Roles of very-long-chain fatty acids in compound leaf patterning in Medicago truncatula
Roles of very-long-chain fatty acids in compound leaf patterning in Medicago truncatula
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极长链脂肪酸在蒺藜苜蓿复合叶型中的作用
DOI:
10.1093/plphys/kiad006
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发表时间:
2023
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影响因子:
7.4
通讯作者:
Chuanen Zhou
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作者:
Hongfeng Wang;Zhichao Lu;Yiteng Xu;Jing Zhang;Lu Han;Maofeng Chai;Zeng-Yu Wang;Xianpeng Yang;Shiyou Lu;Jianhua Tong;Langtao Xiao;Jiangqi Wen;Kirankumar S Mysore;Chuanen Zhou
Abstract. Plant cuticles are composed of hydrophobic cuticular waxes and cutin. Very long-chain fatty acids (VLCFAs) are components of epidermal waxes and the plasma membrane and are involved in organ morphogenesis. By screening a barrelclover (Medicago truncatula) mutant population tagged by the transposable element of tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum) cell type1 (Tnt1), we identified two types of mutants with unopened flower phenotypes, named unopened flower1 (uof1) and uof2. Both UOF1 and UOF2 encode enzymes that are involved in the biosynthesis of VLCFAs and cuticular wax. Comparative analysis of the mutants indicated that the mutation in UOF1, but not UOF2, leads to increased number of leaflets in M. truncatula. UOF1 was specifically expressed in the outermost cell layer (L1) of the shoot apical meristem (SAM) and leaf primordia. The uof1 mutants displayed defects in VLCFAs-mediated plasma membrane integrity, resulting in the disordered localization of the PIN-FORMED1 (PIN1) ortholog SMOOTH LEAF MARGIN1 (SLM1) in M. truncatula. Our work demonstrates that the UOF1-mediated biosynthesis of VLCFAs in L1 is critical for compound leaf patterning, which is associated with the polarization of the auxin efflux carrier in M. truncatula.