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Received September 24, 2004
Returned for revision December 3, 2004
Accepted December 3, 2004

Ethylene-Induced Differential Growth of Petioles in Arabidopsis. Analyzing Natural Variation, Response Kinetics, and Regulation

Frank F. Millenaar *, Marjolein C.H. Cox , Yvonne E.M. de Jong van Berkel , Rob A.M. Welschen , Ronald Pierik , Laurentius A.J.C. Voesenek , and Anton J.M. Peeters

Plant Ecophysiology, Utrecht University, 3584 CA Utrecht, The Netherlands

* Corresponding author; email: f.f.millenaar{at}bio.uu.nl.

Plants can reorient their organs in response to changes in environmental conditions. In some species, ethylene can induce resource-directed growth by stimulating a more vertical orientation of the petioles (hyponasty) and enhanced elongation. In this study on Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana), we show significant natural variation in ethylene-induced petiole elongation and hyponastic growth. This hyponastic growth was rapidly induced and also reversible because the petioles returned to normal after ethylene withdrawal. To unravel the mechanisms behind the natural variation, two contrasting accessions in ethylene-induced hyponasty were studied in detail. Columbia-0 showed a strong hyponastic response to ethylene, whereas this response was almost absent in Landsberg erecta (Ler). To test whether Ler is capable of showing hyponastic growth at all, several signals were applied. From all the signals applied, only spectrally neutral shade (20 µmol m-2 s-1) could induce a strong hyponastic response in Ler. Therefore, Ler has the capacity for hyponastic growth. Furthermore, the lack of ethylene-induced hyponastic growth in Ler is not the result of already-saturating ethylene production rates or insensitivity to ethylene, as an ethylene-responsive gene was up-regulated upon ethylene treatment in the petioles. Therefore, we conclude that Ler is missing an essential component between the primary ethylene signal transduction chain and a downstream part of the hyponastic growth signal transduction pathway.




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