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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2021

Suberin plasticity to developmental and exogenous cues is regulated by a set of MYB transcription factors.

Vinay Shukla, Jian-Pu Han, Fabienne Cléard, Linnka Lefebvre-Legendre, Kay Gully, Paulina Flis, Alice Berhin, Tonni G Andersen, David E Salt, Christiane Nawrath and 1 more

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 65 papers.

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11 authors at 1 institution in 2 countries.

Vinay ShuklaDepartment of Botany and Plant Biology, University of Geneva, 1211 Geneva, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0002-7838-8565
Jian-Pu HanDepartment of Botany and Plant Biology, University of Geneva, 1211 Geneva, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0002-7289-1856
Fabienne CléardDepartment of Botany and Plant Biology, University of Geneva, 1211 Geneva, Switzerland.
Linnka Lefebvre-LegendreDepartment of Botany and Plant Biology, University of Geneva, 1211 Geneva, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0001-7827-0834
Kay GullyDepartment of Molecular Plant Biology, University of Lausanne, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0001-7968-3059
Paulina FlisFuture Food Beacon of Excellence and School of Biosciences, University of Nottingham, NG7 2RD Nottingham, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0002-5529-7599
Alice BerhinDepartment of Molecular Plant Biology, University of Lausanne, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0002-5214-6533
Tonni G AndersenDepartment of Molecular Plant Biology, University of Lausanne, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0002-8905-0850
David E SaltFuture Food Beacon of Excellence and School of Biosciences, University of Nottingham, NG7 2RD Nottingham, United Kingdom.
Christiane NawrathDepartment of Molecular Plant Biology, University of Lausanne, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0003-1470-8459
Marie BarberonDepartment of Botany and Plant Biology, University of Geneva, 1211 Geneva, Switzerland; marie.barberon@unige.ch.
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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Suberin is a hydrophobic biopolymer that can be deposited at the periphery of cells, forming protective barriers against biotic and abiotic stress. In roots, suberin forms lamellae at the periphery of endodermal cells where it plays crucial roles in the control of water and mineral transport. Suberin formation is highly regulated by developmental and environmental cues. However, the mechanisms controlling its spatiotemporal regulation are poorly understood. Here, we show that endodermal suberin is regulated independently by developmental and exogenous signals to fine-tune suberin deposition in roots. We found a set of four MYB transcription factors (MYB41, MYB53, MYB92, and MYB93), each of which is individually regulated by these two signals and is sufficient to promote endodermal suberin. Mutation of these four transcription factors simultaneously through genome editing leads to a dramatic reduction in suberin formation in response to both developmental and environmental signals. Most suberin mutants analyzed at physiological levels are also affected in another endodermal barrier made of lignin (Casparian strips) through a compensatory mechanism. Through the functional analysis of these four MYBs, we generated plants allowing unbiased investigation of endodermal suberin function, without accounting for confounding effects due to Casparian strip defects, and were able to unravel specific roles of suberin in nutrient homeostasis.

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ArabidopsisArabidopsis ProteinsLipidsProto-Oncogene Proteins c-mybTranscription FactorsArabidopsis ProteinsLipidsProto-Oncogene Proteins c-mybsuberinTranscription FactorsABACIFendodermisrootsuberin

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