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ArticleThe New phytologist2022

Dependence on clade II bHLH transcription factors for nursing of haploid products by tapetal-like cells is conserved between moss sporangia and angiosperm anthers.

Mauricio Lopez-Obando, Katarina Landberg, Eva Sundberg, Mattias Thelander

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Article in The New phytologist, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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5 citing papers in PubMed, 16 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

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4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Mauricio Lopez-ObandoDepartment of Plant Biology, The Linnean Centre of Plant Biology in Uppsala, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, PO Box 7080, Uppsala, SE-75007, Sweden.ORCID 0000-0002-1380-0643
Katarina LandbergDepartment of Plant Biology, The Linnean Centre of Plant Biology in Uppsala, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, PO Box 7080, Uppsala, SE-75007, Sweden.ORCID 0000-0002-2945-8571
Eva SundbergDepartment of Plant Biology, The Linnean Centre of Plant Biology in Uppsala, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, PO Box 7080, Uppsala, SE-75007, Sweden.ORCID 0000-0003-4228-434X
Mattias ThelanderDepartment of Plant Biology, The Linnean Centre of Plant Biology in Uppsala, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, PO Box 7080, Uppsala, SE-75007, Sweden.ORCID 0000-0002-6663-7405
Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences · SE

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Clade II basic helix-loop-helix transcription factors (bHLH TFs) are essential for pollen production and tapetal nursing functions in angiosperm anthers. As pollen has been suggested to be related to bryophyte spores by descent, we characterized two Physcomitrium (Physcomitrella) patens clade II bHLH TFs (PpbHLH092 and PpbHLH098), to test if regulation of sporogenous cells and the nursing cells surrounding them is conserved between angiosperm anthers and bryophyte sporangia. We made CRISPR-Cas9 reporter and loss-of-function lines to address the function of PpbHLH092/098. We sectioned and analyzed WT and mutant sporophytes for a comprehensive stage-by-stage comparison of sporangium development. Spore precursors in the P. patens sporangium are surrounded by nursing cells showing striking similarities to tapetal cells in angiosperms. Moss clade II bHLH TFs are essential for the differentiation of these tapetal-like cells and for the production of functional spores. Clade II bHLH TFs provide a conserved role in controlling the sporophytic somatic cells surrounding and nursing the sporogenous cells in both moss sporangia and angiosperm anthers. This supports the hypothesis that such nursing functions in mosses and angiosperms, lineages separated by c. 450 million years, are related by descent.

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BryopsidaMagnoliopsidaBasic Helix-Loop-Helix ProteinsGene Expression Regulation, PlantHaploidyPlant ProteinsSporangiaSpores, FungalBasic Helix-Loop-Helix ProteinsPlant Proteinsbasic helix-loop-helixbryophytesmossPhyscomitrium patenssporangiumsporogenesistapetumtranscription factor

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PMID35037245
PMCPMC9306660
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