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PLANT SIGNALING & BEHAVIOR
Volume 3, Issue 7, Pages 450-452Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS INC
DOI: 10.4161/psb.3.7.5577
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Arabidopsis; axillary shoot; cis element; co-regulation; growth activation; microarray analysis; ribosomal protein genes; seed; TCP transcription factors; genome-wide gene expression analysis
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Plant growth is regulated by internal and external cues using a limited number of genes coded in the genome. Comparative transcriptome analysis often provides an indication of which particular sets of genes are co-regulated in different physiological events. We have recently reported that protein synthesis-related genes were highly overrepresented in the genes upregulated during germination in Arabidopsis. In particular, these included similar to 100 ribosomal protein (RP) genes. The promoters of these genes had a higher frequency of two cis elements, designated as Up1 and Up2. Up1 is almost identical to the target cis element of TCP transcription factors. We also found that a similar set of RP genes is upregulated during decapitation-induced axillary shoot outgrowth. Thus, Up1-mediated activation of RP genes appears to be a common mechanism for growth induction in axillary shoots and imbibed seed. Moreover, co-regulation of a large number of RP genes suggests that these genes are useful markers to monitor growth states for microarray analyses.
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