José Abraham Trujillo-Hernandez

Laetitia Bariat

Lucia C Strader

Jean-Philippe Reichheld

Christophe Belin
email: christophe.belin@univ-perp.fr

Jana Cela-Udaondo

Véronique Sureda

Jean-Philippe Reichheld

Jean-Philippe Reichheld

Renu Deswal

Jean-Philippe Reichheld

Laura Martins

Jean-Philippe Reichheld

Ina Thormählen
email: thormaehlen@bio.lmu.de

Belén Naranjo

Jean-Philippe Reichheld

Francisco Javier Cejudo

Peter Geigenberger

Ulrich Lüttge

J.-P Reichheld

Contribution of Glutaredoxins in Lateral Root Development

Keywords: Lateral root, glutaredoxin, GRXS17, ROXY19, Abscisic Acid (ABA) nucleus, thiol, glutathione, thioredoxin, glutaredoxin, ROS

Lateral roots are essential structures of the root system. They are crucial for the uptake of nutrients and water from the soil. Lateral roots initiate from the primary root and their development is controlled by a broad number of molecular pathways. Glutaredoxins are thiol-disulfide proteins involved in the control of reactive oxygen species homeostasis, as well as the activity of several enzymes implicated in plant development. However, little is known about their functions in lateral root formation. By genetic an in silico analyses, we demonstrate the specific contribution of glutaredoxins ROXY19 and GRXS17 in lateral root initiation and growth. ROXY19 and GRXS17 genes are differentially and highly expressed in different stages of the lateral root primordia formation. Analysis of knock-out plants revealed a contrasted role of ROXY19 and GRXS17 in lateral root development.

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Plants lacking ROXY19 increased both the density and the elongation rate of lateral roots, and modulates lateral roots responses to abscisic acid. However, in the grxs17 mutant, lateral root primordia development is impaired. Moreover, an EMS-based screening allowed us to isolate mutants that are able to suppress the primary root and/or lateral root phenotype of the grxs17 mutant. This study strengthens the importance of redox regulation during lateral root development and offers new perspectives to unravel these mechanisms.

I would like to say thank you to my parents Jose and Luz Maria that even if they were not physically present during my Ph.D., their moral support was critical to reaching my goals.

Studying a Ph.D. is a difficult task because it requires discipline, intelligence, and talent, but is easier when you have good professors to show you the way. For this reason, I want to say thanks to Jean-Philippe and Christophe Belin for not giving up on me and show me instead of how to do science.

To all the people that I had the opportunity to meet in Perpignan, especially Myriam, Sandrine, Ben, Beren, Anaid, Meli, Aleix, Caro, el Grec, Victor, Alejandra, Jean-Baptiste, Annia, Hadjer, Saionara, Zac, and Rafa, for taking the time to know me better, and share with me so many moments. Eventhough some of them were not as happy ones as we could wish, it made stronger our friendship... I wish you all the best. To all my current and former colleagues from the LGDP which are very nice people and excellent scientists, I wish you success in their professional and personal projects to come. I would also like to say an especially thank you to my friends Salvatore, Alheli, Charlotte, Hernandez, Celso, Panpan, Ariadna, Moaine, and Olka that made my daily work more pleasant with their occurrences and good talks.

I want to say also thank you to the all people of the University of Perpignan for allowing me to perform my studies in this institution, in which the people from the LGDP have an especially mention, particularly Claire, Veronique, and Laëtitia. Without their assistance, experience and knowledge, I could not have made the same advances in my work.

I would like to say thanks as well to the members of the Ph.D. committee, Lucia STRADER, Cécile BOUSQUET-ANTONELLI, and Laurent LAPLAZE, who were actively involved in my formation through interesting discussion and advice during these three years of my Ph.D. I would like to say a special thanks to Lucia Strader and Jerry Cohen for hosting me in their laboratories in the United States for almost three weeks, they are incredible as people as well as scientists. Moreover, I want to say thanks for having been key elements of my formation.

Finally I want to thank the Mexican government and CONACYT who gave me all the economic support that I needed to obtain a doctoral degree.

Table of Contents

General Introduction

This manuscript aims to describe the research that I have done during my Ph.D., which was focused on deciphering the roles of IBA and glutathione in the control of the root development. For this reason, the following general introduction covers several important aspects of root development as well as IBA and glutathione functions. (Puttick et al., 2018b;[START_REF] Salamon | Putative Late Ordovician land plants[END_REF][START_REF] Shekhar | The role of plant root systems in evolutionary adaptation[END_REF][START_REF] Szövényi | Evolution of the plant body plan[END_REF]. Indeed, cryptospores (ancient spores) were found in Argentina and Saudi-Arabia that were dated to the middle Ordovician, suggesting the supercontinent Gondwana was the place in which land plants first appeared [START_REF] Rubinstein | Early Middle Ordovician evidence for land plants in Argentina (eastern Gondwana)[END_REF][START_REF] Salamon | Putative Late Ordovician land plants[END_REF]. The establishment of the ancient events and ancestors, that led to the evolution from algae to land plants have been a

difficult task to achieve, due to the lack of fossil evidence, the limited information from the phylogenetic analyses, and the impossibility for experimental validation. However, it is well accepted in the scientific community, that the acquisition to perform photosynthesis by eukaryotic cells around 700-1500 mya, marked the first event in the evolution of land plants [START_REF] Leliaert | Into the deep: New discoveries at the base of the green plant phylogeny[END_REF]. According with fossil data and phylogenetic studies, the evolution of Chlorophyta lineage that appeared during the Tonian period to land plants was a slow process that took millions of years, and consisted in the acquisition of new evolutive adaptation, such as the occurrence of a vascular system, new organs like roots that increase the ability of the absorption of nutrients and attachment to the soil, as well as physiological systems that allowed the diversification and survived of terrestrial plants to the different ground such as seeds and flowers. This figure is adapted from Shekhar et al 2018.

The resulting unicellular photosynthetic organisms evolved later on glaucophytes, green and red algae, and subsequently the green algae into the Chlorophyta and the Streptophyta lineages. From the Streptophyta lineage two classes of the photosynthetic organism were derived, the Charophyte and the Embryophytes (land plants) lineages, in which the Charales, Coleochaetales, and Zygnematales are more closely related with the terrestrial plants (Figure I.1) [START_REF] Sagan | On the Origin of Mitosing Cdls[END_REF][START_REF] Karol | The closest living relatives of land plants[END_REF][START_REF] Mccourt | Charophyte algae and land plant origins[END_REF]Keeling, 2010;Puttick et al., 2018a). Indeed, some Charophyte algae present several characteristics that are also shared by land plants such as plasmodesmata, apical growth, and branching. However, the evolution of algae to plant also include the appearance of new adaptive characteristics such as in the life cycle. This can be seen in the Charophyte algae, which are dominated by haploid phase (gametophyte), while the diploid phase (sporophyte) is restricted to the zygote. Land plants, in contrast, increase the diploid sporophytic phase , still a minority in the bryophytes clade, but becoming dominant with the appearance of tracheophytes [START_REF] Mccourt | Charophyte algae and land plant origins[END_REF]Puttick et al., 2018a;[START_REF] Bowman | Evolution and co-option of developmental regulatory networks in early land plants[END_REF][START_REF] Szövényi | Evolution of the plant body plan[END_REF]. Besides the change in the gametophyte/sporophyte life cycle dominance, tracheophytes also evolved new tissues and organs such as the root system, that was a critical innovation for the successful colonization of the land, and for the plant diversification. Due to the importance of both physiology and molecular mechanisms that govern the root growth, to understand the study that I performed during my PhD thesis, the evolution of the root system will be explained in more detail in the next section.

