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. 2024 Apr 2;15:1369241. doi: 10.3389/fpls.2024.1369241

Endogenous and environmental signals in regulating vascular development and secondary growth

Huanzhong Wang 1,2,*
PMCID: PMC11018896  PMID: 38628366

Introduction

Resilient plant growth depends on the function of meristems, including the shoot apical meristem (SAM), the root apical meristem (RAM), and lateral meristems. The vascular cambium is a lateral meristem responsible for secondary growth and stem expansion at the radial axis. The vascular cambium harbors stem cells that proliferate, and progenies differentiate into xylem and phloem cells. Each radial cell file has one bifacial stem cell that produces both xylem and phloem cell lineages (Shi et al., 2019; Smetana et al., 2019). Cambial stem cells and undifferentiated xylem and phloem progenitors form a cambial region, which is often used as an indicator of cambial activity ( Figure 1A ). The apical meristems and vascular meristems are spatially separated. Coordinated growth between these meristems is mediated through mobile signals, such as hormones, peptides, and mechanical cues (Fischer et al., 2019). Environmental factors also played important roles in tuning the secondary growth.

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Vascular development and cambial activity is regulated by endogenous programs and exogenous signals. (A) Vascular development in Arabidopsis stem, hypocotyl, and root organs. Young stem develops discrete vascular bundles comprised of phloem, xylem, and intervening pro-cambium. Developing stems form cambial cells at vascular and interfascicular regions. Secondary growth produce secondary phloem and secondary xylem in mature stem, hypocotyl, and root. (B) Short-range peptide signals, TDIF-PXY-WOX4 and EPFL4/6-ERECTA modules, and hormonal signaling pathways regulate cambium cell proliferation and xylem cell differentiation. (C) Environmental factors regulate vascular development.

Secondary growth is an evolutionary innovation, providing sufficient mechanical support and efficient long-distance fluid transport for larger and more complex plant bodies (Tonn and Greb, 2017). Additionally, secondary growth produces large amounts of woody biomass, recalcitrant forms of carbon that can potentially mitigate global warming by fixing atmospheric carbon into storage. The primary vascular development is established early during embryogenesis (Miyashima et al., 2013). Pre-procambial initials start dividing at the globe stage, forming a radial pattern resembling post-embryonic root vasculature (Rodriguez-Villalon et al., 2014). The signaling pathways regulating primary vascular development were discussed in several recent excellent review papers (Fischer and Teichmann, 2017; Tonn and Greb, 2017; Wang, 2020; Turley and Etchells, 2022; Wang et al., 2023). This paper mainly focuses on advances in regulating plant vascular cambial activity and secondary growth.

Short-range regulatory pathways in secondary growth

The peptide-receptor module CLE41/44-PXY plays a central role in secondary growth

The proliferation of vascular stem cells and subsequent differentiation of progeny cells are tightly regulated to ensure the proper organization of vascular tissues. Among the known regulatory pathways, the TRACHEARY ELEMENT DIFFERENTIATION INHIBITORY FACTOR (TDIF) peptide and its receptor PHLOEM INTERCALATED WITH XYLEM (PXY), also known as TDIF RECEPTOR (TDR), form the most important and best studied short-range signal in secondary growth. PXY is a member of the receptor-like kinases (RLKs) with 21 leucine-rich repeats (LRRs) and is explicitly expressed on the xylem side of the vascular cambium (Fisher and Turner, 2007; Hirakawa et al., 2008; Etchells and Turner, 2010; Shi et al., 2019). Interestingly, the TDIF ligand coding genes, CLAVATA3/ENDOSPERM SURROUNDING REGION 41 (CLE41), CLE42, and CLE44 are expressed in the phloem (Ito et al., 2006; Hirakawa et al., 2008; Etchells and Turner, 2010). The TDIF dodecapeptide is produced from the cleavage of much longer pre-peptides through unknown mechanisms (Ito et al., 2006) and can bind to the inner concave surface of the LRR domain of the PXY receptor (Morita et al., 2016; Zhang et al., 2016a). The function of the ligand–receptor pair of TDIF-PXY requires co-receptors SOMATIC EMBRYOGENESIS RECEPTOR KINASEs (SERKs) to activate downstream pathways (Zhang et al., 2016b). Other membrane-localized partners, such as xylem differentiation and vascular patterning (XVP), may modulate TDIF-PXY function by forming protein complexes with PXY-SERKs coreceptors (Yang et al., 2020a) ( Figure 1B ).

