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Cytokinin signaling in plant development.

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The current understanding of cytokinin metabolism, transport and signaling is summarized, and how this phytohormone regulates changes in gene expression to mediate its pleiotropic effects is discussed.
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The phytohormone cytokinin plays diverse roles in plant development, influencing many agriculturally important processes, including growth, nutrient responses and the response to biotic and abiotic stresses. Cytokinin levels in plants are regulated by biosynthesis and inactivation pathways. Cytokinins are perceived by membrane-localized histidine-kinase receptors and are transduced through a His-Asp phosphorelay to activate a family of transcription factors in the nucleus. Here, and in the accompanying poster, we summarize the current understanding of cytokinin metabolism, transport and signaling, and discuss how this phytohormone regulates changes in gene expression to mediate its pleiotropic effects.

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Two-component signal transduction

TL;DR: Detailed analyses of a relatively small number of representative proteins provide a foundation for understanding this large family of signaling proteins, which consists of two conserved components, a histidine protein kinase and a response regulator protein.
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Cytokinin Oxidase Regulates Rice Grain Production

TL;DR: It is shown that a QTL that increases grain productivity in rice, Gn1a, is a gene for cytokinin oxidase/dehydrogenase (OsCKX2), an enzyme that degrades the phytohormone cytokinIn.
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Cytokinin-Deficient Transgenic Arabidopsis Plants Show Multiple Developmental Alterations Indicating Opposite Functions of Cytokinins in the Regulation of Shoot and Root Meristem Activity

TL;DR: The results are consistent with the hypothesis that cytokinins have central, but opposite, regulatory functions in root and shoot meristems and indicate that a fine-tuned control of catabolism plays an important role in ensuring the proper regulation of cytokinin functions.
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Integration of spatial and temporal information during floral induction in Arabidopsis.

TL;DR: Data suggest that FT primarily controls the timing of flowering of Arabidopsis, and that integration of temporal and spatial information is mediated in part by the bZIP transcription factor FD, which is already expressed at the shoot apex before floral induction.
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CYTOKININS: Activity, Biosynthesis, and Translocation

TL;DR: Recent findings on the relationship between CK structural variation and activity, distinct features in CK biosynthesis between higher plants and Agrobacterium infected plants, CK translocation at whole-plant and cellular levels, and CKs as signaling molecules for nutrient status via root-shoot communication are summarized.
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