title: Temporal Control of Plant Organ Growth by TCP Transcription Factors.
abstract: The Arabidopsis petal is a simple laminar organ whose development is largely impervious to environmental effects, making it an excellent model for dissecting the regulation of cell-cycle progression and post-mitotic cell expansion that together sculpt organ form. Arabidopsis petals grow via basipetal waves of cell division, followed by a phase of cell expansion. RABBIT EARS (RBE) encodes a C2H2 zinc finger transcriptional repressor and is required for petal development. During the early phase of petal initiation, RBE regulates a microRNA164-dependent pathway that controls cell proliferation at the petal primordium boundaries. The effects of rbe mutations on petal lamina growth suggest that RBE is also required to regulate later developmental events during petal organogenesis. Here, we demonstrate that, early in petal development, RBE represses the transcription of a suite of CIN-TCP genes that in turn act to inhibit the number and duration of cell divisions; the temporal alleviation of that repression results in the transition from cell division to post-mitotic cell expansion and concomitant petal maturation.
authors.affiliation: Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, Yale University, 266 Whitney Avenue, New Haven, CT 06520-8104, USA.
authors.forename: Tengbo
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Huang
authors.affiliation: Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, Yale University, 266 Whitney Avenue, New Haven, CT 06520-8104, USA; Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, 165 Prospect Street, New Haven, CT 06520-8106, USA. Electronic address: vivian.irish@yale.edu.
authors.forename: Vivian F
authors.initials: VF
authors.lastname: Irish
mesh_terms: D017360:Arabidopsis / Q000254:growth & development* / Q000378:metabolism; D029681:Arabidopsis Proteins / Q000378:metabolism*; D002455:Cell Division / Q000502:physiology; D049109:Cell Proliferation / Q000502:physiology; D047369:Chromatin Immunoprecipitation; D035264:Flowers / Q000166:cytology / Q000254:growth & development* / Q000378:metabolism; D018506:Gene Expression Regulation, Plant / Q000502:physiology*; D017403:In Situ Hybridization; D060888:Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction; D012097:Repressor Proteins / Q000378:metabolism*; D014157:Transcription Factors / Q000378:metabolism*
chemical_list: D029681:Arabidopsis Proteins; C509081:RBE protein, Arabidopsis; D012097:Repressor Proteins; D014157:Transcription Factors