Display options
Share it on

Biol Open. 2013 Aug 22;2(11):1093-102. doi: 10.1242/bio.20135991. eCollection 2013.

Mutations in the Arabidopsis RPK1 gene uncouple cotyledon anlagen and primordia by modulating epidermal cell shape and polarity.

Biology open

Miriam Luichtl, Birgit S Fiesselmann, Michaela Matthes, Xiaomeng Yang, Ottilie Peis, Andrä Brunner, Ramon A Torres-Ruiz

Affiliations

  1. Lehrstuhl für Genetik, Technische Universität München, Wissenschaftszentrum Weihenstephan , Emil-Ramann-Strasse 8, D-85354 Freising , Germany.

PMID: 24244845 PMCID: PMC3828755 DOI: 10.1242/bio.20135991

Abstract

Plant seedlings have either one or two cotyledons. The mechanisms that regulate this organ number are poorly understood. Mutations in the RECEPTOR-LIKE PROTEIN KINASE1 (RPK1) gene of the dicot Arabidopsis have only one cotyledon, with low penetrance due to complex genetic redundancy. An analysis of patterning genes required for cotyledon initiation showed that these have normal expression patterns, defining the cotyledon anlagen, in rpk1. This was also true for key genes, which organize the shoot apical meristem (SAM). By contrast, epidermal cell shape and polarity were compromised in rpk1 embryos, as evidenced by disturbed polarity of the auxin efflux carrier PIN1. PIN1 is required for the establishment of auxin maxima, which induce and maintain organ primordia. The effects in rpk1 mutants manifest in a spatially and timely stochastic fashion probably due to redundancy of RPK1-like functions. Consistently, auxin maxima showed a stochastic distribution in rpk1 embryos, being at times entirely absent and at other times supernumerary. This variability may explain how monocotyledonous seedlings and cotyledon shape variants can developmentally arise in Arabidopsis and possibly in other plants.

Keywords: Angiosperm evolution; Arabidopsis; Cotyledon; Embryo development; RPK1

References

  1. Development. 2012 Jul;139(13):2436-46 - PubMed
  2. Development. 2007 Jul;134(14):2561-7 - PubMed
  3. Nat Cell Biol. 2008 Feb;10(2):237-44 - PubMed
  4. J Exp Bot. 2008;59(11):2917-31 - PubMed
  5. Development. 2000 Feb;127(4):813-20 - PubMed
  6. Cell. 2003 Nov 26;115(5):591-602 - PubMed
  7. Nature. 2008 Dec 18;456(7224):962-6 - PubMed
  8. Development. 2007 Nov;134(21):3849-59 - PubMed
  9. Plant Cell. 2005 Apr;17(4):1105-19 - PubMed
  10. Dev Biol. 2008 Feb 1;314(1):161-70 - PubMed
  11. Genome Res. 2003 Mar;13(3):524-30 - PubMed
  12. Plant J. 2009 Jan;57(1):27-44 - PubMed
  13. Dev Cell. 2004 Sep;7(3):373-85 - PubMed
  14. Science. 1999 Mar 19;283(5409):1911-4 - PubMed
  15. Dev Cell. 2007 Jun;12(6):943-56 - PubMed
  16. Biotechniques. 2007 Nov;43(5):649-50, 652, 654 passim - PubMed
  17. Nature. 2000 Dec 14;408(6814):796-815 - PubMed
  18. Development. 1997 Apr;124(7):1275-80 - PubMed
  19. J Cell Sci. 2006 Apr 1;119(Pt 7):1255-65 - PubMed
  20. Cell. 2000 Feb 18;100(4):469-78 - PubMed
  21. Ann Bot. 2008 Jan;101(1):153-64 - PubMed
  22. Development. 2004 Oct;131(20):5021-30 - PubMed
  23. Development. 2009 May;136(10):1643-51 - PubMed
  24. Nature. 2003 Nov 20;426(6964):255-60 - PubMed
  25. Nature. 1996 Jan 4;379(6560):66-9 - PubMed
  26. Development. 2002 Jul;129(13):3207-17 - PubMed
  27. Plant Cell Physiol. 2011 Apr;52(4):651-62 - PubMed
  28. Development. 2010 Nov;137(22):3911-20 - PubMed
  29. Development. 2009 Feb;136(4):627-36 - PubMed
  30. Development. 2005 Sep;132(18):4063-74 - PubMed
  31. J Biol Chem. 2010 Mar 19;285(12):9190-201 - PubMed
  32. Plant Cell. 1996 Apr;8(4):735-46 - PubMed
  33. Nature. 2007 Mar 15;446(7133):312-5 - PubMed
  34. Plant Cell. 1996 Feb;8(2):155-68 - PubMed
  35. Development. 1999 Apr;126(8):1563-70 - PubMed
  36. Plant Cell. 2011 Jun;23(6):2184-95 - PubMed
  37. Cell. 2007 Sep 21;130(6):1044-56 - PubMed
  38. Plant Cell. 2011 Apr;23(4):1352-72 - PubMed
  39. Genes Dev. 1995 Jul 15;9(14):1797-810 - PubMed
  40. Plant J. 2003 Oct;36(1):122-40 - PubMed
  41. Genes Dev. 2006 Apr 15;20(8):1015-27 - PubMed
  42. Development. 2010 Oct;137(19):3245-55 - PubMed
  43. Trends Plant Sci. 2006 Apr;11(4):167-75 - PubMed
  44. Plant Cell. 2007 Feb;19(2):495-508 - PubMed
  45. Nature. 1997 Jul 10;388(6638):167-71 - PubMed
  46. Science. 2004 Oct 29;306(5697):862-5 - PubMed
  47. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2011 Nov 8;108(45):18518-23 - PubMed
  48. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 Dec 30;105(52):21017-22 - PubMed
  49. Trends Genet. 1997 Sep;13(9):360-4 - PubMed
  50. Dev Genes Evol. 2002 Dec;212(11):542-50 - PubMed

Publication Types