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  GH3-mediated Auxin Homeostasis Links Growth Regulation with Stress Adaptation Response in Arabidopsis  
 
 
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 Jung-Eun Park, Ju-Young Park, Youn-Sung Kim, Paul E. Staswick, Jin Jeon||, Ju Yun, Sun-Young Kim, Jungmook Kim, Yong-Hwan Lee, and Chung-Mo Park
  Title  GH3-mediated Auxin Homeostasis Links Growth Regulation with Stress Adaptation Response in Arabidopsis
  Journal  Journal of Biological Chemistry, 2007 (282) ~
  Abstract
 Plants constantly monitor environmental fluctuations to optimize their growth and metabolism. One example is adaptive growth occurring in response to biotic and abiotic stresses. Here, we demonstrate that GH3-mediated auxin homeostasis is an essential constituent of the complex network of auxin actions that regulates stress adaptation responses in Arabidopsis. Endogenous auxin pool is regulated, at least in part, through negative feedback by a group of auxin-inducible GH3 genes encoding auxin-conjugating enzymes. An Arabidopsis mutant, wes1-D, in which a GH3 gene WES1 is activated by nearby insertion of the 35S enhancer, exhibited auxin-deficient traits, including reduced growth and altered leaf shape. Interestingly, WES1 is also induced by various stress conditions as well as by salicylic acid and abscisic acid. Accordingly, wes1-D was resistant to both biotic and abiotic stresses, and stress-responsive genes, such as pathogenesis-related genes and CBF genes, were upregulated in this mutant. In contrast, a T-DNA insertional mutant showed reduced stress resistance. We therefore propose that GH3-mediated growth suppression directs reallocation of metabolic resources to resistance establishment and represents the fitness costs of induced resistance.
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