I.1.1.2 Root evolution

One of the most fascinating innovations of the plant kingdom, that allowed their ability to survive without the advantage of motion in the new land, was the evolution of a specialized new organ known as "root", that gave them the capacity to anchor to the ground, the perception of environmental cues and gravity, and allowed them to absorb nutrients and water beneath the soil [START_REF] Scheres | Root Development[END_REF][START_REF] Shekhar | The role of plant root systems in evolutionary adaptation[END_REF]. Based on several studies, It was concluded that roots were a recent adaptation in terrestrial plants, and they appeared for the first time around 420 to 359 million years ago in the Devonian period, and it is proposed that the first root-like structure was a rhizoid-based rooting system (RBRS) (Kenrick and Strullu-Derrien, 2014;[START_REF] Shekhar | The role of plant root systems in evolutionary adaptation[END_REF]. Indeed, fossil records of the Devonian prehistoric ecosystem, in the well-known Rhynie Chert in Scotland, showed that the basal part of land plants that was in contact to the soil was composed of RBRSs, that grew horizontally to the soil and performed functions similarly to true roots through the development of rhizoids (Figure I.2A and I.2B) [START_REF] Edwards | Embryophytic sporophytes in the Rhynie and Windyfield cherts[END_REF][START_REF] Hetherington | Bilaterally symmetric axes with rhizoids composed the rooting structure of the common ancestor of vascular plants[END_REF]. Rhizoids are cellular structures that are still present in both vascular and non-vascular plants, and are highly similar at the cellular level to root hairs of the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana. Their main function is to anchor primitive land plants to the soil, although they could participate in the acquisition of nutrients in a minor extent; rhizoids were also able to develop in the aerial axes of the land plants [START_REF] Edwards | Embryophytic sporophytes in the Rhynie and Windyfield cherts[END_REF][START_REF] Meister | An Ancient Mechanism Controls the Development of Cells with a Rooting Function in Land Plants[END_REF]Kenrick and Strullu-Derrien, 2014;[START_REF] Honkanen | The Mechanism Forming the Cell Surface of Tip-Growing Rooting Cells Is Conserved among Land Plants[END_REF]. Due to the lack of well-preserved evidence, the hypothesis that roots evolved from a rhizoid-based rooting system is still debated. However, fossil records preserved from extinct species belonging to the genus Zosterophyllum (413 mya from the Devonian period of time) showed an intermediated root-like structure, that suggest that it was likely that for the evolution of true roots, there was first a change in the growth orientation from horizontal in RBRS to vertically in vascular plants accompanied with small ramifications (Figure I.2C and I.2D) [START_REF] Hao | Earliest rooting system and root : SShoot ratio from a new Zosterophyllum plant[END_REF]. Thereafter, the evolution of new adaptations in land plants such as gravitropic sensing, meristem-dependent tissue development, and the appearance of the root cap distinguished true roots from RBRS [START_REF] Raven | Roots: evolutionary origins and biogeochemical significance[END_REF]. However, the earliest evidence of true roots come from the Carboniferous period of time, and belong to species of Lycophyta, extinct trees that were more than 50 meters of height, and according to the fossil records they were attached to the soil by branching roots covered by root hairs, this early roots are known as stigmarian system, and it is believed that this system was produced by modified leaves (Figure I.2E and I.2F). The discovery of the root system in the ancient Lycophyta trees, and their further examination give the origin for an alternative hypothesis for the evolution of roots, that postulated that is likely that roots evolved from leaves instead of rhizoids (Hetherington et al., 2016;[START_REF] Szövényi | Evolution of the plant body plan[END_REF]. Besides the different theories about the tissue origin of roots, there is a consensus in the scientific community, that agrees that the evolution of roots took place independently in Lycophyta and Euphyllophyta lineages, and even they evolved in a different manner within the Euphyllophyta clade. Dicots (e.g. arabidopsis and carrot) and monocots (e.g. maize and rice) of the Angiosperms lineage present different root system architecture profiles. As it is shown in the top panel, the RSA of both classes of Angiosperm is dominated by the primary root in the early stages of development, while in monocots the dominance of the root system by the primary root is substituted by the increasing number of adventitious roots in mature plants (low panel). This figure is adapted from [START_REF] Bellini | Adventitious Roots and Lateral Roots: Similarities and Differences[END_REF] This hypothesis is supported by the great phenotypic variation from different Angiosperms root systems (Kenrick and Strullu-Derrien, 2014;[START_REF] Baars | Review of plant evolution and its effect on climate during the time of the Old Red Sandstone[END_REF][START_REF] Shekhar | The role of plant root systems in evolutionary adaptation[END_REF][START_REF] Szövényi | Evolution of the plant body plan[END_REF].

I.1.1.3 Root system variation in Angiosperms

Adaptation is one of the principal forces that drive the evolution of the root system, and the variation among close relatives within the same clade. Moreover, differences in the root system architecture can be observed in the same specie depending on the biocomposition of the soil, as well as the nutrients status in the ground, which bold the extraordinary plasticity of the roots. Overall, there are two classes of root system architecture: fibrous and taproot, that both are defined by the distribution and size of the primary root, adventitious roots, as well as the arrangement of secondary and tertiary roots [START_REF] Smith | Root system architecture: Insights from Arabidopsis and cereal crops[END_REF][START_REF] Shekhar | The role of plant root systems in evolutionary adaptation[END_REF]. During germination, the first root structure that appears is the radicle, from which the primary root develops. Taproot is characterized by the dominance of the primary root after germination and from which secondary lateral roots develop. This class of root system, also known as allorhizic, is presented in eudicots species of the angiosperm lineage such as Arabidopsis thaliana, and Daucus carota (carrots) (Figure I.3). While fibrous root system, also known as homorhizic root, is observed in land plants from the monocots clade. Contrary to taproots, the primary root is important during germination, thereafter post-embryonic secondary roots dominate the root system architecture, developing other root organs known as adventitious roots (growing from shoot tissues rather than the primary root, and present also in eudicots).

Examples of post-embryonic adventitious roots are crowns and brace roots, that can be seen in the root system architecture of important commercial crop species of monocots like Zea mays (corn) and Oryza sativa (Figure I.3) [START_REF] Bellini | Adventitious Roots and Lateral Roots: Similarities and Differences[END_REF]. Due to the importance of the root system architecture for the survival, and adaptation of the plant to different constraints in the soil environment, the study of the actors and mechanism that govern the root system plasticity is an important topic in plant biology. In this regard,

Arabidopsis thaliana has been demonstrated to be an excellent model for the study of the root system, mostly due to the simplicity of its root system, and the broad number of techniques, that have been developed for this plant model [START_REF] Shekhar | The role of plant root systems in evolutionary adaptation[END_REF].

Figure I.4. Primary root anatomy

In (A) is shown the cell types and tissues that composed the root apical meristem in Arabidopsis, that is critical for the development and growth of the root system. In (B) the well known zones of the primary root, each of them being characterized by changes in cell division, development and proliferation. Scale bar = 50µM. Figure adapted from [START_REF] Barrada | Spatial regulation of root growth: Placing the plant TOR pathway in a developmental perspective[END_REF].

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For this reason, and because it is the model that I used for the study presented in this Ph.D. thesis, in the next sections, I am going to describe more in details the different tissues and zones that compose the root system, using mostly the information available from Arabidopsis thaliana.

