Research Highlights
Scientists reveal why plant stomata has its particular lip shape ~ Plant's master regulator gene MUTE, provides hints to how organisms develop their shape ~
Professor Keiko Torii (ITbM, Nagoya University; HHMI; University of Washington), Designated Assistant Professor Soon-Ki Han, and their collaborators at Kyushu University and RIKEN, have revealed the mechanism on how plant stomata is formed through a single symmetric cell division. The research was carried out through the collaboration of various fields, including plant biology, bioinformatics and mathematical modeling.
The results of this research have been reported in Developmental Cell.
The regulatory network of stomatal differentiation and cell division by the regulator gene, MUTE. Usually, stomata consist of 2 guard cells, but upon switching to a different regulatory pathway, various stomata shapes (stomata with only one guard cell, stomata with 4 guard cells) are formed.
Journal Information:
This article "MUTE Directly Orchestrates Cell-State Switch and the Single Symmetric Division to Create Stomata" by Soon-Ki Han, Xingyun Qi, Kei Sugihara, Jonathan H. Dang, Takaho A. Endo, Kristen L. Miller, Eun-Deok Kim, Takashi Miura, Keiko U. Torii was published online in Developmental Cell.
DOI: 10.1016/j.devcel.2018.04.010
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