An Arabidopsis AT-hook motif nuclear protein mediates somatic embryogenesis and coinciding genome duplication

Omid Karami; Arezoo Rahimi; Patrick Mak; Anneke Horstman; Kim Boutilier; Monique Compier; Bert van der Zaal; Remko Offringa

doi:10.1038/s41467-021-22815-8

Nature Communications (May 2021)

An Arabidopsis AT-hook motif nuclear protein mediates somatic embryogenesis and coinciding genome duplication

Omid Karami,
Arezoo Rahimi,
Patrick Mak,
Anneke Horstman,
Kim Boutilier,
Monique Compier,
Bert van der Zaal,
Remko Offringa

Affiliations

Omid Karami: Plant Developmental Genetics, Institute of Biology Leiden, Leiden University
Arezoo Rahimi: Plant Developmental Genetics, Institute of Biology Leiden, Leiden University
Patrick Mak: Plant Developmental Genetics, Institute of Biology Leiden, Leiden University
Anneke Horstman: Bioscience, Wageningen University and Research
Kim Boutilier: Bioscience, Wageningen University and Research
Monique Compier: Plant Developmental Genetics, Institute of Biology Leiden, Leiden University
Bert van der Zaal: Plant Developmental Genetics, Institute of Biology Leiden, Leiden University
Remko Offringa: Plant Developmental Genetics, Institute of Biology Leiden, Leiden University

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-22815-8
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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Plant somatic embryogenesis (SE) can be triggered by hormone application or overexpression of certain transcription factors such as BBM. Here Karami et al. show that AHL15 is required for induction of downstream BBM targets and promotes heterochromatin decondensation and endomitosis during the induction of SE.

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ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
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Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
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