Nature Communications (Apr 2016)

SCFSAP controls organ size by targeting PPD proteins for degradation in Arabidopsis thaliana

  • Zhibiao Wang,
  • Na Li,
  • Shan Jiang,
  • Nathalie Gonzalez,
  • Xiahe Huang,
  • Yingchun Wang,
  • Dirk Inzé,
  • Yunhai Li

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms11192
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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Organ size in plants is regulated by cell proliferation and cell expansion. Here, Wang et al. show that STERILE APETALA participates in the regulation of organ size as a component of an E3 ligase complex that promotes the degradation of negative regulators of meristemoid proliferation