1. A Light-Regulated Genetic Module Was Recruited to Carpel Development in Arabidopsis following a Structural Change to SPATULA
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Françoise Monéger, Aurélie Chauvet, Mathieu C. Reymond, Jaime F. Martínez-García, Géraldine Brunoud, Marie-Laure Martin-Magniette, Charles P. Scutt, Reproduction et développement des plantes (RDP), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)-École normale supérieure - Lyon (ENS Lyon), Univ Autonoma Barcelona, Consejo Super Invest Cient, Inst Recerca & Tecnol Agroalimentaries,Inst Catal, Universitat de Barcelona (UB), Unité de recherche en génomique végétale (URGV), Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)-Université d'Évry-Val-d'Essonne (UEVE)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Mathématiques et Informatique Appliquées (MIA-Paris), AgroParisTech-Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA), Genoplante and the French National Research Agency [ANR-BLAN-0211-01], Spanish Ministerio de Economia, Hacienda o Finanzas, European Regional Development Fund [BIO2011-23489], Rhone-Alpes doctoral studentship, Agence Nationale de la Recherche (France), Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (España), European Commission, Région Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (España), École normale supérieure - Lyon (ENS Lyon)-Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université d'Évry-Val-d'Essonne (UEVE)-Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA), École normale supérieure de Lyon (ENS de Lyon)-Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), and Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)-AgroParisTech
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0106 biological sciences ,Models, Molecular ,FRUIT-DEVELOPMENT ,[SDV.SA]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Agricultural sciences ,Light ,Arabidopsis ,Plant Science ,01 natural sciences ,CRABS-CLAW ,Gene Expression Regulation, Plant ,Phytochrome B ,Basic Helix-Loop-Helix Transcription Factors ,Arabidopsis thaliana ,Promoter Regions, Genetic ,Phylogeny ,Research Articles ,0303 health sciences ,biology ,Phytochrome ,TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SPATULA ,food and beverages ,Gene Expression Regulation, Developmental ,Plants, Genetically Modified ,Cell biology ,Phenotype ,Flowering plant ,SHADE-AVOIDANCE-RESPONSE ,Gynoecium ,Molecular Sequence Data ,SIGNAL-TRANSDUCTION ,Flowers ,BHLH PROTEIN ,Evolution, Molecular ,GYNOECIUM ,03 medical and health sciences ,Shade avoidance ,Botany ,TARGET GENES ,Amino Acid Sequence ,Nucleotide Motifs ,Transcription factor ,030304 developmental biology ,Key innovation ,RED-LIGHT ,Base Sequence ,THALIANA ,Arabidopsis Proteins ,fungi ,Cell Biology ,Sequence Analysis, DNA ,biology.organism_classification ,Protein Structure, Tertiary ,Mutation ,Transcriptome ,010606 plant biology & botany - Abstract
A key innovation of flowering plants is the female reproductive organ, the carpel. Here, we show that a mechanism that regulates carpel margin development in the model flowering plant Arabidopsis thaliana was recruited from light-regulated processes. This recruitment followed the loss from the basic helix-loop-helix transcription factor SPATULA (SPT) of a domain previously responsible for its negative regulation by phytochrome. We propose that the loss of this domain was a prerequisite for the light-independent expression in female reproductive tissues of a genetic module that also promotes shade avoidance responses in vegetative organs. Striking evidence for this proposition is provided by the restoration of wild-type carpel development to spt mutants by low red/far-red light ratios, simulating vegetation shade, which we show to occur via phytochrome B, PHYTOCHROME INTERACTING FACTOR4 (PIF4), and PIF5. Our data illustrate the potential of modular evolutionary events to generate rapid morphological change and thereby provide a molecular basis for neo-Darwinian theories that describe this nongradualist phenomenon. Furthermore, the effects shown here of light quality perception on carpel development lead us to speculate on the potential role of light-regulated mechanisms in plant organs that, like the carpel, form within the shade of surrounding tissues., We acknowledge funding from Génoplante and the French National Research Agency (ANR-BLAN-0211-01) to C.P.S., Spanish Ministerio de Economía, Hacienda o Finanzas and European Regional Development Fund (BIO2011-23489) funding to J.F.M.-G., and a Rhône-Alpes doctoral studentship to M.C.R.
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- 2012
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