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ArticleDevelopment (Cambridge, England)2013

WOX4 and WOX14 act downstream of the PXY receptor kinase to regulate plant vascular proliferation independently of any role in vascular organisation.

J Peter Etchells, Claire M Provost, Laxmi Mishra, Simon R Turner

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Article in Development (Cambridge, England), 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 141 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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141citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
29.1field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

141 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 372 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

J Peter EtchellsUniversity of Manchester, Faculty of Life Sciences, Manchester M13 9PT, UK.
Claire M Provost
Laxmi Mishra
Simon R Turner
University of Manchester · GB

Funding

Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BB/C511064/1Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BB/H019928Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BB/H019928/1
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In plants, the cambium and procambium are meristems from which vascular tissue is derived. In contrast to most plant cells, stem cells within these tissues are thin and extremely long. They are particularly unusual as they divide down their long axis in a highly ordered manner, parallel to the tangential axis of the stem. CLAVATA3-LIKE/ESR-RELATED 41 (CLE41) and PHLOEM INTERCALATED WITH XYLEM (PXY) are a multifunctional ligand-receptor pair that regulate vascular cell division, vascular organisation and xylem differentiation in vascular tissue. A transcription factor gene, WUSCHEL HOMEOBOX RELATED 4 (WOX4) has been shown to act downstream of PXY. Here we show that WOX4 acts redundantly with WOX14 in the regulation of vascular cell division, but that these genes have no function in regulating vascular organisation. Furthermore, we identify an interaction between PXY and the receptor kinase ERECTA (ER) that affects the organisation of the vascular tissue but not the rate of cell division, suggesting that cell division and vascular organisation are genetically separable. Our observations also support a model whereby tissue organisation and cell division are integrated via PXY and ER signalling, which together coordinate development of different cell types that are essential for normal stem formation.

Indexed as

Arabidopsis ProteinsCambiumCell DivisionCell MembraneCrosses, GeneticGene Expression ProfilingGene Expression Regulation, PlantHomeodomain ProteinsLigandsMutationPhenotypePhloemProtein KinasesProtein Serine-Threonine KinasesReceptors, Cell SurfaceSignal TransductionArabidopsis ProteinsER protein, ArabidopsisHomeodomain ProteinsLigandsProtein KinasesProtein Serine-Threonine KinasesPXY protein, ArabidopsisReceptors, Cell SurfaceWOX14 protein, ArabidopsisWOX4 protein, Arabidopsis

Identifiers

PMID23578929
PMCPMC3912870
OpenAlexW2162974903

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