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First published online 11 July 2007
doi: 10.1242/dev.006296

Development 134, 2959-2968 (2007)
Published by The Company of Biologists 2007
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Regulation of the Arabidopsis root vascular initial population by LONESOME HIGHWAY

Kyoko Ohashi-Ito* and Dominique C. Bergmann{dagger}

Stanford University, Department of Biological Sciences, Stanford, CA 94305, USA.

{dagger} Author for correspondence (e-mail: dbergmann{at}stanford.edu)

Accepted 2 June 2007

Complex organisms consist of a multitude of cell types arranged in a precise spatial relation to each other. Arabidopsis roots generally exhibit radial tissue organization; however, within a tissue layer, cells are not identical. Specific vascular cell types are arranged in diametrically opposed longitudinal files that maximize the distance between them and create a bilaterally symmetric (diarch) root. Mutations in the LONESOME HIGHWAY (LHW) gene eliminate bilateral symmetry and reduce the number of cells in the center of the root, resulting in roots with only single xylem and phloem poles. LHW does not appear to be required for the creation of any specific cell type, but coordinately controls the number of all vascular cell types by regulating the size of the pool of cells from which they arise. We cloned LHW and found that it encodes a protein with weak sequence similarity to basic helix-loop-helix (bHLH)-domain proteins. LHW is a transcriptional activator in vitro. In plants, LHW is nuclear-localized and is expressed in the root meristems, where we hypothesize it acts independently of other known root-patterning genes to promote the production of stele cells, but might also indirectly feed into established regulatory networks for the maintenance of the root meristem.

Key words: Arabidopsis, Root pattern, Symmetry, Vasculature




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