ArticlePlant physiology2004
Reorganization and in vivo dynamics of microtubules during Arabidopsis root hair development.
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- The TOR-Auxin Connection Upstream of Root Hair Growth.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Review
- Spatiotemporal cytoskeleton organizations determine morphogenesis of multicellular trichomes in tomato.PLoS genetics · 2019Article
- Effects of glucose and ethylene on root hair initiation and elongation in lettuce (Lactuca sativa L.) seedlings.Journal of plant research · 2018Article
- Interplay between Ions, the Cytoskeleton, and Cell Wall Properties during Tip Growth.Plant physiology · 2018Review
- CORTICAL MICROTUBULE DISORDERING1 Is Required for Secondary Cell Wall Patterning in Xylem Vessels.The Plant cell · 2017Article
- Plant ER geometry and dynamics: biophysical and cytoskeletal control during growth and biotic response.Protoplasma · 2017Review
- A GTPase-Dependent Fine ER Is Required for Localized Secretion in Polarized Growth of Root Hairs1.Plant physiology · 2016Article
- Microtubules in Plant Cells: Strategies and Methods for Immunofluorescence, Transmission Electron Microscopy, and Live Cell Imaging.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2016Article
- Root hair growth: it's a one way street.F1000prime reports · 2015Review
- Microtubule array formation during root hair infection thread initiation and elongation in the Mesorhizobium-Lotus symbiosis.Protoplasma · 2014Article
- The microtubule plus-end tracking protein ARMADILLO-REPEAT KINESIN1 promotes microtubule catastrophe in Arabidopsis.The Plant cell · 2014Article
- Root hairs.The arabidopsis book · 2014Article
- Nuclei in motion: movement and positioning of plant nuclei in development, signaling, symbiosis, and disease.Frontiers in plant science · 2014Review
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Abstract
Root hairs emerge from epidermal root cells (trichoblasts) and differentiate by highly localized tip growth. Microtubules (MTs) are essential for establishing and maintaining the growth polarity of root hairs. The current knowledge about the configuration of the MT cytoskeleton during root hair development is largely based on experiments on fixed material, and reorganization and in vivo dynamics of MTs during root hair development is at present unclear. This in vivo study provides new insights into the mechanisms of MT (re)organization during root hair development in Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana). Expression of a binding site of the MT-associated protein-4 tagged with green fluorescent protein enabled imaging of MT nucleation, growth, and shortening and revealed distinct MT configurations. Depending on the dynamics of the different MT populations during root hair development, either repeated two-dimensional (x, y, t) or repeated three-dimensional (x, y, z, t) scanning was performed. Furthermore, a new image evaluation tool was developed to reveal important data on MT instability. The data show how MTs reorient after apparent contact with other MTs and support a model for MT alignment based on repeated reorientation of dynamic MT growth.
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