Plant Cell Advance Online Publication
Published on August 10, 2007; 10.1105/tpc.107.052811
Received May 10, 2007
Returned for revision July 12, 2007
Accepted July 12, 2007
A Molecular Timetable for Apical Bud Formation and Dormancy Induction in Poplar
Tom Ruttink 1, Matthias Arend 2, Kris Morreel 1, Véronique Storme 1, Stephane Rombauts 1, Jörg Fromm 2, Rishikesh P. Bhalerao 3, Wout Boerjan 1*, and Antje Rohde 1
1 Department of Plant Systems Biology, Flanders Institute for Biotechnology, 9052 Gent, Belgium; Department of Molecular Genetics, Ghent University, 9052 Gent, Belgium
2 Angewandte Holzbiologie, Technische Universität München, 80797 München, Germany
3 Umeå Plant Science Center, Department of Forest Genetics and Plant Physiology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, 901 83 Umeå, Sweden
* To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: wout.boerjan{at}psb.ugent.be.
The growth of perennial plants in the temperate zone alternates with periods of dormancy that are typically initiated during bud development in autumn. In a systems biology approach to unravel the underlying molecular program of apical bud development in poplar (Populus tremula x Populus alba), combined transcript and metabolite profiling were applied to a high-resolution time course from short-day induction to complete dormancy. Metabolite and gene expression dynamics were used to reconstruct the temporal sequence of events during bud development. Importantly, bud development could be dissected into bud formation, acclimation to dehydration and cold, and dormancy. To each of these processes, specific sets of regulatory and marker genes and metabolites are associated and provide a reference frame for future functional studies. Light, ethylene, and abscisic acid signal transduction pathways consecutively control bud development by setting, modifying, or terminating these processes. Ethylene signal transduction is positioned temporally between light and abscisic acid signals and is putatively activated by transiently low hexose pools. The timing and place of cell proliferation arrest (related to dormancy) and of the accumulation of storage compounds (related to acclimation processes) were established within the bud by electron microscopy. Finally, the identification of a large set of genes commonly expressed during the growth-to-dormancy transitions in poplar apical buds, cambium, or Arabidopsis thaliana seeds suggests parallels in the underlying molecular mechanisms in different plant organs.
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