FRUITFULL Is a Repressor of Apical Hook Opening in Arabidopsis thaliana.

ABSTRACT: Plants adjust their architecture to a constantly changing environment, requiring adaptation of differential growth. Despite their importance, molecular switches, which define growth transitions, are largely unknown. Apical hook development in dark grown Arabidopsis thaliana (A. thaliana) seedlings serves as a suitable model for differential growth transition in plants. Here, we show that the phytohormone auxin counteracts the light-induced growth transition during apical hook opening. We, subsequently, identified genes which are inversely regulated by light and auxin. We used in silico analysis of the regulatory elements in this set of genes and subsequently used natural variation in gene expression to uncover correlations between underlying transcription factors and the in silico predicte

SUBMITTER: Fuhrer M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7504503 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature