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Pectin methylesterification modulates cell wall properties to promote neighbour proximity-induced hypocotyl growth

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Plants growing with neighbours compete for light and consequently increase growth of their vegetative organs to enhance access to sunlight. This response, called shade avoidance syndrome (SAS), involves photoreceptors such as phytochromes as well as phytochrome interacting factors (PIFs), which regulate the expression of growth-mediating genes. Numerous cell wall-related genes belong to the putative targets of PIFs, and the importance of cell wall modifications for enabling growth was extensively shown in developmental models such as dark-grown hypocotyl. However, the role of the cell wall in the growth of de-etiolated seedlings regulated by shade cues remains poorly established. Through analyses of mechanical and biochemical properties of the cell wall coupled with transcriptomic analysis of cell wall-related genes, we show the importance of cell wall modifications in neighbour proximity-induced elongation. Further analysis using loss-of-function mutants impaired in the synthesis and remodeling of the main cell wall polymers corroborated this. We focused on the cgr2cgr3 double mutant that is defective in homogalacturonan (HG) methyltransferase activity required for methylesterification of HG-type pectins. By following hypocotyl growth kinetically and spatially and analyzing the mechanical and biochemical properties of cell walls, we found that methylesterification of HG-type pectins was required to enable global cell wall modifications. Moreover, HG-class pectin modification was needed for plant competition-induced hypocotyl growth. Collectively our work suggests that in the hypocotyl PIFs orchestrate changes in the expression of numerous cell wall genes to enable neighbour proximity-induced growth.
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hal-04461425 , version 1 (16-02-2024)

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Fabien Sénéchal. Pectin methylesterification modulates cell wall properties to promote neighbour proximity-induced hypocotyl growth. 2023. ⟨hal-04461425⟩
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