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Three ancient hormonal cues co-ordinate shoot branching in a moss

Yoan Coudert
Wojtek Palubicki
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Karin Ljung
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Ondrej Novak
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Ottoline Leyser
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Jill Harrison
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Abstract

Shoot branching is a primary contributor to plant architecture, evolving independently in flowering plant sporophytes and moss gametophytes. Mechanistic understanding of branching is largely limited to flowering plants such as Arabidopsis, which have a recent evolutionary origin. We show that in gametophytic shoots of Physcomitrella, lateral branches arise by re-specification of epidermal cells into branch initials. A simple model coordinating the activity of leafy shoot tips can account for branching patterns, and three known and ancient hormonal regulators of sporophytic branching interact to generate the branching pattern-auxin, cytokinin and strigolactone. The mode of auxin transport required in branch patterning is a key divergence point from known sporophytic pathways. Although PIN-mediated basipetal auxin transport regulates branching patterns in flowering plants, this is not so in Physcomitrella, where bi-directional transport is required to generate realistic branching patterns. Experiments with callose synthesis inhibitors suggest plasmodesmal connectivity as a potential mechanism for transport.
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hal-02999193 , version 1 (10-11-2020)

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Yoan Coudert, Wojtek Palubicki, Karin Ljung, Ondrej Novak, Ottoline Leyser, et al.. Three ancient hormonal cues co-ordinate shoot branching in a moss. eLife, 2015. ⟨hal-02999193⟩
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