Too many faces for TOO MANY MOUTHS?
Too many faces for TOO MANY MOUTHS?
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DOI:
10.1111/nph.13827
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发表时间:
2016-05-01
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9.4
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Mena, Montana
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作者:
de Marcos, Alberto;Trivino, Magdalena;Mena, Montana
Stomatal physiology has attracted plant scientists for many decades. However, it is only recently that their attention has turned to the study of how these structures differentiate from the protodermal cells, and how functional spatial patterns in mature leaves and other aerial organs emerge. Our understanding of stomatal development has advanced enormously in the last 20 yr, thanks to the adoption of Arabidopsis thaliana as a model species. The first genes involved in stomatal development were identified in A. thaliana by Yang & Sack (1995), in a forward genetic screen through the leaf epidermal phenotype of mutants that had lost the correct stomatal spacing. One of these mutants produced overabundant stomata grouped in striking clusters. The locus whose loss of function produced this phenotype thus deserved the striking name given to it: TOO MANY MOUTHS (TMM). Yang & Sack (1995) also identified a second mutant that produced paired stomata and named the locus FOUR LIPS. The nomenclature established by this seminal work, undertaken by Fred Sack’s laboratory, has been pervasive in the field of stomatal development, and most of the genes identified since then have received sonorous names stressing the view of the stomata as ‘mouths’ of the plant.In their pioneering work, Sack and his colleague described the course of stomatal development in A. thaliana, based on prior work in other species (Paliwal, 1967; Sachs & Novoplansky, 1993), and thus established the current view of the process (see Supporting Information Fig. S1). A protodermal cell acquires the identity of a meristemoid mother cell (MMC) and divides asymmetrically, producing a small cell, the meristemoid, which behaves as a stem cell and becomes the founder of a stomatal cell lineage. Up to three asymmetric divisions, oriented in an inward spiral, place the meristemoid at the centre of a structure (the stomatal complex) formed by the larger sister cells, which will eventually differentiate as pavement cells or become MMCs, initiating a satellite stomatal lineage. Eventually, the meristemoid stops dividing and transits to a guard mother cell, committed to a final symmetric division whose result is the guard cell pair that differentiate to form the stoma. Among the various cells in the lineage, meristemoids and guard mother cells are collectively referred to as stomatal precursor cells. On the basis of the tmm cotyledon and leaf phenotype, Yang & Sack (1995) proposed that TMM restricts meristemoid production, prevents its