Journal
PLANT JOURNAL
Volume 92, Issue 2, Pages 305-316Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/tpj.13656
Keywords
root hairs; nitrate; TGA1; CPC; NRT1; 1; WER; Arabidopsis thaliana
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- Howard Hughes Medical Institute
- Fondo de Desarrollo de Areas Prioritarias (FONDAP) Center for Genome Regulation [15090007]
- Millennium Nucleus Center for Plant Systems and Synthetic Biology [NC130030]
- Fondo Nacional de Desarrollo Cientifico y Tecnologico (FONDECYT) [1141097]
- FONDECYT [11150070]
- FONDECYT Postdoctoral scholarship [3140336]
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Root hairs are specialized cells that are important for nutrient uptake. It is well established that nutrients such as phosphate have a great influence on root hair development in many plant species. Here we investigated the role of nitrate on root hair development at a physiological and molecular level. We showed that nitrate increases root hair density in Arabidopsis thaliana. We found that two different root hair defective mutants have significantly less nitrate than wild-type plants, suggesting that in A.thaliana root hairs have an important role in the capacity to acquire nitrate. Nitrate reductase-null mutants exhibited nitrate-dependent root hair phenotypes comparable with wild-type plants, indicating that nitrate is the signal that leads to increased formation of root hairs. We examined the role of two key regulators of root hair cell fate, CPC and WER, in response to nitrate treatments. Phenotypic analyses of these mutants showed that CPC is essential for nitrate-induced responses of root hair development. Moreover, we showed that NRT1.1 and TGA1/TGA4 are required for pathways that induce root hair development by suppression of longitudinal elongation of trichoblast cells in response to nitrate treatments. Our results prompted a model where nitrate signaling via TGA1/TGA4 directly regulates the CPC root hair cell fate specification gene to increase formation of root hairs in A.thaliana.
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