An Auxin Transport-Based Model of Root Branching in Arabidopsis thaliana Export

@article{citeulike:4880637, abstract = {Root architecture is a crucial part of plant adaptation to soil heterogeneity and is mainly controlled by root branching. The process of root system development can be divided into two successive steps: lateral root initiation and lateral root development/emergence which are controlled by different fluxes of the plant hormone auxin. While shoot architecture appears to be highly regular, following rules such as the phyllotactic spiral, root architecture appears more chaotic. We used stochastic modeling to extract hidden rules regulating root branching in Arabidopsis thaliana. These rules were used to build an integrative mechanistic model of root ramification based on auxin. This model was experimentally tested using plants with modified rhythm of lateral root initiation or mutants perturbed in auxin transport. Our analysis revealed that lateral root initiation and lateral root development/emergence are interacting with each other to create a global balance between the respective ratio of initiation and emergence. A mechanistic model based on auxin fluxes successfully predicted this property and the phenotype alteration of auxin transport mutants or plants with modified rythms of lateral root initiation. This suggests that root branching is controlled by mechanisms of lateral inhibition due to a competition between initiation and development/emergence for auxin.}, author = {Lucas, Mika\"{e}l and Gu\'{e}don, Yann and Jay-Allemand, Christian and Godin, Christophe and Laplaze, Laurent}, citeulike-article-id = {4880637}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0003673}, day = {19}, doi = {10.1371/journal.pone.0003673}, journal = {PLoS ONE}, keywords = {auxin}, month = {November}, number = {11}, pages = {e3673+}, posted-at = {2009-06-17 15:10:32}, priority = {2}, publisher = {Public Library of Science}, title = {An Auxin Transport-Based Model of Root Branching in Arabidopsis thaliana}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0003673}, volume = {3}, year = {2008} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:4880637 L3 - citeulike-article-id:4880637 N2 - Root architecture is a crucial part of plant adaptation to soil heterogeneity and is mainly controlled by root branching. The process of root system development can be divided into two successive steps: lateral root initiation and lateral root development/emergence which are controlled by different fluxes of the plant hormone auxin. While shoot architecture appears to be highly regular, following rules such as the phyllotactic spiral, root architecture appears more chaotic. We used stochastic modeling to extract hidden rules regulating root branching in Arabidopsis thaliana. These rules were used to build an integrative mechanistic model of root ramification based on auxin. This model was experimentally tested using plants with modified rhythm of lateral root initiation or mutants perturbed in auxin transport. Our analysis revealed that lateral root initiation and lateral root development/emergence are interacting with each other to create a global balance between the respective ratio of initiation and emergence. A mechanistic model based on auxin fluxes successfully predicted this property and the phenotype alteration of auxin transport mutants or plants with modified rythms of lateral root initiation. This suggests that root branching is controlled by mechanisms of lateral inhibition due to a competition between initiation and development/emergence for auxin. IS - 11 JF - PLoS ONE TI - An Auxin Transport-Based Model of Root Branching in Arabidopsis thaliana PB - Public Library of Science VL - 3 SP - e3673 KW - auxin AU - Lucas, Mikaël AU - Guédon, Yann AU - Jay-Allemand, Christian AU - Godin, Christophe AU - Laplaze, Laurent PY - 2008/11/19/ UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0003673 ER -