Cellularisation in the endosperm ofArabidopsis thalianais coupled to mitosis and shares multiple components with cytokinesis
- 15 December 2002
- journal article
- Published by The Company of Biologists in Development
- Vol. 129 (24), 5567-5576
- https://doi.org/10.1242/dev.00152
Abstract
Distinct forms of cytokinesis characterise specific phases of development in plants. In Arabidopsis, as in many other species, the endosperm that nurtures the embryo in the seed initially develops as a syncytium. This syncytial phase ends with simultaneous partitioning of the multinucleate cytoplasm into individual cells, a process referred to as cellularisation. Our in vivo observations show that, as in cytokinesis, cellularisation of the Arabidopsis endosperm is coupled to nuclear division. A genetic analysis reveals that most Arabidopsis mutations affecting cytokinesis in the embryo also impair endosperm cellularisation. These results imply that cellularisation and cytokinesis share multiple components of the same basic machinery. We further report the identification of mutations in a novel gene, SPATZLE, that specifically interfere with cellularisation of the endosperm, but not with cytokinesis in the embryo. The analysis of this mutant might identify a specific checkpoint for the onset of cellularisation.This publication has 34 references indexed in Scilit:
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