Nature Communications (Oct 2017)

Fine-tuning of auxin homeostasis governs the transition from floral stem cell maintenance to gynoecium formation

  • Nobutoshi Yamaguchi,
  • Jiangbo Huang,
  • Yifeng Xu,
  • Keitaro Tanoi,
  • Toshiro Ito

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-01252-6
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 15

Abstract

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In Arabidopsis, the timing of floral meristem termination is determined by AGAMOUS. Here, the authors show that the CRC transcription factor, itself a direct target of AGAMOUS, coordinates meristem termination with subsequent gynoecium formation partly by repressing TRN2 expression and regulating auxin homeostasis.