Highly expressed cell wall genes contribute to robustness of sepal size.

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Title
Highly expressed cell wall genes contribute to robustness of sepal size.
Journal
Plant signaling & behavior
Author(s)
Hartasánchez D.A., Dumond M., Dubrulle N., Monéger F., Boudaoud A.
ISSN
1559-2324 (Electronic)
ISSN-L
1559-2316
Publication state
Published
Issued date
12/2025
Peer-reviewed
Oui
Volume
20
Number
1
Pages
2446858
Language
english
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Publication types: Journal Article
Publication Status: ppublish
Abstract
Reproducibility in organ size and shape is a fascinating trait of living organisms. The mechanisms underlying such robustness remain, however, to be elucidated. Taking the sepal of Arabidopsis as a model, we investigated whether variability of gene expression plays a role in variation of organ size and shape. Previous work from our team identified cell-wall related genes as being enriched among the genes whose expression is highly variable. We then hypothesized that the variation of measured morphological parameters in cell-wall related single knockout mutants could be correlated with the variation in gene expression of the corresponding gene (the knocked-out gene) in wild-type plants. We analyzed sepal size and shape from 16 cell-wall mutants and found that sepal size variability correlates positively, not with gene expression variation, but with mean gene expression of the corresponding gene in wild type. These findings support a contribution of cell-wall related genes to the robustness of sepal size.
Keywords
Cell Wall/metabolism, Cell Wall/genetics, Arabidopsis/genetics, Gene Expression Regulation, Plant, Flowers/genetics, Arabidopsis Proteins/genetics, Arabidopsis Proteins/metabolism, Genes, Plant, Arabidopsis sepal, Cell wall mutants, gene expression variability, morphological robustness
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Web of science
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Yes
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