The TDIF signal and its downstream components regulate cambial cell proliferation, xylem cell differentiation, and vascular patterning. First, the TDIF-PXY binding activates the cambium-expressed WUSCHEL-RELATED HOMEOBOX (WOX) transcription factor genes, WOX4 and WOX14, and enhances cambial cell proliferation (Hirakawa et al., 2010; Etchells et al., 2013). In contrast, the mutation of WOX4 and WOX14 reduces the number of cells in root and stem vascular bundles (Etchells et al., 2013; Zhang et al., 2019). Additionally, the TDIF-PXY module inhibits BIN2 LIKE 1 (BIL1) activity, which phosphorylates MONOPTEROS (MP)/AUXIN RESPONSE FACTOR 5(ARF5) and upregulates negative regulators of cytokinin signaling ARABIDOPSIS RESPONSE REGULATOR 7 (ARR7) and ARR15 (Han et al., 2018), connecting auxin-cytokinin signaling to maintain cambial activity. Second, the TDIF-PXY module represses xylem cell differentiation, as shown by ectopic xylem differentiation and lignification of parenchyma cells in the pxy mutant (Etchells et al., 2016). Brassinosteroid (BR) signaling likely mediates TDIF-PXY signal in repressing xylem cell differentiation, as shown by PXY interaction with BRASSINOSTEROID INSENSITIVE 2 (BIN2), which phosphorylates and promotes the degradation of BRASSINAZOLE RESISTANT 1(BZR1) and BRI1-EMS-SUPPRESSOR 1 (BES1) (Kondo et al., 2014; Saito et al., 2018). Lastly, TDIF-PXY signal controls vascular patterning, the organization of phloem, procambium, and xylem cells (Fisher and Turner, 2007; Etchells and Turner, 2010). Until recently, the LATERAL ORGAN BOUNDARIES DOMAIN 4 (LBD4) was indicated as the TDIF-PXY downstream component in regulating vascular patterning (Zhang et al., 2019; Smit et al., 2020). LBD4 is part of a feedforward loop downstream of PXY, mediating cell proliferation and vascular bundle shape, i.e., tangential:radial axis ratio, in inflorescence stems (Smit et al., 2020; Turley and Etchells, 2022) ( Figure 1B ). It appears that the functions of TDIF-PXY signaling are conserved because homologs of the Arabidopsis CLE41 and WOX4 genes play similar functions in Populus (Kucukoglu et al., 2017, Kucukoglu et al., 2020).

ERECTA and other receptor-like kinases participate in secondary growth

In addition to PXY and its homologous PXL1 and PXL2 (Fisher and Turner, 2007; Etchells et al., 2013), several other LRR-RLKs have been identified as regulators in vascular development (Agusti et al., 2011b; Uchida and Tasaka, 2013; Wang et al., 2013; Gursanscky et al., 2016). Among these LRR-RLKs, ERECTA (ER) and its two homologous proteins, ERL1 and ERL2 (Shpak et al., 2004), regulate vascular development and fiber formation in the stem (Ragni et al., 2011; Etchells et al., 2012; Uchida and Tasaka, 2013). Mutation of all three ER family (ERf) genes resulted in fewer cells in stem vascular bundles (Etchells et al., 2013). Furthermore, phloem-specific expression of ER can complement the defects in the procambium of the er erl1 mutant plants (Uchida and Tasaka, 2013). In the same study, the ligands for ERf proteins, EPIDERMAL PATTERNING FACTOR LIKE 4 (EPFL4) and EPFL6, were found to be expressed in the endodermis (Uchida et al., 2012; Uchida and Tasaka, 2013). The downstream components of the ligand-receptor of the EPFL4/6-ERf pair have yet to be identified ( Figure 1B ).

