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PLANT PHYSIOLOGY , Vol 106, Issue 3 863-876, Copyright © 1994 by American Society of Plant Biologists
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DEVELOPMENT AND GROWTH REGULATION |
The Fate of Inflorescence Meristems Is Controlled by Developing Fruits in Arabidopsis
L. L. Hensel, M. A. Nelson, T. A. Richmond and A. B. Bleecker
Botany Department, Birge Hall, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 53706
The relationship between fruit development and the proliferative capacities
of inflorescence meristems has been examined in Arabidopsis thaliana. In
the wild-type Landsberg erecta (Ler) line, flower production ceases
coordinately on all inflorescence branches by a process we have designated
global proliferative arrest (GPA). Morphological studies indicate that GPA
involves a cessation of proliferative activity at the meristems, but a
retention of the structural characteristics of the proliferating meristems.
GPA does not occur in the male-sterile (ms1-1) line, nor in wild-type Ler
when fruits are surgically removed. In these cases, inflorescence meristems
continue to proliferate, ultimately terminating by a different process,
designated terminal differentiation, in which disruptions in patterning at
the apex are followed by the loss of the inflorescence meristem. We present
an argument that GPA is mediated by a specific communication system between
inflorescence meristems and developing fruits. Analysis of
reduced-fertility mutants provided evidence that GPA is dependent on seed
development specifically. Mutations conferring hormone deficiency or
insensitivity did not disrupt the correlative interactions leading to GPA.
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