I.1.2

Root system architecture in Arabidopsis as a model of study

I.1.2.1 The primary root anatomy

Despite the complex processes that depend on the primary root, its architecture is remarkably simple. In Arabidopsis, it is composed by a radial arrangement of seven well characterized types of tissue, that come from four types of stem cells, also known as initial cells, that are localized in the root tip, more precisely in the distal part of the Root Apical Meristem (Figure I.4A). The central part of the primary root are the vascular tissues (stele), that is responsible for the transport of metabolites, nutrients, and water across the entire plant, and they developed from one type of stem cells; this class of initials cells also give rise to the pericycle layer of the root. The cortex and the endodermis tissues come from the second class of initials, while the epidermis and the lateral root cap that are important layers for protection against mechanical damage, are formed from another type of initials cells [START_REF] Scheres | Root Development[END_REF]. The columella is the only tissue of the root tip that is developed from his own class of stem cells, and together with the lateral root cap form the root cap that protects the meristem of the growing root against mechanical abrasion, while ensuring other important functions including regulation of the gravitropism [START_REF] Blancaflor | Mapping the Functional Roles of Cap Cells in the Response of Arabidopsis Primary Roots to Gravity 1[END_REF].

In to the middle of the four classes of initial cells, there is a small group of cells known as quiescent center (QC), that is characterized by its low mitotic activity, and is determinant for maintaining the specification of the stem cells niche [START_REF] Van Den Berg | Shortrange control of cell differentiation in the Arabidopsis root meristem[END_REF].

Besides the different classes of tissues that compose the root, this organ is divided into four distinct zones according to their cellular activity (Figure I.4B). In the distal part of the apical root, there is a part known as meristem zone (MZ), that is characterized by a high rate of mitotic cell division; after several rounds of division the daughter cells make a switch in the transition zone (TZ) from division to cellular enlargement (elongation zone;

ET), the TZ in the primary root is clearly identified by observing the increased size of the 1 1 cortical cells, and recently this zone has been catching the attention of scientists, due to the discoveries from several studies, that showed that the TZ is a point for hormonal cross-talk and sensing endogenous and extracellular signals, that ultimately control the growth of the primary root, as well as modulate the plasticity of the root system [START_REF] Barrada | Spatial regulation of root growth: Placing the plant TOR pathway in a developmental perspective[END_REF][START_REF] Kong | The Root Transition Zone: A Hot Spot for Signal Crosstalk[END_REF]. In the elongation zone, the cells develop the central vacuole, accompanied by modification in the cell wall that allows the increase of the cell size, mainly in the apico-basal direction [START_REF] Anderson | Real-Time Imaging of Cellulose Reorientation during Cell Wall Expansion in Arabidopsis Roots[END_REF]. When the cell reaches a proper size, elongated cells from different tissues enter a process of specialization in the so-called differentiation zone (DZ), in which several molecular events led to the formation of new organs such as secondary roots, and the specialization of epidermal cells that are characterized by the development of root hairs, both events will be described in more in detail in the next section [START_REF] Scheres | Root Development[END_REF][START_REF] Kong | The Root Transition Zone: A Hot Spot for Signal Crosstalk[END_REF].

I.1.2.2 Root hair development

The differentiaton zone is the site in which root cells acquire specialization, easily visible in the vasculature tissue, endodermis, and root epidermis. In the epidermis some cells develop a tubular extension known as root hair. Epidermal cells that developed the root hair are called trichoblasts and non-root-hair cells are called atrichoblasts [START_REF] Dolan | Cellular organisation of the Arabidopsis thaliana root[END_REF]. The molecular mechanism that determines whether cells will become either root-hair or non-root-hair cells, highly depends on the position of the epidermal cells within the root. In Arabidopsis, cells that are in the junction of two cortical cells ("H" position) are trichoblasts, and cells that are adjacent to one cortical cell ("N" position) will be unable to develope root hair (Figure I.5A) [START_REF] Balcerowicz | Cell Fate Determination and the Switch from Diffuse Growth to Planar Polarity in Arabidopsis Root Epidermal Cells[END_REF][START_REF] Salazar-Henao | The regulation and plasticity of root hair patterning and morphogenesis[END_REF].

In the N cells, there is an accumulation of the transcription factors WEREWOLF (WER) and MYB23 that interact with a basic Helix-Loop-Helix transcription factor GLABRA3 (GL3), and ENHANCER OF GLABRA3 (EGL3) that with TRANSPARENT TESTA GLABRA (TTG) protein, they form a system that induce the expression of the transcription factor GLABRA2 (GL2) that prevents the expression of the bHLH transcription factor ROOT HAIR DEFECTIVE 6 (RHD6).

The activity of RHD6 is necessary for the expression of genes involved in the activation of root hair development [START_REF] Rerie | The GLABRA2 gene encodes a homeo domain protein required for normal tnchome development in Arabidopsis[END_REF][START_REF] Lee | WEREWOLF, a MYB-related protein in Arabidopsis, is a position-dependent regulator of epidermal cell patterning[END_REF][START_REF] Walker | The TRANSPARENT TESTA GLABRA1 Locus, Which Regulates Trichome Differentiation and Anthocyanin Biosynthesis in Arabidopsis, Encodes a WD40 Repeat Protein[END_REF][START_REF] Payne | GL3 Encodes a bHLH Protein That Regulates Trichome Development in Arabidopsis Through Interaction With GL1 and TTG1[END_REF][START_REF] Esch | A contradictory GLABRA3 allele helps define gene interactions controlling trichome development in Arabidopsis[END_REF][START_REF] Zhang | A network of redundant bHLH proteins functions in all TTG1-dependent pathways of Arabidopsis[END_REF]. Interestingly, it has been proposed that GL3/EGL3/TTG complex induces the expression of the transcription factors CAPRICE (CPC), TRIPTYCHON (TRY), and ENHANCER OF TRY AND CPC1 (ETC1), that are able to migrate to the H cells, in which they inactivate the GL3/EGL3/TTG protein complex, forming a negative loop to suppress the expression of GL2 in H cells. These mechanisms allow the transcription of genes involved in the root hair development, such as the bHLH transcription factors ROOT HAIR DEFECTIVE 6-LIKE 2 and 4 (RSL2 and RSL4), in which RSL4 has been shown to be determinant for the size and expansion of the root hairs, as well as LOTUS JAPONICUS ROOTHAIRLESS1-LIKE (LRL1 and LRL2) transcription factors, that are involved in the root hair morphogenesis during nutritional responses [START_REF] Schellmann | TRIPTYCHON and CAPRICE mediate lateral inhibition during trichome and root hair patterning in Arabidopsis[END_REF][START_REF] Wada | Role of a positive regulator of root hair development, CAPRICE, in Arabidopsis root epidermal cell differentiation[END_REF]Kirik et al., 2004;[START_REF] Yi | A basic helix-loop-helix transcription factor controls cell growth and size in root hairs[END_REF][START_REF] Bruex | A gene regulatory network for root epidermis cell differentiation in Arabidopsis[END_REF][START_REF] Datta | Intensity of a pulse of RSL4 transcription factor synthesis determines Arabidopsis root hair cell size[END_REF][START_REF] Lan | Omics' Approaches Towards Understanding Plant Phosphorus Acquisition and Use[END_REF][START_REF] Salazar-Henao | The regulation and plasticity of root hair patterning and morphogenesis[END_REF]. Moreover, the transcription factor TRY induces the expression of the leucine repeat receptor-like kinase SCRAMBLED (SCM), that is specifically expressed in H cells, and reinforce the inhibition of the activity of the GL3/EGL3/TTG1 system by blocking the transcription factor WER. In addition, it has been showed that the zinc-finger protein JACKDAW (JKD) acts upstream of the SCM enzyme (Figure I.5A) (Kwak andSchiefelbein, 2007, 2008;[START_REF] Kwak | Distinct Signaling Mechanisms in Multiple Developmental Pathways by the SCRAMBLED Receptor of Arabidopsis[END_REF]. The importance of the GL3/EGL3/TTG system to determine the specialization of the epidermal cells into trichoblast and atrichoblast, is demonstrated by the increased number of trichoblast cells that is observed after down-regulation of any of the members of the GL3/EGL3/TTG system [START_REF] Galway | The TTG Gene Is Required to Specify Epidermal Cell Fate and Cell Patterning in the Arabidopsis Root[END_REF][START_REF] Bernhardt | The bHLH genes GLABRA3 (GL3) and ENHANCER OF GLABRA3 (EGL3) specify epidermal cell fate in the Arabidopsis root[END_REF][START_REF] Zhang | A network of redundant bHLH proteins functions in all TTG1-dependent pathways of Arabidopsis[END_REF][START_REF] Balcerowicz | Cell Fate Determination and the Switch from Diffuse Growth to Planar Polarity in Arabidopsis Root Epidermal Cells[END_REF].

