MiR396-targeted AtGRF transcription factors are required for coordination of cell division and differentiation during leaf development in Arabidopsis.

ABSTRACT: In plants, cell proliferation and polarized cell differentiation along the adaxial-abaxial axis in the primordium is critical for leaf morphogenesis, while the temporal-spatial relationships between these two processes remain largely unexplored. Here, it is reported that microRNA396 (miR396)-targeted Arabidopsis growth-regulating factors (AtGRFs) are required for leaf adaxial-abaxial polarity in Arabidopsis. Reduction of the expression of AtGRF genes by transgenic miR396 overexpression in leaf polarity mutants asymmetric leaves1 (as1) and as2 resulted in plants with enhanced leaf adaxial-abaxial defects, as a consequence of reduced cell proliferation. Moreover, transgenic miR396 overexpression markedly decreased the cell division activity and the expression of cell cycle-related genes, but

SUBMITTER: Wang L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3003814 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature