AOBPreview originally published online on February 10, 2006
Annals of Botany 2006 97(5):883-893; doi:10.1093/aob/mcl027
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Role of Cytokinin and Auxin in Shaping Root Architecture: Regulating Vascular Differentiation, Lateral Root Initiation, Root Apical Dominance and Root Gravitropism
1 Department of Plant Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel and 2 Institute of Botany, Darmstadt University of Technology, Schnittspahnstrasse 3, 64287 Darmstadt, Germany
* For correspondence: E-mail alonir{at}post.tau.ac.il
Received: 11 August 2005 Returned for revision: 12 September 2005 Accepted: 30 November 2005 Published electronically: 10 February 2006
• Background and Aims Development and architecture of plant roots are regulated by phytohormones. Cytokinin (CK), synthesized in the root cap, promotes cytokinesis, vascular cambium sensitivity, vascular differentiation and root apical dominance. Auxin (indole-3-acetic acid, IAA), produced in young shoot organs, promotes root development and induces vascular differentiation. Both IAA and CK regulate root gravitropism. The aims of this study were to analyse the hormonal mechanisms that induce the root's primary vascular system, explain how differentiating-protoxylem vessels promote lateral root initiation, propose the concept of CK-dependent root apical dominance, and visualize the CK and IAA regulation of root gravitropiosm.
• Key Issues The hormonal analysis and proposed mechanisms yield new insights and extend previous concepts: how the radial pattern of the root protoxylem vs. protophloem strands is induced by alternating polar streams of high IAA vs. low IAA concentrations, respectively; how differentiating-protoxylem vessel elements stimulate lateral root initiation by auxin–ethylene–auxin signalling; and how root apical dominance is regulated by the root-cap-synthesized CK, which gives priority to the primary root in competition with its own lateral roots.
• Conclusions CK and IAA are key hormones that regulate root development, its vascular differentiation and root gravitropism; these two hormones, together with ethylene, regulate lateral root initiation.
Key words: Adventitious roots, apical dominance, Arabidopsis thaliana, auxin, cytokinin, ethylene, lateral root initiation, root architecture, root gravitropism, vascular differentiation
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