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Sugar demand, not auxin, is the initial regulator of apical dominance
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Mason, MG and Ross, JJ and Babst, BA and Wienclaw, BN and Beveridge, CA, Sugar demand, not auxin, is the initial regulator of apical dominance, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of The United States of America., 111, (16) pp. 6092-6097. ISSN 0027-8424 (2014) [Refereed Article]
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Copyright 2014 The Authors
DOI: doi:10.1073/pnas.1322045111
Abstract
For almost a century the plant hormone auxin has been central to theories on apical dominance, whereby the growing shoot tip suppresses the growth of the axillary buds below. According to the classic model, the auxin indole-3-acetic acid is produced in the shoot tip and transported down the stem, where it inhibits bud growth. We report here that the initiation of bud growth after shoot tip loss cannot be dependent on apical auxin supply because we observe bud release up to 24 h before changes in auxin content in the adjacent stem. After the loss of the shoot tip, sugars are rapidly redistributed over large distances and accumulate in axillary buds within a timeframe that correlates with bud release. Moreover, artificially increasing sucrose levels in plants represses the expression of BRANCHED1 (BRC1), the key transcriptional regulator responsible for maintaining bud dormancy, and results in rapid bud release. An enhancement in sugar supply is both necessary and sufficient for suppressed buds to be released from apical dominance. Our data support a theory of apical dominance whereby the shoot tip’s strong demand for sugars inhibits axillary bud outgrowth by limiting the amount of sugar translocated to those buds.
Item Details
Item Type: | Refereed Article |
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Keywords: | auxin, branching, shoot branching, sink demand, decapitation, girdling, long-distance signaling |
Research Division: | Biological Sciences |
Research Group: | Plant biology |
Research Field: | Plant physiology |
Objective Division: | Expanding Knowledge |
Objective Group: | Expanding knowledge |
Objective Field: | Expanding knowledge in the biological sciences |
UTAS Author: | Ross, JJ (Associate Professor John Ross) |
ID Code: | 93814 |
Year Published: | 2014 |
Web of Science® Times Cited: | 310 |
Deposited By: | Plant Science |
Deposited On: | 2014-08-19 |
Last Modified: | 2017-11-02 |
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