vaigyanik Protsahan Yojana scholarship of the Department of Science and Technology, Government of India. A.P.M. acknowledges grants from the Academy of Finland [grants 266431 and 271832]. I.E. acknowledges the Israel Science Foundation [ISF966/17] and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute [International Research Scholar Grant 55008730]. B.A.K. was supported by a grant from National Science Foundation (NSF) [grant NSFIOS135442]. E.S. was supported by Discovery Grants of the Natural Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada [grants NSERC RGPIN-2016-04736 and NSERC RGPAS 492872-2016].
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Keywords
- Arabidopsis
- Auxin
- CUC2
- PIN1
- PLT
- Vascular regeneration
- Wound repair