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Regulation of cell reprogramming by auxin during somatic embryogenesis

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How somatic cells develop into a whole plant is a central question in plant developmental biology. This powerful ability of plant cells is recognized as their totipotency. Somatic embryogenesis is an excellent example and a good research system for studying plant cell totipotency. However, very little is known about the molecular basis of cell reprogramming from somatic cells to totipotent cells in this process. During somatic embryogenesis from immature zygotic embryos in Arabidopsis, exogenous auxin treatment is required for embryonic callus formation, but removal of exogenous auxin inducing endogenous auxin biosynthesis is essential for somatic embryo (SE) induction. Ectopic expression of specific transcription factor genes, such as “LAFL” and BABY BOOM (BBM), can induce SEs without exogenous growth regulators. Somatic embryogenesis can also be triggered by stress, as well as by disruption of chromatin remodeling, including PRC2-mediated histone methylation, histone deacetylation, and PKL-related chromatin remodeling. It is evident that embryonic identity genes are required and endogenous auxin plays a central role for cell reprogramming during the induction of SEs. Thus, we focus on reviewing the regulation of cell reprogramming for somatic embryogenesis by auxin.

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This work was funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (31670320, 31700248) and the Natural Science Foundation of Shandong Province (ZR2017JL016).

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Tang, L.P., Zhang, X.S. & Su, Y.H. Regulation of cell reprogramming by auxin during somatic embryogenesis. aBIOTECH 1, 185–193 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s42994-020-00029-8

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