Plant proximity perception dynamically modulates hormone levels and sensitivity in Arabidopsis
Bou Torrent, Jordi (Centre de Recerca en Agrigenòmica)
Galstyan, Anahit (Centre de Recerca en Agrigenòmica)
Gallemí Rovira, Marçal (Centre de Recerca en Agrigenòmica)
Cifuentes-Esquivel, Nicolás (Centre de Recerca en Agrigenòmica)
Molina-Contreras, Maria José (Centre de Recerca en Agrigenòmica)
Salla-Martret, Mercè (Centre de Recerca en Agrigenòmica)
Jikumaru, Yusuke (RIKEN Plant Science Center)
Yamaguchi, Shinjiro (RIKEN Plant Science Center)
Kamiya, Yuji (RIKEN Plant Science Center)
Martínez-García, Jaime F. (Centre de Recerca en Agrigenòmica)

Date:	2014
Abstract:	Shade perception involves altered hormone synthesis and sensitivity. Here, we showed that several shade regulators act as positive and negative modulators of the hypocotyl auxin and/or brassinosteroid-induced elongation. The s hade a voidance s yndrome (SAS) refers to a set of plant responses initiated after perception by the phytochromes of light enriched in far-red colour reflected from or filtered by neighbouring plants. These varied responses are aimed at anticipating eventual shading from potential competitor vegetation. In Arabidopsis thaliana, the most obvious SAS response at the seedling stage is the increase in hypocotyl elongation. Here, we describe how plant proximity perception rapidly and temporally alters the levels of not only auxins but also active brassinosteroids and gibberellins. At the same time, shade alters the seedling sensitivity to hormones. Plant proximity perception also involves dramatic changes in gene expression that rapidly result in a new balance between positive and negative factors in a network of interacting basic helix-loop-helix proteins, such as HFR1, PAR1, and BIM and BEE factors. Here, it was shown that several of these factors act as auxin- and BR-responsiveness modulators, which ultimately control the intensity or degree of hypocotyl elongation. It was deduced that, as a consequence of the plant proximity-dependent new, dynamic, and local balance between hormone synthesis and sensitivity (mechanistically resulting from a restructured network of SAS regulators), SAS responses are unleashed and hypocotyls elongate.
Note:	Número d'acord de subvenció MINECO/BIO2011-23489
Note:	Número d'acord de subvenció MINECO/BIO2008-00169
Note:	Número d'acord de subvenció MINECO/CSD2007-00036
Note:	Número d'acord de subvenció AGAUR/2009/SGR-697
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Language:	Anglès
Document:	article ; recerca ; publishedVersion
Subject:	Arabidopsis ; Auxins ; Brassinosteroids ; Gibberellins ; Hypocotyl elongation ; Plant proximity ; Shade avoidance syndrome
Published in:	Journal of experimental botany, Vol. 65, no. 11 (2014) , p. 2937-2947, ISSN 1460-2431

DOI: 10.1093/jxb/eru083
PMID: 24609653

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