Water fluxes pattern growth and identity in shoot meristems. Alonso-Serra, J., Cheddadi, I., Kiss, A., Cerutti, G., Lang, M., Dieudonné, S., Lionnet, C., Godin, C., & Hamant, O. Nature Communications, 15(1):6944, August, 2024. Publisher: Nature Publishing Group![Water fluxes pattern growth and identity in shoot meristems [link]](https://bibbase.org/img/filetypes/link.svg "link")
Paper doi abstract bibtex In multicellular organisms, tissue outgrowth creates a new water sink, modifying local hydraulic patterns. Although water fluxes are often considered passive by-products of development, their contribution to morphogenesis remains largely unexplored. Here, we mapped cell volumetric growth across the shoot apex in Arabidopsis thaliana. We found that, as organs grow, a subpopulation of cells at the organ-meristem boundary shrinks. Growth simulations using a model that integrates hydraulics and mechanics revealed water fluxes and predicted a water deficit for boundary cells. In planta, a water-soluble dye preferentially allocated to fast-growing tissues and failed to enter the boundary domain. Cell shrinkage next to fast-growing domains was also robust to different growth conditions and different topographies. Finally, a molecular signature of water deficit at the boundary confirmed our conclusion. Taken together, we propose that the differential sink strength of emerging organs prescribes the hydraulic patterns that define boundary domains at the shoot apex.
@article{alonso-serra_water_2024,
title = {Water fluxes pattern growth and identity in shoot meristems},
volume = {15},
copyright = {2024 The Author(s)},
issn = {2041-1723},
url = {https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-51099-x},
doi = {10.1038/s41467-024-51099-x},
abstract = {In multicellular organisms, tissue outgrowth creates a new water sink, modifying local hydraulic patterns. Although water fluxes are often considered passive by-products of development, their contribution to morphogenesis remains largely unexplored. Here, we mapped cell volumetric growth across the shoot apex in Arabidopsis thaliana. We found that, as organs grow, a subpopulation of cells at the organ-meristem boundary shrinks. Growth simulations using a model that integrates hydraulics and mechanics revealed water fluxes and predicted a water deficit for boundary cells. In planta, a water-soluble dye preferentially allocated to fast-growing tissues and failed to enter the boundary domain. Cell shrinkage next to fast-growing domains was also robust to different growth conditions and different topographies. Finally, a molecular signature of water deficit at the boundary confirmed our conclusion. Taken together, we propose that the differential sink strength of emerging organs prescribes the hydraulic patterns that define boundary domains at the shoot apex.},
language = {en},
number = {1},
urldate = {2025-10-08},
journal = {Nature Communications},
author = {Alonso-Serra, Juan and Cheddadi, Ibrahim and Kiss, Annamaria and Cerutti, Guillaume and Lang, Marianne and Dieudonné, Sana and Lionnet, Claire and Godin, Christophe and Hamant, Olivier},
month = aug,
year = {2024},
note = {Publisher: Nature Publishing Group},
keywords = {Computational biophysics, Patterning, Plant morphogenesis},
pages = {6944},
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