Regulatory Specificity of Radial Plant Growth (B08)

• Subject Area: Plant Cell and Developmental Biology
• Term: since 2018
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 232631280

Although regulatory loops determining stem cell activity are similar in distinct plant stem cell systems, their anatomy as well as their cellular products are specific. One of these niches is the cambium for which we showed that the transcription factor WUSCHEL RELATED 4 (WOX4) is part of an auxin-dependent signaling regime in the proximal cambium domain. In the next phase we will investigate how WOX4 in concert with phloem-derived DOF transcription factors determines stem cell-related molecular signatures to identify mechanisms establishing stem cell identity within the unique anatomical setting of the cambium.

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres
• Subproject of: SFB 1101: Molecular Encoding of Specificity in Plant Processes
• Applicant Institution: Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen
• Project Head: Professor Dr. Thomas Greb