There are indications that TDIF-PXY signaling interacts with EPFL-ERf signaling in vascular development. The pxy er double mutant has fewer cells in vascular bundles and shows a much stronger phenotype than either pxy or er mutant, indicating genetic interaction between PXY and ER signaling (Etchells et al., 2012; Wang et al., 2019). Indeed, expression analyses showed cross-regulation between these two pathways (Wang et al., 2019). The mechanism of the cross-regulation between PXY and ER is elusive, although there is known protein–protein interaction between PXY and ERf (Smakowska-Luzan et al., 2018; Mott et al., 2019) and convergence of downstream common genes, such as the WOX4 gene (Wang, 2020; Turley and Etchells, 2022).

Developmental programs and hormonal signals in secondary growth

Cytokinin, auxin, and gibberellin regulate secondary growth

Cambial activity is influenced by signals from the apical meristems and developmental cues through phytohormones. Removing the SAM, the main auxin source, halts secondary growth (Sundberg and Uggla, 1998), while exogenous auxins application restores cambial cell division (Agusti et al., 2011a), demonstrating the connection between apical meristems and cambial activity.

Cytokinin is critical for cambial activity as shown by the lack of cambium formation in the quadruple mutant atipt1;3;5;7, disrupting four ATP/ADP isopentenyltransferase (IPT) genes, while the application of exogenous cytokinin restored vascular cambium (Matsumoto-Kitano et al., 2008). Cytokinins initiate cambial initiation in the Arabidopsis root through LBD3 and LBD4; at the same time, LBD1 and LBD11 participate in prolonged secondary growth (Ye et al., 2021). In Populus stems, cytokinin concentration peaks in the developing phloem cells, and overexpressing the IPT7 gene enhances cambial activity (Immanen et al., 2016). Decreasing cytokinin levels by expressing CYTOKININ OXIDASE/DEHYDROGENASE 2 (CKX2) gene in phloem non-cell autonomously restricts cambial activity (Fu et al., 2021).

Auxin also has a crucial role in secondary growth. In Arabidopsis root, secondary growth starts from the divisions of the xylem-adjacent procambial cells, which function as the stem cell organizer (Smetana et al., 2019). A local maximum of the auxin and consequent expression of HD-ZIP III transcription factors promotes cellular quiescence of the organizer cells (Smetana et al., 2019). In the stem, the inhibition of polar auxin transport results in auxin accumulation at the base of stems, therefore promoting secondary growth (Suer et al., 2011). In tree stems, auxin distributes in a radial concentration gradient, with the highest concentration at the cambium zone (Uggla et al., 1996; Tuominen et al., 1997). Disruption of auxin signaling or reducing auxin responsiveness led to reduced cambial cell division (Tuominen et al., 1997; Nilsson et al., 2008).

Gibberellins (Gas) also regulate cambial activity. Either directly applying active Gas or overexpression of a gibberellin biosynthesis gene Gibberellin 20-oxidase (GA20ox) enhances cambial activity (Wang et al., 1995; Eriksson et al., 2000). Shoot-produced GAs are required for secondary growth in Arabidopsis hypocotyls (Ragni et al., 2011). In addition, mutants with defects in GA biosynthesis show reduced cambium activity, confirming GAs as positive regulators of secondary growth (Ragni et al., 2011).

Ethylene, jasmonic acid, and strigolactones in secondary growth

Hormones induced by environmental fluctuation, including ethylene, jasmonic acid (JA), and strigolactone (SL), play roles in secondary growth. In Arabidopsis, the ethylene overproducer1 (eto1) plants show increased vascular size in hypocotyls and inflorescence stem (Etchells et al., 2012). A large number of ETHYLENE RESPONSE FACTOR (ERF) transcription factors, especially ERF018 and ERF109, are involved in vascular cell division. Cambial activity is enhanced in another ethylene-overproducing mutant, acs7-d, whose phenotype depends on WOX4 function, indicating that TDIF and ethylene signaling converge at the WOX4 level (Yang et al., 2020b). The function of ethylene is conserved in tree species, as shown by ethylene or aminocyclopropane-1-carboxylate (ACC) treatment that promotes cambial division and wood formation (Love et al., 2009). Genome-wide transcriptional profiling indicated that components of the JA signaling pathway are positive cambium regulators in Arabidopsis stem (Sehr et al., 2010). Furthermore, SL stimulates cambial activity as mutations in SL signaling or biosynthesis inhibit cambial activity (Agusti et al., 2011a). It is worth noting that all these known hormonal signals positively regulate secondary growth.

