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Plant response to stress meets dedifferentiation

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Plant response to various stress conditions often results in expression of common genes, known as stress-responsive/inducible genes. Accumulating data point to a common, yet elusive process underlying the response of plant cells to stress. Evidence derived from transcriptome profiling of shoot apical meristem stem cells, dedifferentiating protoplast cells as well as from senescing cells lends support to a model in which a common response of cells to certain biotic and abiotic stresses converges on cellular dedifferentiation whereby cells first acquire a stem cell-like state before assuming a new fate.

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Abbreviations

iPSCs:

Induced pluripotent stem cells

SAM:

Shoot apical meristem

SAGs:

Senescence-associated genes

TF:

Transcription factor

NHEJ:

Non-homologous end-joining

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Acknowledgments

We thank Esti Yeger-Lotem for bioinformatics discussions and Yigal Avivi for critical reading of the manuscript. This work was supported by The Israel Science Foundation (ISF) grant No. 476/09 to G.G. and V.C.-C.

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  1. French Associates Institute for Agriculture and Biotechnology of Drylands, Jacob Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Sede Boqer Campus, Midreshet Ben-Gurion, 84990, Israel

    Gideon Grafi, Simon Barak & Vanessa Ransbotyn

  2. The National Institute for Biotechnology, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, 84105, Israel

    Vered Chalifa-Caspi, Tal Nagar & Inbar Plaschkes

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Grafi, G., Chalifa-Caspi, V., Nagar, T. et al. Plant response to stress meets dedifferentiation. Planta 233, 433–438 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00425-011-1366-3

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