Specification of female germline by microRNA orchestrated auxin signaling in Arabidopsis

In most flowering plants, a single megaspore mother cell (MMC) is formed in each ovule. Here the authors show that miR160 and the auxin response factor ARF17 act to promote MMC fate via SPL/NZZ and control auxin signaling to prevent somatic cells from acquiring MMC fate.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Jian Huang, Lei Zhao, Shikha Malik, Benjamin R. Gentile, Va Xiong, Tzahi Arazi, Heather A. Owen, Jiří Friml, Dazhong Zhao
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2022-11-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-34723-6