Abstract

SignificancePlants grow from their tips. The gametophore (shoot-like organ) tip of the moss Physcomitrium patens is a single cell that performs the same functions as those of multicellular flowering plants, producing the cells that make leaves and regenerating new stem cells to maintain the shoot tip. Several pathways, including CLAVATA and cytokinin hormonal signaling, regulate stem cell abundance in flowering plants and in mosses, although the mechanisms whereby these pathways regulate stem cell abundance and their conservation between these plant lineages is poorly understood. Using moss, we investigated how PpCLAVATA and cytokinin signaling interact. Overall, we found evidence that PpCLAVATA and cytokinin signaling interact similarly in moss and flowering plants, despite their distinct anatomies, life cycles, and evolutionary distance.

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