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Received December 23, 2008
Accepted March 23, 2009

Strigolactone acts Downstream of Auxin to Regulate Bud Outgrowth in Pea and Arabidopsis

Philip B. Brewer , Elizabeth A. Dun , Brett J. Ferguson , Catherine Rameau , and Christine A. Beveridge *

The University of Queensland, ARC Centre of Excellence for Integrative Legume Research and School of Biological Sciences, St Lucia, 4072 Australia; Station de Genetique et d'Amelioration des Plantes, Institut J. P. Bourgin, UR254 INRA, F-78000 Versailles, France

* Corresponding author; email: c.beveridge{at}uq.edu.au.

During the last century, two key hypotheses have been proposed to explain apical dominance in plants; auxin promotes the production of a second messenger that moves up into buds to repress their outgrowth, and auxin saturation in the stem inhibits auxin transport from buds, thereby inhibiting bud outgrowth. The recent discovery of strigolactone as the novel shoot branching inhibitor allowed us to test its mode of action in relation to these hypotheses. We found that exogenously applied strigolactone inhibited bud outgrowth in Pisum sativum (pea) even when auxin was depleted after decapitation. We also found that strigolactone application reduced branching in Arabidopsis thaliana auxin response mutants, suggesting that auxin may act through strigolactones to facilitate apical dominance. Moreover, strigolactone application to tiny buds of mutant or decapitated pea plants rapidly stopped outgrowth, in contrast to applying NPA, an auxin transport inhibitor, which significantly slowed growth only after several days. Whereas strigolactone or NPA applied to growing buds reduced bud lengths, only NPA blocked auxin transport in the bud. Wild-type and strigolactone biosynthesis mutant pea and Arabidopsis shoots were capable of instantly transporting additional amounts of auxin in excess of endogenous levels, contrary to predictions of auxin transport models. These data suggest that strigolactone does not act primarily by affecting auxin transport from buds. Rather, the primary repressor of bud outgrowth appears to be the auxin-dependent production of strigolactones.




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