Journal
NEW PHYTOLOGIST
Volume 219, Issue 4, Pages 1216-1223Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/nph.15332
Keywords
AUX1; auxin; Brachypodium; monocotyledon; seminal root
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- Swiss National Science Foundation [CR32I3_156724]
- SystemsX
- CEPLAS (Cluster of Excellence on Plant Sciences - Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft) [EXC1028]
- Swedish Governmental Agency for Innovation Systems (VINNOVA)
- Swedish Research Council (VR)
- Office of Science of the US Department of Energy [DE-AC02-05CH11231]
- Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF) [CR32I3_156724] Funding Source: Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF)
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Targeted cellular auxin distribution is required for morphogenesis and adaptive responses of plant organs. In Arabidopsis thaliana (Arabidopsis), this involves the prototypical auxin influx facilitator AUX1 and its LIKE-AUX1 (LAX) homologs, which act partially redundantly in various developmental processes. Interestingly, AUX1 and its homologs are not strictly essential for the Arabidopsis life cycle. Indeed, aux1 lax1 lax2 lax3 quadruple knock-outs are mostly viable and fertile, and strong phenotypes are only observed at low penetrance. Here we investigated the Brachypodium distachyon (Brachypodium) AUX1 homolog BdAUX1 by genetic, cell biological and physiological analyses. We report that BdAUX1 is essential for Brachypodium development. Bdaux1 loss-of-function mutants are dwarfs with aberrant flower development, and consequently infertile. Moreover, they display a counter-intuitive root phenotype. Although Bdaux1 roots are agravitropic as expected, in contrast to Arabidopsis aux1 mutants they are dramatically longer than wild type roots because of exaggerated cell elongation. Interestingly, this correlates with higher free auxin content in Bdaux1 roots. Consistently, their cell wall characteristics and transcriptome signature largely phenocopy other Brachypodium mutants with increased root auxin content. Our results imply fundamentally different wiring of auxin transport in Brachypodium roots and reveal an essential role of BdAUX1 in a broad spectrum of developmental processes, suggesting a central role for AUX1 in pooideae.
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