Environmental signals regulate secondary growth

Light

Light is one of the most critical environmental signals that control various developmental processes (Jiao et al., 2007; De Wit et al., 2016). The vascular system is an evolutionary innovation for plant adaption to light competition, which theory is supported by fossil records (Beck, 1971; Stewart et al., 1993; Meyer-Berthaud et al., 2010) and computer simulation studies (Knoll and Niklas, 1987; Fitch et al., 1994). Despite the importance of light in vascular plant evolution, how light influences vascular development is not well understood. In shade conditions, plants manifested various developmental responses, including elongation of stems and petioles, and increased apical dominance (Ballaré et al., 1990). In Arabidopsis hypocotyls, shade increases the number and types of water-conducting tracheary elements in the vascular cylinder, which may need the function of WOX4 (Botterweg-Paredes et al., 2020). Ghosh et al. reported that blue light inactivates the expression of Phytochrome-Interacting Factors (PIFs) and CLE44, therefore de-repressing vascular cell differentiation (Ghosh et al., 2022). It is unclear whether procambium activity is affected by blue light (Ghosh et al., 2022). Further studies indicated that shaded light conditions with a low ratio of red to far-red light inhibit secondary cell wall thickening through a PHYB-PIF4-MYC2/MYC4 module in fiber cells of the Arabidopsis stem (Luo et al., 2022). Therefore, light positively affects xylary cell differentiation and secondary wall development.

Temperature

Temperature is another environmental factor affecting many developmental processes, especially cambium reactivation and xylem differentiation in trees. Trees from temperate zones undergo seasonal vascular cambial cycles of activity and dormancy. In late winter to early spring, new cells are formed in the cambial, called cambial reactivation, which is mainly affected by temperature (Begum et al., 2013; Agustí and Blázquez, 2020). Under natural conditions, cambium reactivation in different species requires varied threshold temperatures and an accumulated number of degrees more than the threshold value, also called the cambial reactivation index (CRI) (Begum et al., 2013). Xylem differentiation often starts within 3 or 4 weeks after cambium reactivation (Rossi et al., 2007). Warm springs induce early resumption of cambial cell proliferation and an early onset of xylem differentiation (Rossi et al., 2007; Begum et al., 2008). Extensive modulation of cambial transcriptome and proteome occurs during the activity–dormancy cycle in aspen (Druart et al., 2007). Localized heating of stems during dormancy induces reactivation of the cambium in various trees, including evergreen conifers (Barnett, 1992; Oribe & Kubo, 1997; Oribe et al., 2001; Gričar et al., 2006) and poplar trees (Begum et al., 2007). These studies have established a clear relationship between temperature and morphological changes in trees, but the molecular mechanism is still lacking due to the scarcity of genetic and genomic studies.

In Arabidopsis leaves, high temperatures increase vein density and tracheary element number, likely facilitating higher rates of transpiration (Stewart et al., 2016). Interestingly, the Swedish ecotype exhibited more pronounced responses than the Italian ecotype, indicating that genetic variation may affect temperature response (Stewart et al., 2016). In another study, the expression of AtPXL1, a paralog of PXY, is induced by both cold and heat stress (Stewart et al., 2016). In addition, the atpxl1 mutant plants showed a temperature-hypersensitive phenotype (Stewart et al., 2016). It would be interesting to study if PXY activity is essential for acclimation under fluctuating temperatures.

Mechanical force

Plants are consistently experiencing mechanical forces, including endogenous compression resulting from growing body weight, increasing number and volume of surrounding cells, and environmental forces from wind, touch, and leaning. Among the mechanical forces, body weight has been well studied on secondary growth in the model plant Arabidopsis (Ko et al., 2004; Sehr et al., 2010). Using artificial weight treatment, Ko et al. found that weight induces cambial differentiation, and the weight signal relies on auxin signaling components (Ko et al., 2004). The weight-load-sensing system regulates cell-wall-related genes through transcriptional regulation in the xylem (Koizumi et al., 2009). In addition to auxin signaling, other hormonal signals, such as ABA, ethylene, and JA signaling, are also involved in body-weight-induced secondary growth in Arabidopsis (Sehr et al., 2010; Etchells et al., 2012; Campbell et al., 2018) ( Figure 1C ). Furthermore, ethylene controls cambial proliferation during tension wood development in Populus (Love et al., 2009). Therefore, mechanical cues may regulate cambial cell proliferation and subsequent cell differentiation through both auxin-dependent and auxin-independent pathways.

