ArticleCurrent biology : CB2023
Reproductive competence is regulated independently of vegetative phase change in Arabidopsis thaliana.
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Abstract
A long-standing question in plant biology is how the acquisition of reproductive competence is related to the juvenile-to-adult vegetative transition. We addressed this question by examining the expression pattern and mutant phenotypes of two families of miRNAs-miR156/miR157 and miR172-that operate in the same pathway and play important roles in these processes. The phenotype of mutants deficient for miR156/miR157, miR172, and all three miRNAs demonstrated that miR156/miR157 regulate the timing of vegetative phase change but have only a minor effect on reproductive competence, whereas miR172 has a minor role in vegetative phase change but has a major effect on reproductive competence. MIR172B is directly downstream of the miR156/SPL module, but temporal variation in the level of miR156 in the shoot apex and leaf-to-leaf variation in miR156 expression in young primordia was not associated with a change in the level of miR172 in these tissues. Additionally, although miR172 levels increase from leaf to leaf later in leaf development, this variation is largely insensitive to changes in the abundance of miR156. Our results indicate that the acquisition of reproductive competence in Arabidopsis is regulated by miR172 through a mechanism that is independent of the vegetative phase change pathway.
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