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ArticleBMC plant biology2007

Evolutionary conservation of plant gibberellin signalling pathway components.

Filip Vandenbussche, Ana C Fierro, Gertrud Wiedemann, Ralf Reski, Dominique Van Der Straeten

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Article in BMC plant biology, 2007. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 36 papers.

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5 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Filip VandenbusscheUnit Plant Hormone Signaling & Bio-imaging, Department of Molecular Genetics, Ghent University, Ledeganckstraat 35, B-9000 Ghent, Belgium. Filip.Vandenbussche@ugent.be
Ana C Fierro
Gertrud Wiedemann
Ralf Reski
Dominique Van Der Straeten
Ghent University · BEUniversity of Freiburg · DEKU Leuven · BE

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundGibberellins (GA) are plant hormones that can regulate germination, elongation growth, and sex determination. They ubiquitously occur in seed plants. The discovery of gibberellin receptors, together with advances in understanding the function of key components of GA signalling in Arabidopsis and rice, reveal a fairly short GA signal transduction route. The pathway essentially consists of GID1 gibberellin receptors that interact with F-box proteins, which in turn regulate degradation of downstream DELLA proteins, suppressors of GA-controlled responses.

resultsArabidopsis sequences of the gibberellin signalling compounds were used to screen databases from a variety of plants, including protists, for homologues, providing indications for the degree of conservation of the pathway. The pathway as such appears completely absent in protists, the moss Physcomitrella patens shares only a limited homology with the Arabidopsis proteins, thus lacking essential characteristics of the classical GA signalling pathway, while the lycophyte Selaginella moellendorffii contains a possible ortholog for each component. The occurrence of classical GA responses can as yet not be linked with the presence of homologues of the signalling pathway. Alignments and display in neighbour joining trees of the GA signalling components confirm the close relationship of gymnosperms, monocotyledonous and dicotyledonous plants, as suggested from previous studies.

conclusionHomologues of the GA-signalling pathway were mainly found in vascular plants. The GA signalling system may have its evolutionary molecular onset in Physcomitrella patens, where GAs at higher concentrations affect gravitropism and elongation growth.

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Evolution, MolecularAmino Acid SequenceBryopsidaComputational BiologyDatabases, GeneticGene Expression Regulation, PlantGibberellinsMolecular Sequence DataPhylogenyPlant ProteinsPlant StructuresReceptors, Cell SurfaceSequence Homology, Amino AcidSignal TransductionGibberellinsPlant ProteinsReceptors, Cell Surface

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PMID18047669
PMCPMC2234411
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