Author:
Emenecker Ryan J.,Cammarata Joseph,Yuan Irene,Strader Lucia C.
Abstract
AbstractAuxin regulates many aspects of plant growth and development in concert with other plant hormones. Auxin interactions with these other phytohormones to regulate distinct processes is not fully understood. Using a forward genetics screen designed to identify seedlings resistant to the suppressive effects of auxin on dark-grown hypocotyl elongation, we identified a mutant defective in ABA ALDEHYDE OXIDASE3 (AAO3), which encodes for the enzyme that carries out the final step in the biosynthesis of the plant hormone abscisic acid (ABA). We found that all examined ABA deficient mutants display resistance to the inhibitory effects of auxin on dark-grown hypocotyl elongation, suggesting that aspects of ABA signaling are downstream of auxin in regulating dark-grown hypocotyl elongation. Conversely, these mutants display wild type responsiveness to auxin in root elongation assays, suggesting that ABA does not act downstream of auxin in regulating elongation of the root. Our RNA-seq analysis suggests that many auxin-repressed genes in the hypocotyl require an intact ABA pathway for full repression. Our results suggest a model in which auxin partially requires intact ABA biosynthesis in order to regulate hypocotyl elongation, but not to regulate primary root elongation, suggesting that the genetic interactions between these two pathways are tissue-dependent.
Publisher
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Cited by
3 articles.
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