Leaf-to-shoot apex movement of symplastic tracer is restricted coincident with flowering in Arabidopsis

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作者
Gisel, A [1 ]
Hempel, FD [1 ]
Barella, S [1 ]
Zambryski, P [1 ]
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[1] Univ Calif Berkeley, Dept Plant & Microbial Biol, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA
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10.1073/pnas.251675698
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O [数理科学和化学]; P [天文学、地球科学]; Q [生物科学]; N [自然科学总论];
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07 ; 0710 ; 09 ;
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Classical experiments in plant physiology showed that leaves are the source of signals that control the development of flowers from shoot meristems. Additional physiological and genetic experiments have indicated some of the molecules (e.g., gibberellins, cytokinins, and sucrose) that promote flowering in mustards including Arabidopsis. These small hydrophilic molecules are likely to move to the shoot apex symplastically via the phloem and/or via cell-to-cell movement through plasmodesmata. To analyze potential changes in the symplastic trafficking of small molecules during the induction of flowering in Arabidopsis, we measured changes in the flow of symplastic tracers from the leaf to the shoot apex. We previously found that the onset of flowering is coincident with an evident decrease in the leaf-to-shoot trafficking of symplastic tracer molecules; this decrease in trafficking is transitory and resumes when floral development is established. Here we provide detailed analyses of symplastic connectivity during floral induction by monitoring tracer movement under different photoperiodic induction conditions and in a number of genetic backgrounds with altered flowering times. In all cases, the correlation between flowering and the reduction of symplastic tracer movement holds true. The lack of tracer movement during the induction of flowering may represent a change in plasmodesmal selectivity at this time or that a period of reduced symplastic communi. cation is associated with floral induction.
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