Abstract
Duckweeds, quick-growing aquatic plants, have been recently recognized as promising hosts for the large-scale production of recombinant proteins and as an ideal biomass feedstock for biofuel production. These possible wide-spread industrial uses of duckweeds intensified research aimed at understanding the mechanisms that control duckweed growth. Here, we describe how the hormone cytokinin affects growth. We performed a number of standard cytokinin growth- and physiological-response assays using sterile-grown colonies of Lemna gibba and Spirodela polyrhiza. Similar to land plants, cytokinin inhibited root elongation in duckweeds. Surprisingly, and in contrast to land plants, cytokinin promoted growth of aerial organs in both duckweed species, suggesting that the cytokinin growth response fundamentally differs between aquatic and land plants.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 477-486 |
| Number of pages | 10 |
| Journal | Plant Growth Regulation |
| Volume | 86 |
| Issue number | 3 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Dec 1 2018 |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© 2018, Springer Nature B.V.
Funding
We thank Rutgers Duckweed Stock Cooperative for the duckweed species and Drs. S. DeBolt and M. Nair for help with the confocal microsopy. This work was supported by the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture, HATCH Project 1009329, and by the Kentucky Tobacco Research and Development Center. Confocal microscopy work was supported by the National Science Foundation under Cooperative Agreement No. 1355438. Acknowledgements We thank Rutgers Duckweed Stock Cooperative for the duckweed species and Drs. S. DeBolt and M. Nair for help with the confocal microsopy. This work was supported by the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture, HATCH Project 1009329, and by the Kentucky Tobacco Research and Development Center. Confocal microscopy work was supported by the National Science Foundation under Cooperative Agreement No. 1355438.
| Funders | Funder number |
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| The Kentucky Tobacco Research and Development Center | |
| U.S. Department of Energy Chinese Academy of Sciences Guangzhou Municipal Science and Technology Project Oak Ridge National Laboratory Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment National Science Foundation National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center National Natural Science Foundation of China | 1355438 |
| US Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture, Agriculture and Food Research Initiative | 1009329 |
Keywords
- Cytokinin
- Duckweed
- Growth promotion
- Lemna gibba
- Spirodela polyrhiza
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Physiology
- Agronomy and Crop Science
- Plant Science