Besides the mechanism described above, downstream events such as cell polarity, and intracellular changes in trichoblast cells are determinant for the proper growth of the root hairs [START_REF] Balcerowicz | Cell Fate Determination and the Switch from Diffuse Growth to Planar Polarity in Arabidopsis Root Epidermal Cells[END_REF]. In trichoblasts, the cellular polarity is determined by the accumulation of the protein RHO GTPase (RAC/ROP) in the plasma membrane, which correlates with the site of root hair emergence (Figure I.5B). [START_REF] Bibikova | Localized changes in apoplastic and cytoplasmic pH are associated with root hair development in Arabidopsis thaliana[END_REF].

Indeed, overexpression of the ROP2 GTPase gene led to the formation of more than one root hair in a single trichoblast cell in Arabidopsis, which demonstrated the critical role of the proper level of ROP2 in specific plasma membrane sites for the normal root hair development [START_REF] Molendijk | Arabidopsis thaliana Rop GTPases are localized to tips of root hairs and control polar growth[END_REF][START_REF] Jones | The Arabidopsis Rop2 GTPase Is a Positive Regulator of Both Root Hair Initiation and Tip Growth[END_REF]. Moreover, other members of the RHO GTPase family protein have been shown to be involved in the establishment of the cell polarity, such as ROP4 and ROP6, that are also localized in the plasma membrane during the root hair development. Overexpression of both ROP4 and ROP6, led to a mislocalization of the cell polarity that modified the normal gradient of Ca 2+ that is required for root hair elongation [START_REF] Schiefelbein | Calcium influx at the tip of growing roothair cells of Arabidopsis thaliana[END_REF][START_REF] Molendijk | Arabidopsis thaliana Rop GTPases are localized to tips of root hairs and control polar growth[END_REF].

Besides the polarization of the trichoblast cells that is highly dependent of members of the ROP family, there are also changes in the distribution of the pH within the cell. It has been shown by fluorescent histochemical analyses, that the cell wall of trichoblast cells are more acid than the cytosol (Figure I.5C). Those changes in the subcellular pH distribution have been demonstrated to be critical for the normal progression of the cell outgrowth of trichoblast [START_REF] Bibikova | Localized changes in apoplastic and cytoplasmic pH are associated with root hair development in Arabidopsis thaliana[END_REF][START_REF] Carol | Building a hair: Tip growth in Arabidopsis thaliana root hairs[END_REF][START_REF] Balcerowicz | Cell Fate Determination and the Switch from Diffuse Growth to Planar Polarity in Arabidopsis Root Epidermal Cells[END_REF]. Besides epidermal cells specialization, in the differentiation zone also takes place the development of post-embryonic organs known as lateral roots.

I.1.2.3 Lateral root formation

Lateral roots (LR) are new organs that grow from pericycle cells adjacent to xylem cells, that have acquired the status of founder cellsvia oscillating endogenous developmental signals and environmental conditions. Upon initiating signals, the founder cells start to divide and produce a Lateral Root Primordium (LRP) that will pass eight developmental stages in the differentiation zone to become a mature organ, as illustrated in Figure I.6A [START_REF] Dubrovsky | Pericycle Cell Proliferation and Lateral Root Initiation in Arabidopsis[END_REF][START_REF] Vilches-Barro | Talking through walls: Mechanisms of lateral root emergence in Arabidopsis thaliana[END_REF]. In the first stage, founder cells enter to a round of anticlinal division to produce one cellular layer, subsequently, they divide periclinally to form a two-layer of cells in stage II. Additional divisions take place in stage III and IV to produce four layers of cells, that in stage V through expansion and division acquires a dome-shaped structure that crosses from the endodermis to the cortex layer of the primary root. In the stage VI the LRP starts to resemble the meristem of the primary root that in stage VII reaches the epidermis. Finally, the last stage VIII also called "emergence" is the moment in which the LRP emerges from the epidermis of the primary root, giving rise to the new lateral root (Malamy and Benfey, 1997;Casimiro et al., 2003).

While the formation of the lateral root primordium takes place in the differentiation zone, the specification for the xylem pole pericycle cells to become founder cells occurs early in the transition and elongation zone of the root, in which it has been described oscillation of gene expression every six hours (oscillation zone, OZ). This process is known as "priming" and is essential for the subsequent determination of pre-branch sites, that mark which cells will become founder cells and form lateral root primordia (Figure I.6B and I.6C) (Moreno-Risueno et al., 2010). Indeed, mutations in some of the genes that are expressed in the OZ, particularly transcription factors such as MADS-box proteins, AUXIN RESPONSE FACTORs (ARFs), and NAC showed impairments in the number of both lateral root and pre-branch sites, which demonstrated the importance of the early activation of specific genes in the OZ for the LR development. However, it has been

shown that not all pericycle cells that experience this oscillatory gene activation are destined to become founder cells, which suggest that additional downstream mechanisms are involved in this process (Moreno-Risueno et al., 2010;[START_REF] Van Norman | To branch or not to branch: the role of pre-patterning in lateral root formation[END_REF].

Experiments performed in the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana have been unraveling several aspects of the modulation of the LR formation. Genetic and molecular analyses have demonstrated that during lateral root initiation, the activation of the AUXIN/ INDOLE-3-ACETIC ACID (AUX/IAA) negative regulators of the transcription factors AUXIN RESPONSE FACTORS (ARFs) are critical for the asymmetric division of pericycle cells [START_REF] Smet | Bimodular auxin response controls organogenesis in Arabidopsis[END_REF][START_REF] Jung | Getting to the roots of it: Genetic and hormonal control of root architecture[END_REF]. Indeed, the slr-1 mutant of the gene that encodes the AUX/IAA14 was unable to form lateral roots due to the arrest in pericycle cell division. Its activity is required for the expression of BODENLOS (BDL)/IAA12-MONOPTEROS (MP)/ ARF5, that together with other ARF are determinant for the proper lateral root initiation process [START_REF] Fukaki | Lateral root formation is blocked by a gain-of-function mutation in the SOLITARY-ROOT/IAA14 gene of Arabidopsis[END_REF][START_REF] Smet | Bimodular auxin response controls organogenesis in Arabidopsis[END_REF].

Besides that modulation of LR formation by transcription factors, it has also been demonstrated by genetic experiments, that the down-regulation of the KIP-RELATED PROTEIN2 ( KRP2 ) gene that encodes a cyclin-dependent kinases (CDKs) inhibitor, it is critical for the early events of lateral root formation, by controlling the transition from G1

to S phase of the pericycle cell cycle, which is determinant for the initiation of the lateral root primordia [START_REF] Himanen | Auxin-Mediated Cell Cycle Activation during Early Lateral Root Initiation[END_REF]Casimiro et al., 2003).

Until now, I have been describing the anatomy of the primary root, the specification of the root hairs, and the key mechanism that govern the development of lateral roots, which is highly important to understand the magnificent plasticity of the root system, critical for responses to changes in environmental constraints. It is well known that nutrient status, biotic and abiotic stresses induce changes in the size of the primary root, as well as the number and length of post-embryonic new organs and specialized cells (such as in the case of root hairs). For this reason, the next section will aim to give some examples of biotic and abiotic factors that induce changes in the root system architecture.

