Nature Communications (Jan 2020)

Auxin-dependent control of a plasmodesmal regulator creates a negative feedback loop modulating lateral root emergence

  • Ross Sager,
  • Xu Wang,
  • Kristine Hill,
  • Byung-Chun Yoo,
  • Jeffery Caplan,
  • Alex Nedo,
  • Thu Tran,
  • Malcolm J. Bennett,
  • Jung-Youn Lee

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-14226-7
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Auxin promotes lateral root emergence from pericycle cells in the root vasculature. Here the authors show that induction of the plasmodesmal regulator PDLP5 during lateral root emergence restricts the spatial scope of auxin signaling to the cells overlying the primordia.