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PLANT PHYSIOLOGY
Volume 174, Issue 2, Pages 624-638Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS INC
DOI: 10.1104/pp.17.00183
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- Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council
- Newton Fund-Mexican Academy of Sciences-Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnologia
- BBSRC [BB/N013646/1, BB/I002154/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council [BB/I002154/1, BB/N013646/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- Natural Environment Research Council [1241768] Funding Source: researchfish
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The fossil record suggests stomata-like pores were present on the surfaces of land plants over 400 million years ago. Whether stomata arose once or whether they arose independently across newly evolving land plant lineages has long been a matter of debate. In Arabidopsis, a genetic toolbox has been identified that tightly controls stomatal development and patterning. This includes the basic helix-loop-helix (bHLH) transcription factors SPEECHLESS (SPCH), MUTE, FAMA, and ICE/SCREAMs (SCRMs), which promote stomatal formation. These factors are regulated via a signaling cascade, which includes mobile EPIDERMAL PATTERNING FACTOR (EPF) peptides to enforce stomatal spacing. Mosses and hornworts, the most ancient extant lineages to possess stomata, possess orthologs of these Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana) stomatal toolbox genes, and manipulation in the model bryophyte Physcomitrella patens has shown that the bHLH and EPF components are also required for moss stomatal development and patterning. This supports an ancient and tightly conserved genetic origin of stomata. Here, we review recent discoveries and, by interrogating newly available plant genomes, we advance the story of stomatal development and patterning across land plant evolution. Furthermore, we identify potential orthologs of the key toolbox genes in a hornwort, further supporting a single ancient genetic origin of stomata in the ancestor to all stomatous land plants.
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