I.1.3

Root system responses to environmental conditions I.1.3.1 Effect of abiotic stress conditions in the root architecture

Lateral root formation and root hair growth are modulated in response to different environmental factors. For example, during abiotic stress conditions such as drought, changes in temperature or excess of salt in the rhizosphere (defined as the surrounding soil area that interacts with the root system), there is a decrease in water availability known as osmotic stress, which induces molecular modifications that alter the root system architecture. This process is modulated by the plant hormone abscisic acid (ABA).

Abscisic acid is well known for its roles in controlling plant germination and aperture of the stomatal pore, and as a master regulator of stress-responsive genes [START_REF] Finkelstein | Abscisic Acid Signaling in Seeds and Seedlings[END_REF][START_REF] Nemhauser | Different Plant Hormones Regulate Similar Processes through Largely Nonoverlapping Transcriptional Responses[END_REF][START_REF] Xiong | Identification of Drought Tolerance Determinants by Genetic Analysis of Root Response to Drought Stress and Abscisic Acid[END_REF][START_REF] Danquah | The role of ABA and MAPK signaling pathways in plant abiotic stress responses[END_REF]Kim et al., 2016).

In the root system, exogenous application of elevated concentration of ABA have a negative effect on the growth of the primary root, lateral roots, and root hairs length, an effect also observed during osmotic stress conditions [START_REF] Schnall | Abscisic Acid Elicits the Water-Stress Response in Root Hairs of Arabidopsis thaliana[END_REF]Duan et al., 2013;Zhao et al., 2014;[START_REF] Rymen | ABA Suppresses Root Hair Growth via the OBP4 Transcriptional Regulator[END_REF]. Moreover, exogenous application of ABA reduced the number of lateral roots, an effect that is suppressed in the mutant of Flowering time control protein (FCA), that has been proposed to directly bind ABA [START_REF] Razem | The RNA-binding protein FCA is an abscisic acid receptor[END_REF]. The negative effect of ABA in the number of lateral roots has been shown to occur after the emergence of the LRP, and just before the activation of the meristem of the mature lateral root, which it is not dependent on the Arabidopsis ABAinsensitive (ABI) genes [START_REF] Smet | An abscisic acid-sensitive checkpoint in lateral root development of Arabidopsis[END_REF][START_REF] Davoine | Adducts of Oxylipin Electrophiles to Glutathione Reflect a 13 Specificity of the Downstream Lipoxygenase Pathway in the Tobacco Hypersensitive Response[END_REF]. Several studies focusing on the ABA response of lateral roots, demonstrated that the effect of the plant hormone in the lateral roots is more complex than previously thought. Roots under stress conditions and with exogenous ABA showed the normal arrest in the elongation of the primary root and lateral roots. However, authors also showed a subsequent recovery phase in the growth of both root organs. These changes in the kinetics of the growth suggest an evolutionary adaptive response to overpass osmotic stress, and at least in the lateral roots, it has been shown to be mediated by the ABA receptor PYRABACTIN RESISTANCE 1-LIKE PROTEIN (PYL8) [START_REF] Geng | A Spatio-Temporal Understanding of Growth Regulation during the Salt Stress Response in Arabidopsis[END_REF]Zhao et al., 2014).

While water deficit can cause a substantial change in the root architecture, lacking nutrients also alter the growth of the root system. Nitrogen is a macro-element that is uptake by the roots in the form of nitrate and is essential for normal growth of the plant.

Indeed, variations in the concentration of nitrogen in the culture medium alter the plasticity of the root system [START_REF] Kant | Understanding plant response to nitrogen limitation for the improvement of crop nitrogen use efficiency[END_REF]. In the absence of nitrogen, Arabidopsis plants present a decrease in the primary root growth and lateral root density, but conversely increases the rate of lateral root elongation [START_REF] Remans | The Arabidopsis NRT1.1 transporter participates in the signaling pathway triggering root colonization of nitrate-rich patches[END_REF][START_REF] Krouk | Nitrate-Regulated Auxin Transport by NRT1.1 Defines a Mechanism for Nutrient Sensing in Plants[END_REF]. Root responses to N-deprivation seem to be mediated by the nitrogen transport NTR1.1, a plasma membrane protein that is involved in sensing nitrogen availability, and there are strong evidence of the role of NTR1.1 in the control of the auxin transport, that is required for normal response to N-deprivation [START_REF] Remans | The Arabidopsis NRT1.1 transporter participates in the signaling pathway triggering root colonization of nitrate-rich patches[END_REF][START_REF] Krouk | Nitrate-Regulated Auxin Transport by NRT1.1 Defines a Mechanism for Nutrient Sensing in Plants[END_REF].

In contrast to the effect of nitrogen availability in the LR number, phosphorusdeprivation induces lateral root density. However, as in N-deprivation event, the absence of phosphorous produces an increase in the elongation of the lateral roots and increments the root hair length (Bates and Lynch, 1996;[START_REF] Linkohr | Nitrate and phosphate availability and distribution have different effects on root system architecture of Arabidopsis[END_REF][START_REF] Shin | Reactive Oxygen Species and Root Hairs in Arabidopsis Root Response to Nitrogen, Phosphorus and Potassium Deficiency[END_REF]. It is still unknown which is the molecular mechanism that is involved in monitoring the extracellular and intracellular phosphorous levels. However, it is well known that during phosphorous deprivation, there is an induction of what is known as phosphate starvationinducible genes (PSI), that encodes phosphorous influx transporters, signaling proteins, and Pi-releasing enzymes that increase the uptake of phosphorous, such as PHT1.4, SPX1, and RNS1 [START_REF] Niu | Responses of root architecture development to low phosphorus availability: A review[END_REF][START_REF] López-Arredondo | Phosphate Nutrition: Improving Low-Phosphate Tolerance in Crops[END_REF][START_REF] Lan | Omics' Approaches Towards Understanding Plant Phosphorus Acquisition and Use[END_REF][START_REF] Puga | Novel signals in the regulation of Pi starvation responses in plants: facts and promises[END_REF][START_REF] Ham | Insights into plant phosphate sensing and signaling[END_REF]. The induction of PSI is mediated by the transcription factor PHOSPHATE STARVATION RESPONSE 1 (PHR1) and its activity is regulated by the members of the family of proteins SPX-domain, that are also involved in the inositol polyphosphates (InsP) sensing [START_REF] Puga | SPX1 is a phosphate-dependent inhibitor of PHOSPHATE STARVATION RESPONSE 1 in Arabidopsis[END_REF][START_REF] Wild | Control of eukaryotic phosphate homeostasis by inositol polyphosphate sensor domains[END_REF]. Genes involved in the control of the root hair elongation during phosphorous deprivation responses include the UBIQUITIN-SPECIFIC PROTEASE14 (UBP14/PER1), the homeodomain-containing protein ALFIN-LIKE6 (AL6/PER2), the ACTIN-RELATED PROTEIN6 (ARP6) involved in chromatin remodeling, and the OVARIAN TUMOR DOMAIN protein (OTU5).

Evidence of the roles of those genes in the root hair response during phosphorous deprivation is shown in the corresponding mutants that are impaired in the root hair elongation under phosphorous starvation conditions [START_REF] Li | Ubiquitin-Specific Protease 14 (UBP14) is Involved in Root Responses to Phosphate Deficiency in Arabidopsis[END_REF][START_REF] Smith | Histone H2A.Z Regulates the Expression of Several Classes of Phosphate Starvation Response Genes But Not as a Transcriptional Activator[END_REF][START_REF] Chandrika | ALFIN-LIKE 6 is involved in root hair elongation during phosphate deficiency in Arabidopsis[END_REF][START_REF] Suen | The Deubiquitinase OTU5 Regulates Root Responses to Phosphate Starvation[END_REF]. Besides the effect of the abiotic stress conditions such as water deficit and nutrients availability in the root architecture, biotic factors like microorganisms are also able to induce changes in the root system.

