ReviewPlant molecular biology2021
Quantitative cell biology of tip growth in moss.
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- A surface morphology-based inference method for the cell wall elasticity profile in tip-growing cells.PLoS computational biology · 2026Article
- The secreted redox sensor roGFP2-Orp1 reveals oxidative dynamics in the plant apoplast.Plant biology (Stuttgart, Germany) · 2026Article
- Phosphoinositide Signaling and Actin Polymerization Are Critical for Tip Growth in the Marine Red AlgaPlants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Differential sensitivity of ADF isovariants to a pH gradient promotes pollen tube growth.The Journal of cell biology · 2023Article
- Kinesin-4 optimizes microtubule orientations for responsive tip growth guidance in moss.The Journal of cell biology · 2023Article
- Armadillo repeat-containing kinesin represents the versatile plus-end-directed transporter in Physcomitrella.Nature plants · 2023Article
- At the Nexus between Cytoskeleton and Vacuole: How Plant Cytoskeletons Govern the Dynamics of Large Vacuoles.International journal of molecular sciences · 2023Review
- Bioimaging tools move plant physiology studies forward.Frontiers in plant science · 2022Article
- Two Is Company, but Four Is a Party-Challenges of Tetraploidization for Cell Wall Dynamics and Efficient Tip-Growth in Pollen.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Review
- Molecular biology of mosses.Plant molecular biology · 2021Article
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Abstract
key messageHere we review, from a quantitative point of view, the cell biology of protonemal tip growth in the model moss Physcomitrium patens. We focus on the role of the cytoskeleton, vesicle trafficking, and cell wall mechanics, including reviewing some of the existing mathematical models of tip growth. We provide a primer for existing cell biological tools that can be applied to the future study of tip growth in moss. Polarized cell growth is a ubiquitous process throughout the plant kingdom in which the cell elongates in a self-similar manner. This process is important for nutrient uptake by root hairs, fertilization by pollen, and gametophyte development by the protonemata of bryophytes and ferns. In this review, we will focus on the tip growth of moss cells, emphasizing the role of cytoskeletal organization, cytoplasmic zonation, vesicle trafficking, cell wall composition, and dynamics. We compare some of the existing knowledge on tip growth in protonemata against what is known in pollen tubes and root hairs, which are better-studied tip growing cells. To fully understand how plant cells grow requires that we deepen our knowledge in a variety of forms of plant cell growth. We focus this review on the model plant Physcomitrium patens, which uses tip growth as the dominant form of growth at its protonemal stage. Because mosses and vascular plants shared a common ancestor more than 450 million years ago, we anticipate that both similarities and differences between tip growing plant cells will provide mechanistic information of tip growth as well as of plant cell growth in general. Towards this mechanistic understanding, we will also review some of the existing mathematical models of plant tip growth and their applicability to investigate protonemal morphogenesis. We attempt to integrate the conclusions and data across cell biology and physical modeling to our current state of knowledge of polarized cell growth in P. patens and highlight future directions in the field.
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