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Growth directions and stiffness across cell layers determine whether tissues stay smooth or buckle.
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- Growth-rate coordination across the width of a leaf preserves its flatness.PLoS biology · 2026Article
- Self-organization underlies developmental robustness in plants.Cells & development · 2025Review
- JAG modulates sepal flatness by regulating cell growth direction, interacts with AS2, and is antagonized by TCP24.Cell reports · 2025Article
- Brassinosteroids mediate proper coordination of sepal elongation.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- Modulation of cell differentiation and growth underlies the shift from bud protection to light capture in cauline leaves.Plant physiology · 2024Article
- An optimized live imaging and growth analysis approach for Arabidopsis Sepals.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2024Article
- An optimized live imaging and multiple cell layer growth analysis approach using Arabidopsis sepals.Frontiers in plant science · 2024Article
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Nature exhibits organs of various shapes and forms, ranging from smooth to undulated morphologies. How cells coordinate their growth to produce smoothly shaped leaves and leaf-like organs such as sepals remains unclear. We identified a mutant, as2-7D, that exhibits ectopic expression of ASYMMETRIC LEAVES 2 (AS2) on the outer epidermis. Our analysis reveals that ectopic AS2 expression causes the outer epidermis of as2-7D sepals to buckle during early stages of sepal development. Buckling is caused by conflicting cell growth directions and unequal tissue stiffness across the epidermal layers. Overexpression of cyclin-dependent kinase (CDK) inhibitor Kip-related protein 1 (KRP1) in as2-7D aligns the growth directions of the outer epidermal cells along the longitudinal axis, increases the overall stiffness of the outer epidermis, and restores sepal smoothness. Further experiments suggest that buckling promotes the convergence of auxin efflux transporter protein PIN-FORMED 1 (PIN1) to initiate pointed outgrowths. Thus, we show that growth along the longitudinal axis during early developmental stages and comparable stiffness across both epidermal layers of Arabidopsis thaliana sepals are essential for smoothness, as seen in the wild type. Our findings suggest that in addition to molecular cues influencing tissue mechanics, tissue mechanics can also modulate molecular signals, giving rise to well-defined shapes.
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