The Arabidopsis AtRaptor genes are essential for post-embryonic plant growth.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Flowering plant development is wholly reliant on growth from meristems, which contain totipotent cells that give rise to all post-embryonic organs in the plant. Plants are uniquely able to alter their development throughout their lifespan through the generation of new organs in response to external signals. To identify genes that regulate meristem-based growth, we considered homologues of Raptor proteins, which regulate cell growth in response to nutrients in yeast and metazoans as part of a signaling complex with the target of rapamycin (TOR) kinase.

Results

We identified AtRaptor1A and AtRaptor1B, two loci predicted to encode Raptor proteins in Arabidopsis. Disruption of AtRaptor1B yields plants with a wide range of developmental defects: roots are thick and gro

SUBMITTER: Anderson GH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC1131892 | biostudies-literature | 2005 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature