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Progressive maturation of the root apical meristem in Arabidopsis thaliana lateral roots

View ORCID ProfileBéatrice Berthet, View ORCID ProfileLotte Bald, View ORCID ProfileMarion Louveaux, View ORCID ProfileAlexis Maizel
doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.02.18.481036
Béatrice Berthet
Center for Organismal Studies (COS), University of Heidelberg, Im Neuenheimer Feld 230, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany
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Lotte Bald
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Marion Louveaux
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Alexis Maizel
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Abstract

Meristems are stem cells niches that support the formation of all plant organs and are either set during embryogenesis and maintained throughout the plant life or specified de novo, post-embryonically. The embryo-derived root apical meristem is organized around a group of infrequently dividing cells, the quiescent centre, that maintains the stem cells, organizes growth along two axes and owing to its resistance to 3ic stress can replace damaged stem cells. In most cases, lateral roots post-embryonically branch off the primary and establish a new root meristem which organization is identical to the primary root one. The cellular and molecular processes underpinning the emergence of new stem cell niches are not well known. Here, we characterize the de novo establishment of the root apical meristem in lateral roots. While the position of the new stem cell niche is set early during morphogenesis, its cellular layout, unique gene expression profile and mitotic quiescence are only acquired after emergence concomitant to the establishment of two diverging growth axis. Our results show that the intertwined attributes of the mature root stem cell niche are progressively acquired during lateral root formation, and support a model in which the position of the stem cell niche emerges from the establishment of diverging growth axis.

Highlight Analyze of the ontogeny of the quiescent center during lateral root ontogeny reveal its late formation and supports that its emergence results from the establishment of two diverging growth axis.

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The authors have declared no competing interest.

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  • Emails: Béatrice Berthet beatrice.berthet{at}hotmail.fr, Lotte Bald lotte.bald{at}cos.uni-heidelberg.de, Marion Louveaux marion.louveaux{at}gmail.com, Alexis Maizel alexis.maizel{at}cos.uni-heidelberg.de

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Progressive maturation of the root apical meristem in Arabidopsis thaliana lateral roots
Béatrice Berthet, Lotte Bald, Marion Louveaux, Alexis Maizel
bioRxiv 2022.02.18.481036; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.02.18.481036
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Progressive maturation of the root apical meristem in Arabidopsis thaliana lateral roots
Béatrice Berthet, Lotte Bald, Marion Louveaux, Alexis Maizel
bioRxiv 2022.02.18.481036; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.02.18.481036

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