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Receptor-like kinase ACR4 restricts formative cell divisions in the Arabidopsis root

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SCIENCE
Volume 322, Issue 5901, Pages 594-597

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AMER ASSOC ADVANCEMENT SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1126/science.1160158

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  1. Interuniversity Poles of Attraction Prograin-Belgian Science Policy [P5/13]
  2. U.S. National Science Foundation Arabidopsis 2010 program
  3. non-European Union researchers from the Belgian Science Policy
  4. European Molecular Biology Organization [ALTF 108-2006, ALTF 142-2007]
  5. Institute for the Promotion of innovation by Science and Technology in Flanders
  6. Bijzonder Onderzoeksfonds van de Universitert Gent
  7. Gatsby Charitable Foundation
  8. Research Foundation of Flanders

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During the development of multicellular organisms, organogenesis and pattern formation depend on formative divisions to specify and maintain pools of stem cells. In higher plants, these activities are essential to shape the final root architecture because the functioning of root apical meristems and the de novo formation of lateral roots entirely rely on it. We used transcript profiling on sorted pericycle cells undergoing lateral root initiation to identify the receptor-like kinase ACR4 of Arabidopsis as a key factor both in promoting formative cell divisions in the pericycle and in constraining the number of these divisions once organogenesis has been started. In the root tip meristem, ACR4 shows a similar action by controlling cell proliferation activity in the columella cell lineage. Thus, ACR4 function reveals a common mechanism of formative cell division control in the main root tip meristem and during lateral root initiation.

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