Journal
ELIFE
Volume 11, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
eLIFE SCIENCES PUBL LTD
DOI: 10.7554/eLife.79913
Keywords
grass stomata; subsidiary cells; cell polarity; asymmetric cell division; Brachypodium distachyon; stomatal gas exchange; Other
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- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft [RA 3117/1-1]
- National Science Foundation
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute
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In this study, we identified BdPOLAR as a novel factor involved in SC formation through comparative transcriptomics in Brachypodium distachyon. We found that BdPOLAR forms a distal polarity domain in subsidiary mother cells, opposite to the proximal PAN1 domain, and both polarity domains play important roles in coordinating the SC division process.
Grass stomata recruit lateral subsidiary cells (SCs), which are key to the unique stomatal morphology and the efficient plant-atmosphere gas exchange in grasses. Subsidiary mother cells (SMCs) strongly polarise before an asymmetric division forms a SC. Yet apart from a proximal polarity module that includes PANGLOSS1 (PAN1) and guides nuclear migration, little is known regarding the developmental processes that form SCs. Here, we used comparative transcriptomics of developing wild-type and SC-less bdmute leaves in the genetic model grass Brachypodium distachyon to identify novel factors involved in SC formation. This approach revealed BdPOLAR, which forms a novel, distal polarity domain in SMCs that is opposite to the proximal PAN1 domain. Both polarity domains are required for the formative SC division yet exhibit various roles in guiding pre-mitotic nuclear migration and SMC division plane orientation, respectively. Nonetheless, the domains are linked as the proximal domain controls polarisation of the distal domain. In summary, we identified two opposing polarity domains that coordinate the SC division, a process crucial for grass stomatal physiology.
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