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Journal Article
WOX4 Promotes Procambial Development
2010
Overview
Plant shoot organs arise from initial cells that are recruited from meristematic tissues. Previous studies have shown that members of the WUSCHEL-related HOMEOBOX (WOX) gene family function to organize various initial cell populations during plant development. The function of the WOX4 gene is previously undescribed in any plant species. Comparative analyses of WOX4 transcription and function are presented in Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana), a simple-leafed plant with collateral vasculature, and in tomato (Solanum lycopersicum), a dissected-leafed species with bicollateral venation. WOX4 is transcribed in the developing vascular bundles of root and shoot lateral organs in both Arabidopsis and tomato. RNA interference-induced down-regulation of WOX4 in Arabidopsis generated small plants whose vascular bundles accumulated undifferentiated ground tissue and exhibited severe reductions in differentiated xylem and phloem. In situ hybridization analyses of Atwox4-RNA interference plants revealed delayed and reduced expression of both the phloem developmental marker ALTERED PHLOEM1 and HOMEOBOX GENE8, a marker of the vascular procambium. Overexpression of SlWOX4 correlated with overproliferation of xylem and phloem in transgenic tomato seedlings. The cumulative data suggest that the conserved WOX4 function is to promote differentiation and/or maintenance of the vascular procambium, the initial cells of the developing vasculature.
Publisher
American Society of Plant Biologists
Subject
/ Arabidopsis - growth & development
/ Arabidopsis Proteins - genetics
/ Arabidopsis Proteins - metabolism
/ Auxins
/ Biological and medical sciences
/ DEVELOPMENT AND HORMONE ACTION
/ Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology
/ Gene Expression Regulation, Developmental
/ Gene Expression Regulation, Plant
/ Genes
/ genetics
/ Homeodomain Proteins - genetics
/ Homeodomain Proteins - metabolism
/ Phloem
/ Phloem - growth & development
/ Plant physiology and development
/ Plant Roots - growth & development
/ Plant Shoots - growth & development
/ Plants
/ RNA
/ roots
/ Solanum lycopersicum - genetics
/ Solanum lycopersicum - growth & development
/ tomatoes
/ Xylem
