Nature Communications (Feb 2018)

Spatial specificity of auxin responses coordinates wood formation

  • Klaus Brackmann,
  • Jiyan Qi,
  • Michael Gebert,
  • Virginie Jouannet,
  • Theresa Schlamp,
  • Karin Grünwald,
  • Eva-Sophie Wallner,
  • Daria D. Novikova,
  • Victor G. Levitsky,
  • Javier Agustí,
  • Pablo Sanchez,
  • Jan U. Lohmann,
  • Thomas Greb

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-03256-2
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 15

Abstract

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Auxin activity controls plant stem cell function. Here the authors show that in the cambium, moderate auxin activity restricts cambial stem cell number via ARF5-dependent repression of the stem‐cell‐promoting factor WOX4, while ARF3 and ARF4 promote cambial activity outside of the WOX4‐expression domain.