Glucose and auxin signaling interaction in controlling Arabidopsis thaliana seedlings root growth and development.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Plant root growth and development is highly plastic and can adapt to many environmental conditions. Sugar signaling has been shown to affect root growth and development by interacting with phytohormones such as gibberellins, cytokinin and abscisic acid. Auxin signaling and transport has been earlier shown to be controlling plant root length, number of lateral roots, root hair and root growth direction.

Principal findings

Increasing concentration of glucose not only controls root length, root hair and number of lateral roots but can also modulate root growth direction. Since root growth and development is also controlled by auxin, whole genome transcript profiling was done to find out the extent of interaction between glucose and auxin response pathways. Glucose al

SUBMITTER: Mishra BS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2637607 | biostudies-literature | 2009

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature