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Tissue-wide integration of mechanical cues promotes efficient auxin patterning

Ramos, J. R. D.; Maizel, A.; Alim, K.

2019-10-28 plant biology
10.1101/820837 bioRxiv
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New plants organs form by local accumulation of auxin, which is transported by PIN proteins that localize following mechanical stresses. As auxin itself modifies tissue mechanics, a feedback loop between tissue mechanics and auxin patterning unfolds - yet the impact of tissue-wide mechanical coupling on auxin pattern emergence remains unclear. Here, we use a hybrid model composed of a vertex model for plant tissue mechanics, and a compartment model for auxin transport to explore the collective mechanical response of the tissue to auxin patterns and how it feeds back onto auxin transport. We compare a model accounting for a tissue-wide mechanical integration to a model where mechanical stresses are averaged out across the tissue. We show that only tissue-wide mechanical coupling leads to focused auxin spots, which we show to result from the formation of a circumferential stress field around these spots, self-reinforcing PIN polarity and auxin accumulation.

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