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Plant Physiol, June 2001, Vol. 126, pp. 575-586

AtCSLD3, A Cellulose Synthase-Like Gene Important for Root Hair Growth in Arabidopsis1

Xuan Wang,2 Gerda Cnops,2 Rudy Vanderhaeghen, Sabine De Block, Marc Van Montagu, and Mieke Van Lijsebettens*

Vakgroep Moleculaire Genetica & Departement Plantengenetica, Vlaams Interuniversitair Instituut voor Biotechnologie, Universiteit Gent, K.L. Ledeganckstraat 35, B-9000 Gent, Belgium

A member of the cellulose synthase-like (subfamily D) gene family of Arabidopsis, AtCSLD3, has been identified by T-DNA tagging. The analysis of the corresponding mutant, csld3-1, showed that the AtCSLD3 gene plays a role in root hair growth in plants. Root hairs grow in phases: First a bulge is formed and then the root hair elongates by polarized growth, the so-called "tip growth." In the mutant, root hairs were initiated at the correct position and grew into a bulge, but their elongation was severely reduced. The tips of the csld3-1 root hairs easily leaked cytoplasm, indicating that the tensile strength of the cell wall had changed at the site of the tip. Based on the mutant phenotype and the functional conservation between CSLD3 and the genuine cellulose synthase proteins, we hypothesized that the CSLD3 protein is essential for the synthesis of polymers for the fast-growing primary cell wall at the root hair tip. The distinct mutant phenotype and the ubiquitous expression pattern indicate that the CSLD3 gene product is only limiting at the zone of the root hair tip, suggesting particular physical properties of the cell wall at this specific site of the root hair cell.


1 This work was supported by a grant from the Fund for Scientific Research, Flanders (grant no. G.0075.97).

2 These authors contributed equally to this work.

* Corresponding author; e-mail milij{at}gengenp.rug.ac.be; fax 32-9-2645349.

© 2001 American Society of Plant Physiologists



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