I.1.3.2 Root architecture responses to biotic stress

Underground, there is a broad number and types of microorganisms that habit the rhizospheric area and establish communication with the plant. It has been mentioned that there are around 10 6 -10 9 bacteria, and 10 5 -10 6 fungi per gram of soil that compete for carbon-based metabolites derived from the root [START_REF] Doornbos | Impact of root exudates and plant defense signaling on bacterial communities in the rhizosphere. A review[END_REF][START_REF] Chuberre | Plant Immunity Is Compartmentalized and Specialized in Roots[END_REF]. The effect of microorganisms on the root system depends on the species that establish the interaction with the root. Microorganisms such as Fusarium oxysporum, and Ralstonia solanacearum are well-known to cause severe soilborne-diseases on important crops species [START_REF] Haas | Biological Control of Soil-Borne Pathogens by Fluorescent Pseudomonads[END_REF]. The early response of the root system to a pathogenic infection is characterized by the arrest of the primary root elongation, which can be seen after the inoculation with the flagellar protein derived from Pseudomonas aeruginosa (Flg22) [START_REF] Millet | Innate Immune Responses Activated in Arabidopsis Roots by Microbe-Associated Molecular Patterns[END_REF][START_REF] Pečenková | Early Arabidopsis root hair growth stimulation by pathogenic strains of Pseudomonas syringae[END_REF]. Intriguingly, soilbornediseases can be naturally controlled by the microbiome status of the soil in what is known as disease-suppressive soil effect, which consists in the hard competition between some species of microorganisms for the uptake of nutrients produced by the plants in the rhizosphere [START_REF] Berendsen | The rhizosphere microbiome and plant health[END_REF][START_REF] Schlatter | Disease Suppressive Soils: New Insights from the Soil Microbiome[END_REF]. This phenomenon is exploited in several laboratories for the development of natural strategies to suppress pathogenic microorganisms [START_REF] Haas | Biological Control of Soil-Borne Pathogens by Fluorescent Pseudomonads[END_REF], in particularly the use of mutualistic interactions with a class of bacteria known as "Plant Growth-Promoting Bacteria" (PGPB).

This group is composed of different orders of bacterial species and can establish mutualistic interactions with the plants in the rhizosphere, which positively affects the capacity of the root to explore the soil and uptake nutrients [START_REF] Glick | Plant Growth-Promoting Bacteria: Mechanisms and Applications[END_REF]. The mechanisms by which PGPB induce positive changes in the root system, rely on either the modification of nutrients sources in the rhizosphere or by altering the levels of several plant hormones [START_REF] Ma | Strategies used by rhizobia to lower plant ethylene levels and increase nodulation[END_REF][START_REF] Glick | Plant Growth-Promoting Bacteria: Mechanisms and Applications[END_REF]Poitout et al., 2017). Bacterial species such as Rhizobium spp. are able to secrete nitrogenases that improve the fixation of nitrogen, as well as organic acids to increase the uptake of phosphorus [START_REF] Yanni | Natural Beneficial Association of Rhizobium leguminosarum bv. trifolii and Rice Roots and its Relevance to Sustainable Agriculture[END_REF]. Rhizobium spp. also induce changes in the root system by altering the levels of ethylene through the synthesis of rhizobitoxine, which inhibits the ACC synthase involved in the synthesis of ethylene [START_REF] Yuhashi | Rhizobitoxine production by Bradyrhizobium elkanii Enhances Nodulation and Competitiveness on Macroptilium atropurpureum[END_REF]. Other strains of Rhizobium produce ACC deaminase that catalyzes the conversion of 1-aminocyclopropane-1-carboxylate (ACC) to ammonium and α-ketobutyrate [START_REF] Ma | Strategies used by rhizobia to lower plant ethylene levels and increase nodulation[END_REF]. The reduction of the plant hormone ethylene by different Rhizobium strains induces changes in root system, that result in the expansion of the surface area to acquire nutrients from the soil. Some Plant Growth-Promoting Bacteria such as Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Klebsiella sp., Rhizobium sp., Mesorhizobium sp., among others, have also the capacity to secrete plant hormones that alter the root system, especially the endogenous auxin indole-3-acetic acid (IAA) a major player in the control of the root system [START_REF] Ahemad | Mechanisms and applications of plant growth promoting rhizobacteria: Current perspective[END_REF]. Because auxins are the major morphogenetic hormones in plants, the next section is dedicated to review what is known about the metabolism and functions of auxinic compounds.

I.2 AUXIN CONTROL OF ROOT DEVELOPMENT

I.2.1 General considerations

The term "auxin" comes from the Greek "auxein" that means "to grow" and is used to describe a class of plant hormones, that is involved in almost every pathway of the control of plant development [START_REF] Enders | Auxin activity: Past, present, and future[END_REF]. Early insights in the concept of auxin can be seen in the book "The Power of Movement in Plants" on chapter XI by Darwin and Darwin, in which they hypothesized that should exist an "influence" that is transported from the tip to the basal part of the plant, that causes the gravitropic effect observed in experiments with roots [START_REF] Darwin | THE POWER OF MOVEMENT IN PLANTS[END_REF]. few periods of incubation, it is highly evident the auxin affects the root system, which consists in the arrest on the primary root growth, an increase in the number of lateral roots and an increment in the root hair length. Arrows indicate the local effect in the root system, such as primary root elongation, lateral root, and root hair lengths.

However auxin (named heteroauxin) was first isolated in 1934 from humane urine by Kögl and Kostermans, and only in 1941 from higher plants by Haagen-Smit and coworkers (Kögl and Kostermaas, 1934;[START_REF] Haagen-Smit | ESTIMATION, ISOLATION AND IDENTIFICATION OF AUXINS IN PLANT MATERIAL[END_REF]. Contributions to the discovery of auxin compounds were made by the introgression of the "Avena test" developed by Went in 1928, which consists in the removal of the tip from coleoptiles of Avena sativa plants, and the placement of an agar cube containing the compound desired to be tested in one side of the tip. The auxin activity is therefore measured by the grade of curvature of the coleoptile in response to the compound [START_REF] Went | Wuchsstoff und Wachstum[END_REF]

(Figure I.7A).
The Avena test has now been replaced by more simple assays, that consist in the root system response to the auxin-related compounds (Figure I.7B and I.7C). Based on genetic and chemical strategies, it was possible to identify several molecules with auxinic effects in higher plants, such as Indole-3-acetic acid (IAA), 4-chloroindole-3-acetic acid (4-Cl-IAA), phenylacetic acid (PAA), indole-3-butyric acid (IBA), and indole-3-propionic acid (IprA), which can be found in different amounts in plants depending on the specie (Simon and Petrášek, 2011;[START_REF] Enders | Auxin activity: Past, present, and future[END_REF]. The most abundant auxin is indole-3-acetic acid (IAA), and it has been demonstrated to be a versatile molecule that controls cell division, cell elongation and cell differentiation.

Due to the plethora of functions that depend on auxin, its homeostasis and distribution are tightly regulated via complex networks of pathways, in which there are still several aspects not yet well understood [START_REF] Teale | Auxin in action: Signalling, transport and the control of plant growth and development[END_REF][START_REF] Strader | Auxin perception and downstream events[END_REF].

I.2.2 Auxin synthesis

Indole-3-acetic acid is de novo synthesized by two main pathways, the tryptophandependent pathway and the one independent on tryptophan.