Water availability

Water availability is another factor that affects secondary growth. Drought induces the biosynthesis of ABA, which regulates the differentiation and patterning of primary and secondary xylem (Ramachandran et al., 2018). In Arabidopsis roots, ABA treatment induced extra xylem strands. At the same time, mutants in the last steps of ABA biosynthesis, abi2-1 and abi3-1, displayed discontinuous or absent xylem strands, indicating the importance of ABA in xylary wall formation (Ramachandran et al., 2018). Additionally, endodermis localized ABA non-cell autonomously regulates the xylem cell types (Ramachandran et al., 2018). It was proposed that ABA induces the biosynthesis of miRNA165/166 in the endodermis, and then, miRNA165/166 moves to the developing xylem cells, where the miRNAs control certain HD-ZIP III factors in regulating protoxylem and metaxylem identity (Carlsbecker et al., 2010; Ramachandran et al., 2018) ( Figure 1C ). Furthermore, ABA regulates xylem patterning and maturation via miR165a/166b-regulated expression of HD-ZIPIII mRNAs and associated VND7 levels in tomatoes (Bloch et al., 2019).

Drought-induced ABA signal may reduce secondary growth through interactions with other hormonal pathways. For instance, water stress and ABA treatments decrease biologically active CK contents, demonstrating a mechanism for survival under abiotic stress conditions (Bloch et al., 2019). Additionally, decreased levels of CK increased ABA sensitivity, suggesting a complex crosstalk between these two hormones (Nishiyama et al., 2011; Bloch et al., 2019). Furthermore, JA induces xylem differentiation by reducing CK-dependent promotion of cell division in the vasculature in the root (Jang et al., 2017). JA is known for its function in secondary growth in the stem (Sehr et al., 2010) and is essential to ABA accumulation in roots under water deficiency (de Ollas et al., 2015). Therefore, JA and CKs are in a signaling network regulating xylem differentiation under water stress conditions.

Discussion and future perspectives

Recent research advances have enhanced our understanding of cambial activity control and secondary growth. The growing interest in developing environmentally resilient crops requires new knowledge of how exogenous factors influence secondary growth, especially under unfavorable conditions. Research on secondary growth faces numerous technological challenges, including difficulties in direct observation of vascular tissues, lacking genetic materials in non-model plant species, and mechanism differences in different organs (Wang, 2020; Turley and Etchells, 2022).

New technologies, such as advanced microscopy and cell-based computational modeling, will be essential to visualize and analyze cambium activity. For example, whole-mount imaging coupled with gene expression at three-dimensional (3D) domains enabled analysis at single-cell precision (Truernit et al., 2008). Tools that combine the quantitative 3D image analysis and clonal analysis may be essential to understand cambium development (Bencivenga et al., 2016). In addition, integrating cell-based computational model and the function of central cambium regulators help to determine the framework for instructing tissue organization (Lebovka et al., 2023). Lastly, pulse labeling, lineage tracing, and molecular genetic techniques have advanced our understanding on the bifacial nature of vascular stem cells in both hypocotyl and root tissues in model plants Arabidopsis (Shi et al., 2019; Smetana et al., 2019). The combination of these techniques will help further elucidate the mechanisms of vascular development.

Research on environmental factors in secondary growth is limited to primarily morphological observations in tree species. In the future, research should focus on investigating the perception and signaling of these environmental factors using model plants and advanced omics technologies. Dissecting the functional mechanisms of the exogenous factors on vascular development may provide new insights into the regulation of cambial activity and generate new knowledge for developing new strategies in biomass deposition and carbon reduction in the era of climate change and global warming.

Author contributions

HW: Funding acquisition, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing.

Funding Statement

The author(s) declare that financial support was received for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article. This work is supported by the National Science Foundation (IOS-2049926) and, in part, by USDA, National Institute of Food and Agriculture CONS 01077 to HW.

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