Stem cell fate in hypoxic root apical meristems is influenced by phytoglobin expression
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Root survival to flooding-induced hypoxic stress is dependent upon maintaining the functionality of the root apical meristem quiescent center (QC), a process that is governed by the basipetal flow of auxin leading to the formation of an auxin maximum, which is needed for the establishment of a highly oxidized environment specifying the QC niche. Perturbations in auxin flow and distribution along the root profile occurring during hypoxia can shift the redox state of the QC towards a more reduced environment, leading to the activation of the QC, degradation of the meristem, and root abortion. The maize phytoglobin gene ZmPgb1.1 is involved in minimizing these damaging effects during hypoxia in processes that result in sustaining the PIN-mediated auxin maximum and an oxidized environment in the QC. The oxidized environment is accomplished by maintaining the activity of redox enzymes oxidizing ascorbate and glutathione. These events, compromised in QCs suppressing ZmPgb1.1, ensure the functionality of the QC and root meristems under conditions of low oxygen, resulting in stable root performance.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".