Nature Communications (May 2020)

SYNERGISTIC ON AUXIN AND CYTOKININ 1 positively regulates growth and attenuates soil pathogen resistance

  • Andrej Hurný,
  • Candela Cuesta,
  • Nicola Cavallari,
  • Krisztina Ötvös,
  • Jerome Duclercq,
  • Ladislav Dokládal,
  • Juan Carlos Montesinos,
  • Marçal Gallemí,
  • Hana Semerádová,
  • Thomas Rauter,
  • Irene Stenzel,
  • Geert Persiau,
  • Freia Benade,
  • Rishikesh Bhalearo,
  • Eva Sýkorová,
  • András Gorzsás,
  • Julien Sechet,
  • Gregory Mouille,
  • Ingo Heilmann,
  • Geert De Jaeger,
  • Jutta Ludwig-Müller,
  • Eva Benková

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-15895-5
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 17

Abstract

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Cytokinin and auxin are two major hormonal regulators of plant growth. Here the authors identify SYAC1, a gene that is synergistically activated by the two hormones being applied together, and show that it is required for normal growth while negatively impacting pathogen resistance.