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The Plant Cell Online: 18 (2)
Feb 2006

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Plant cells frequently undergo endoreduplication, during which chromosomal DNA is successively duplicated in the absence of mitosis. It has been proposed that endoreduplication is regulated at its entry by mitotic cyclin-dependent kinase activity, but the regulatory mechanisms for its termination remain unclear. On pages 382–396) Imai et al. show that the A-type cyclin CYCA2;3 negatively regulates endocycles and acts as a key regulator of ploidy levels during endoreduplication in Arabidopsis. The authors found that the CYCA2;3 promoter is active in developing trichomes during the termination period of endoreduplication. Loss-of-function mutations of CYCA2;3 semidominantly promoted endocycles and increased the ploidy levels in mature organs but did not significantly affect the proportion of cells that underwent endoreduplication. In addition, expression of a CYCA2;3-GFP fusion protein restrained endocycles in a dosedependent manner. The cover image shows a 49,6-diamidino-2-phenylindole-stained Arabidopsis trichome, which typically has a nuclear DNA content of 32C, in contrast with the 1C DNA content of a haploid genome.

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