In the Trp-dependent way, the production of the indole ring of the amino acid relies on the synthesis of chorismate from the so-called Shikimate pathway in plastids (Figure [START_REF] Tzin | New Insights into the shikimate and aromatic amino acids biosynthesis pathways in plants[END_REF][START_REF] Mano | The pathway of auxin biosynthesis in plants[END_REF][START_REF] Ljung | Auxin metabolism and homeostasis during plant development[END_REF]. Afterward, four precursors are produced in the cytosol derived from tryptophan: the indole-3-pyruvic acid (IPA), indole-3-acetamide (IAM), tryptamine (TAM), and the indole-3-acetaldoxime (IAOx), that by subsequent reactions are converted to IAA [START_REF] Ljung | Auxin metabolism and homeostasis during plant development[END_REF][START_REF] Enders | Auxin activity: Past, present, and future[END_REF]. Tryptophan aminotransferases TAA1, TAR1, and TAR2, catalyze the conversion of tryptophan to IPA which is then converted to IAA by the YUCCA (YUC) family of enzymes [START_REF] Tao | Rapid Synthesis of Auxin via a New Tryptophan-Dependent Pathway Is Required for Shade Avoidance in Plants[END_REF][START_REF] Yamada | The TRANSPORT INHIBITOR RESPONSE2 Gene Is Required for Auxin Synthesis and Diverse Aspects of Plant Development[END_REF][START_REF] Zhou | Functional characterization of the CKRC1/TAA1 gene and dissection of hormonal actions in the Arabidopsis root[END_REF]. The synthesis of IAA from IPA precursor is considered the main route in the synthesis of auxin in higher plants,

I.8)
and it has been shown that de novo synthesis of IAA from IPA is highly important for plant development [START_REF] Ljung | Auxin metabolism and homeostasis during plant development[END_REF]. Indeed, mutants impaired in the enzymes involved in the IPA pathway showed drastic phenotypes in Arabidopsis seedlings [START_REF] Yamada | The TRANSPORT INHIBITOR RESPONSE2 Gene Is Required for Auxin Synthesis and Diverse Aspects of Plant Development[END_REF][START_REF] Zhou | Functional characterization of the CKRC1/TAA1 gene and dissection of hormonal actions in the Arabidopsis root[END_REF]. Mutants plants of the TAA1 gene resulted in the impairment of the primary root growth, and defects in root gravitropism [START_REF] Zhou | Functional characterization of the CKRC1/TAA1 gene and dissection of hormonal actions in the Arabidopsis root[END_REF]. Moreover, mutants plants of the homologs of TAA1, produced less lateral roots and small root hairs, confirming the important roles of the IPA pathway in root development [START_REF] Yamada | The TRANSPORT INHIBITOR RESPONSE2 Gene Is Required for Auxin Synthesis and Diverse Aspects of Plant Development[END_REF]. Less is known about the synthesis of IAA from the other precursors derived from tryptophan. It has been proposed that tryptamine is produced by the activity of tryptophan decarboxylases and YUC enzymes, while IAOx, presumably existing only in the Brassicaceae clade, and it is formed by the activity of CYP79B2 and CYP79B3, both are cytochrome P450 enzymes [START_REF] Quittenden | Auxin Biosynthesis in Pea: Characterization of the Tryptamine Pathway[END_REF][START_REF] Ljung | Auxin metabolism and homeostasis during plant development[END_REF]. IAOx can derive as well the precursor IAM, which is converted to IAA by IAM hydrolases and the precursor Indole-3-acetonitrile (IAN) that is converted to IAA by Nitrilases (NITs) [START_REF] Nemoto | The NtAMI1 gene functions in cell division of tobacco BY-2 cells in the presence of indole-3acetamide[END_REF]. Intriguingly, the IAOx biosynthetic pathway also produces camalexin (CAM) and indole glucosinolates (Igs), which are important during defense responses to plant pathogens [START_REF] Bender | Indolic glucosinolates at the crossroads of tryptophan metabolism[END_REF][START_REF] Mano | The pathway of auxin biosynthesis in plants[END_REF][START_REF] Ljung | Auxin metabolism and homeostasis during plant development[END_REF].

Besides the de novo synthesis of IAA from tryptophan, auxin can be synthesized by pathways involving auxin conjugates with amino acids and sugars in reactions catalyzed by several hydrolase enzymes [START_REF] Ludwig-Müller | Auxin conjugates: Their role for plant development and in the evolution of land plants[END_REF][START_REF] Ljung | Auxin metabolism and homeostasis during plant development[END_REF]. Indeed, it has been shown by genetic studies that amidohydrolases mutants ilr1-1 and iar3-2 are resistant to IAAconjugates in the primary root elongation, suggesting the involvement of those enzymes in the synthesis of IAA from auxin conjugates [START_REF] Leclere | Characterization of a Family of IAA-Amino Acid Conjugate Hydrolases from Arabidopsis[END_REF]. Moreover, genes encoding ILR1, IAR3, and additional amidohydrolases, such as ILL1 and ILL2, are expressed differentially within the plant, which suggests that the synthesis of IAA from auxin-conjugates is important for the spatial control of auxin activities [START_REF] Rampey | A Family of Auxin-Conjugate Hydrolases That Contributes to Free Indole-3-Acetic Acid Levels during Arabidopsis Germination[END_REF]. The enzymatic reactions by which IAA is conjugated with different compounds, involve the activity of UDP-glucose transferases and amino acid conjugate synthetases [START_REF] Ludwig-Müller | Auxin conjugates: Their role for plant development and in the evolution of land plants[END_REF]. Members of the GH3 family of amino acid conjugate synthetases have been shown to be able to catalyze the conjugation of IAA with amide groups [START_REF] Ludwig-Müller | Auxin conjugates: Their role for plant development and in the evolution of land plants[END_REF]. It has been demonstrated that glucosyltransferase enzyme UGT84B1 is involved in the specific ester conjugation of IAA, by catalyzing the covalent link of the auxin with the hydroxyl group of a sugar moiety, which negatively controls the auxin activity of IAA (Jackson et al., 2002b,a). Indeed, ectopic expression of UGT84B1

gene produced an increase in IAA-glucose levels in Arabidopsis, and the transgenic lines are resistant to exogenous application of auxin (Jackson et al., 2002b,a).

It has been proposed that conjugation of auxin with amides and sugars is a mechanism to control auxin activity [START_REF] Leclere | Characterization of a Family of IAA-Amino Acid Conjugate Hydrolases from Arabidopsis[END_REF][START_REF] Staswick | The Tryptophan Conjugates of Jasmonic and Indole-3-Acetic Acids Are Endogenous Auxin Inhibitors[END_REF][START_REF] Ludwig-Müller | Auxin conjugates: Their role for plant development and in the evolution of land plants[END_REF]. Indeed, plants treated with exogenous auxin conjugates, such as IAA-Trp suppress the root responses to the active auxin IAA, suggesting that auxin-conjugates exert a negative control of auxin activity [START_REF] Staswick | The Tryptophan Conjugates of Jasmonic and Indole-3-Acetic Acids Are Endogenous Auxin Inhibitors[END_REF]. Moreover, it has been suggested as well that specific conjugation of IAA with the amino acids aspartate, and glutamate are molecular marks for the auxin degradation (Ludwig- [START_REF] Ludwig-Müller | Auxin conjugates: Their role for plant development and in the evolution of land plants[END_REF].

Besides auxin synthesis from different pathways, the auxin maxima required for the specific and normal auxin activity depend on a fine-tuned distribution of auxin in different tissues by specific auxin carriers, which represent another level of auxin homeostasis control.

I.2.3 Auxin transport

IAA is so far the most abundant type of endogenous auxin present in terrestrial plants. It is involved in a broad number of physiological and developmental processes.

