Nature Communications (Nov 2016)

Arabidopsis seed germination speed is controlled by SNL histone deacetylase-binding factor-mediated regulation of AUX1

  • Zhi Wang,
  • Fengying Chen,
  • Xiaoying Li,
  • Hong Cao,
  • Meng Ding,
  • Cun Zhang,
  • Jinghong Zuo,
  • Chaonan Xu,
  • Jimei Xu,
  • Xin Deng,
  • Yong Xiang,
  • Wim J. J. Soppe,
  • Yongxiu Liu

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms13412
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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Histone acetylation influences the speed of seed germination. Here, Wang et al. show that loss of the SNL1/SNL2 histone deacetylase binding factors accelerates seed germination and provide evidence that they act by regulating the expression of AUX1which in turn influences cell division.