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Published on August 13, 2008; 10.1104/pp.108.124271

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Received June 6, 2008
Accepted August 6, 2008

Combined genetic and modelling approaches reveal that epidermal cell area and number in leaves are controlled by leaf and plant developmental processes in A. thaliana

Sebastien Tisne , Matthieu Reymond , Denis Vile , Juliette Fabre , Myriam Dauzat , Maarten Koornneef , and Christine Granier *

Laboratoire d'Ecophysiologie des Plantes sous Stress Environnementaux UMR759, INRA-SUPAGRO, Place Viala, F-34060 Montpellier, France; Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research Carl-von-Linne-Weg 10 50829 Cologne Germany; Laboratory of Genetics, Wageningen University, Arboretumlaan 4, 6703 BD, Wageningen, The Netherlands

* Corresponding author; email: granier{at}supagro.inra.fr.

Both leaf production and leaf expansion are tightly linked to cell expansion and cell division but the functional relationships between all these variables are not clearly established. To get insight into these relationships, a quantitative genetic analysis was performed in 118 Recombinant Inbred Lines (RIL) derived from a cross between Ler and An-1 accessions and was combined with a structural equation modelling approach. Main effects and epistatic interactions at the QTL level were detected for rosette area, rosette leaf number, leaf 6 area, epidermal cell area and number. A QTL at ERECTA marker controlled cell expansion and cell division, in interaction with two other QTLs at SNP295 and SNP21 markers. Moreover, both the screening for marker association involved in the variation of the relationships between leaf growth variables and the test of alternative functional models by structural equation modelling revealed that the allelic value at ER controlled epidermal cell area and epidermal cell number in a leaf. These effects are driven both by a whole plant mechanism associated with leaf production and by a single leaf mechanism associated with leaf expansion. The complex effects of the QTL at ER were validated in selected Heterogeneous Inbred Families (HIF). The ERECTA gene, which is mutated in the Ler parental line, was found to be a putative candidate responsible for these mapped effects by phenotyping mutants of this gene at the cellular level. All together these results give insight into the complex determination of leaf epidermal cell number and area.




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