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JACKDAW controls epidermal patterning in the Arabidopsis root meristem through a non-cell-autonomous mechanism

Hassan, Hala, Scheres, Ben ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5400-9578 and Blilou, Ikram 2010. JACKDAW controls epidermal patterning in the Arabidopsis root meristem through a non-cell-autonomous mechanism. Development 137 (9) , pp. 1523-1529. 10.1242/dev.048777

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Abstract

In Arabidopsis, specification of the hair and non-hair epidermal cell types is position dependent, in that hair cells arise over clefts in the underlying cortical cell layer. Epidermal patterning is determined by a network of transcriptional regulators that respond to an as yet unknown cue from underlying tissues. Previously, we showed that JACKDAW (JKD), a zinc finger protein, localizes in the quiescent centre and the ground tissue, and regulates tissue boundaries and asymmetric cell division by delimiting SHORT-ROOT movement. Here, we provide evidence that JKD controls position-dependent signals that regulate epidermal-cell-type patterning. JKD is required for appropriately patterned expression of the epidermal cell fate regulators GLABRA2, CAPRICE and WEREWOLF. Genetic interaction studies indicate that JKD operates upstream of the epidermal patterning network in a SCRAMBLED (SCM)-dependent fashion after embryogenesis, but acts independent of SCM in embryogenesis. Tissue-specific induction experiments indicate non-cell-autonomous action of JKD from the underlying cortex cell layer to specify epidermal cell fate. Our findings are consistent with a model where JKD induces a signal in every cortex cell that is more abundant in the hair cell position owing to the larger surface contact of cells located over a cleft.

Item Type: Article
Date Type: Publication
Status: Published
Schools: Biosciences
Subjects: Q Science > QH Natural history > QH301 Biology
Q Science > QK Botany
Uncontrolled Keywords: Epidermal patterning; Position-dependent signals; Root hairs; Arabidopsis
Publisher: The Company of Biologists
ISSN: 0950-1991
Last Modified: 25 Oct 2022 09:13
URI: https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/57710

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