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Open AccessPioneer Arabidopsis thaliana spans the succession gradient revealing a diverse root-associated microbiome
Soil microbiomes are increasingly acknowledged to affect plant functioning. Research in molecular model species Arabidopsis thaliana has given detailed insights of such plant-microbiome interactions. However, the...
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RETINOBLASTOMA-RELATED interactions with key factors of the RNA-directed DNA methylation (RdDM) pathway and its influence on root development
Our study presents evidence for a novel mechanism for RBR function in transcriptional gene silencing by interacting with key players of the RdDM pathway in Arabidopsis and several plant clades.
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Open AccessRetraction Note: PPP1, a plant-specific regulator of transcription controls Arabidopsis development and PIN expression
Editor's Note: this Article has been retracted; the Retraction Note is available at https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-87406-5.
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In vivo FRET–FLIM reveals cell-type-specific protein interactions in Arabidopsis roots
Imaging in living Arabidopsis roots reveals that protein complexes can change their conformation in a cell-type-dependent manner to regulate specific gene expression programs leading to precise specification and ...
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The plant perceptron connects environment to development
Plants cope with the environment in a variety of ways, and ecological analyses attempt to capture this through life-history strategies or trait-based categorization. These approaches are limited because they t...
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Analysis of a Plant Transcriptional Regulatory Network Using Transient Expression Systems
In plant biology, transient expression systems have become valuable approaches used routinely to rapidly study protein expression, subcellular localization, protein-protein interactions, and transcriptional ac...
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Open AccessRETRACTED ARTICLE: PPP1, a plant-specific regulator of transcription controls Arabidopsis development and PIN expression
Directional transport of auxin is essential for plant development, with PIN auxin transport proteins representing an integral part of the machinery that controls hormone distribution. However, unlike the rapidly ...
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PLETHORA gradient formation mechanism separates auxin responses
Through a combination of experimental and computational approaches, the interplay between the plant hormone auxin and the auxin-induced PLETHORA transcription factors is shown to control zonation and gravity-p...
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Retraction Note: Generation of cell polarity in plants links endocytosis, auxin distribution and cell fate decisions
Our Letter reported that PIN transporters for the plant hormone auxin are initially delivered to the plasma membrane in a non-polar manner and that their polar distribution requires endocytosis. Abolishing PIN...
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Retraction Note: CLASP-mediated cortical microtubule organization guides PIN polarization axis
Nature 495, 529–533 (2013); doi:10.1038/nature11980 After re-examination of this Letter, concerns with some of the reported data were raised. It was found that two confocal images were near-identical in panels...
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CLASP-mediated cortical microtubule organization guides PIN polarization axis
The microtubule orientation regulators CLASP and MAP65 are shown to control the distribution of the polarity regulator PINOID kinase by controlling its retention at the plasma membrane, providing a mechanism f...
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Open AccessMorphogengineering roots: comparing mechanisms of morphogen gradient formation
In developmental biology, there has been a recent focus on the robustness of morphogen gradients as possible providers of positional information. It was shown that functional morphogen gradients present strong...
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Phosphorylation switch modulates the interdigitated pattern of PIN1 localization and cell expansion in Arabidopsis leaf epidermis
Within a multicellular tissue cells may coordinately form a singular or multiple polar axes, but it is unclear whether a common mechanism governs different types of polar axis formation. The phosphorylation st...
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Open AccessIdentification of factors required for meristem function in Arabidopsis using a novel next generation sequencing fast forward genetics approach
Phenotype-driven forward genetic experiments are powerful approaches for linking phenotypes to genomic elements but they still involve a laborious positional cloning process. Although sequencing of complete ge...
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Open AccessProbing the roles of LRR RLK genes in Arabidopsis thaliana roots using a custom T-DNA insertion set
Leucine-rich repeat receptor-like protein kinases (LRR RLKs) represent the largest group of Arabidopsis RLKs with approximately 235 members. A minority of these LRR RLKs have been assigned to diverse roles in dev...
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Roots respond to an inner calling
In plant roots, patterning of two types of water-conducting xylem tissue is determined by a signalling system that involves the reciprocal dance of a mobile transcription factor and mobile microRNAs.
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Generation of cell polarity in plants links endocytosis, auxin distribution and cell fate decisions
The polar transport of the plant hormone auxin is dependent on the localization of its efflux carriers called PINs. At present the mechanism mediating polarity of PIN proteins within cells remains unclear. In ...
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PLETHORA proteins as dose-dependent master regulators of Arabidopsis root development
Polar auxin transport is a factor in almost all developmental processes in plants but there is still much to be learned about how it operates. In cells, directional auxin transport is controlled by the PIN pro...
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Auxin transport is sufficient to generate a maximum and gradient guiding root growth
The plant growth regulator auxin controls cell identity, cell division and cell expansion. Auxin efflux facilitators (PINs) are associated with auxin maxima in distal regions of both shoots and roots. Here we ...
