Journal
JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY
Volume 60, Issue 3, Pages 751-763Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/jxb/ern323
Keywords
Aglycone; Arabidopsis; auxin; ethylene; flavonoid; plant architecture
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- The Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence [CEO348212]
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Flavonoids are low molecular weight secondary plant metabolites with a myriad of functions. As flavonoids affect auxin transport (an important growth-controlling hormone) and are biologically active in eukaryotes, flavonoid mutants were expected to have undescribed architectural phenotypes. The Arabidopsis thaliana transparent testa (tt) mutants are compromised in the enzymatic steps or transcriptional regulators affecting flavonoid synthesis. tt mutant seedlings were grown on hard-slanted agar (a stress condition), under varying light conditions, and in soil to examine the resulting growth patterns. These tt mutants revealed a wide variety of architectural phenotypes in root and aerial tissues. Mutants with increased inflorescences, siliques, and lateral root density or reduced stature are traits that could affect plant yield or performance under certain environmental conditions. The regulatory genes affected in architectural traits may provide useful molecular targets for examination in other plants.
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