Specific functions of IAA rely on the activity of specifically localized carriers that are able to control the flux of auxin through the entire plant. PIN-FORMED (PIN) proteins and members of the ATP Binding Cassette (ABC) family have been demonstrated to control the auxin efflux, while the uptake of auxin is facilitated by the AUXIN RESISTANT1/LIKE AUX1 (AUX1/LAX) family of transporters [START_REF] Teale | Auxin in action: Signalling, transport and the control of plant growth and development[END_REF]Strader and Bartel, 2011;[START_REF] Enders | Auxin activity: Past, present, and future[END_REF]. As shown in figure I.9, PIN, ABC, and AUX proteins are specifically localized in different tissues in the meristem, which suggests a complex regulation of auxin distribution in the root system [START_REF] Petrášek | Auxin transport routes in plant development[END_REF].

The family of PIN-FORMED carriers localized in cells and are divided into two classes. PIN1, PIN2, PIN3, PIN4, and PIN7 are considered to belong to the plasma membrane-localized "long PIN class" and are often polarly localized [START_REF] Gälweiler | Regulation of Polar Auxin Transport by AtPIN1 in Arabidopsis Vascular Tissue[END_REF]. PIN5, PIN6, and PIN8 are considered as "short PIN class", and are localized in the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) [START_REF] Enders | Auxin activity: Past, present, and future[END_REF].

PIN1 is mostly expressed in vascular tissue, but is also detected at a lower level in the epidermis and cortical cells [START_REF] Blilou | The PIN auxin efflux facilitator network controls growth and patterning in Arabidopsis roots[END_REF]. Loss-of-function of PIN1 in the wellknown pin-formed mutant, produces the strongest phenotype related with the auxin transport, that consists of the loss of apical meristem dominance, impairment of the development of the vascular tissue, gravitropic growth defects, and inflorescence abnormalities [START_REF] Okada | Requirement of the Auxin Polar Transport System in Early Stages of Arabidopsis Floral Bud Formation[END_REF][START_REF] Gälweiler | Regulation of Polar Auxin Transport by AtPIN1 in Arabidopsis Vascular Tissue[END_REF]. PIN2 has been demonstrated to be critical for the auxin transport that takes place in the root tip. It is localized in the cortical cells, in the root epidermis, and lateral root cap. Null-mutant of PIN2 decrease the growth of the primary root, display root gravitropic defects and show a decreased in the meristem size [START_REF] Müller | AtPIN2 defines a locus of Arabidopsis for root gravitropism control[END_REF][START_REF] Blilou | The PIN auxin efflux facilitator network controls growth and patterning in Arabidopsis roots[END_REF]. The plasma membrane PIN3 is expressed in several parts of the root, such as in the columella, pericycle, and vasculature tissues. Null alleles of the gene that encodes PIN3 show defects in the elongation of the primary root, as well as gravitropic and phototropic impairments in the apical growth [START_REF] Friml | Lateral relocation of auxin efflux regulator PIN3 mediates tropism in Arabidopsis[END_REF]. PIN4 is located around the quiescent center and in provascular cells, while PIN7 is located in the columella and also in the provascular root cells [START_REF] Blilou | The PIN auxin efflux facilitator network controls growth and patterning in Arabidopsis roots[END_REF]. Single mutants pin4 and pin7 did not show impairment in the primary root growth as in the case of other pin mutants, but they show impairment in cell division of the quiescent center, columella, and lateral root cap [START_REF] Blilou | The PIN auxin efflux facilitator network controls growth and patterning in Arabidopsis roots[END_REF]. While single pin mutants showed specific functions in the root development, it was demonstrated that there is a redundancy among the members of the PIN family. Indeed, in the triple mutant pin3 pin4 pin7, PIN1 is accumulated in the lateral and basal part of the endodermis, and PIN2 in the provascular cells. PIN4 showed an increase of expression in the columella cells in pin3 mutant and in the lateral root cap in the double mutant pin3 pin7 [START_REF] Blilou | The PIN auxin efflux facilitator network controls growth and patterning in Arabidopsis roots[END_REF].

Moreover, the strongest phenotypes that were observed involved combinations with the mutant pin2, which demonstrated the critical roles that PIN2 play in root development [START_REF] Blilou | The PIN auxin efflux facilitator network controls growth and patterning in Arabidopsis roots[END_REF]. Apart of the well-known eight PIN carriers that are in Arabidopsis, the group of professor Kleine-Vehn identified new members of the family of auxin intracellular transporters, based in the conserved structure of the PIN proteins this new class of auxin carriers is known as PIN-like transporters (PILS) [START_REF] Barbez | A novel putative auxin carrier family regulates intracellular auxin homeostasis in plants[END_REF]. This new family of transporters is composed of 7 members that are differentially expressed across the plant. PILS5 has been shown to be expressed in the transition zone of the root and together with PILS2, it has been demonstrated their roles in lateral root development.

Single mutants pils2 and pils5 resulted in an increased in lateral root density, a phenotype that is stronger in the double mutant pil2pils5 [START_REF] Barbez | A novel putative auxin carrier family regulates intracellular auxin homeostasis in plants[END_REF].

AUX1, LAX1, LAX2, and LAX3 are members of the (AUX1/LAX) family of transporters that have been shown to be involved in the influx of auxin, which is important during root development [START_REF] Petrášek | Auxin transport routes in plant development[END_REF][START_REF] Enders | Auxin activity: Past, present, and future[END_REF]. Indeed, AUX1 carrier is localized in the root apex in the columella, lateral root cap, and vasculature tissues in the upper side of the plasma membrane opposite to PIN carriers such as PIN1. The asymmetric localization of AUX1 with respect PIN carriers facilitate the auxin transport, which is demonstrated in the aux1 mutant, that is impaired in the acropetal IAA transport [START_REF] Swarup | Localization of the auxin permease AUX1 suggests two functionally distinct hormone transport pathways operate in the Arabidopsis root apex[END_REF]. Moreover, confocal analysis of the AUX1 expression revealed that it is also expressed in the differentiation zone of the root, in which it is critical for the root hair development, this is demonstrated in the mutant aux1 that showed a decreased in the length of the root hair compared to wild type plants [START_REF] Jones | Auxin transport through non-hair cells sustains roothair development[END_REF].

Phenotypic studies in the aux1 mutant showed also impairments in the oriented growth of the primary root, and a decrease in the number of mature lateral roots and lateral root primordia. The impairment in the lateral roots in aux1 is also present in the loss-offunction lax3, and shows an additive effect in the double mutant lax3 aux1 [START_REF] Swarup | Localization of the auxin permease AUX1 suggests two functionally distinct hormone transport pathways operate in the Arabidopsis root apex[END_REF][START_REF] Swarup | The auxin influx carrier LAX3 promotes lateral root emergence[END_REF]. [START_REF] Swarup | Localization of the auxin permease AUX1 suggests two functionally distinct hormone transport pathways operate in the Arabidopsis root apex[END_REF][START_REF] Swarup | The auxin influx carrier LAX3 promotes lateral root emergence[END_REF]. It was showed that LAX3 is expressed in the vasculature tissues and in cells adjacent to lateral root primordia, which give strong evidence for the critical role of the proper auxin transport for the development of the lateral root [START_REF] Swarup | The auxin influx carrier LAX3 promotes lateral root emergence[END_REF].

Besides PIN and AUX/LAX family of auxin carriers, ABCB1, ABCB4, ABCB19, and ABCB21 transporters of the ABC family are able to facilitate the non-polar auxin efflux. However, by genetic and auxin transport studies it was discovered that ABCB4 and ABCB21 are able to switch their activity to auxin influx when AUX proteins are not functional, or depending on cellular auxin levels [START_REF] Kamimoto | Arabidopsis ABCB21 is a Facultative Auxin Importer/Exporter Regulated by Cytoplasmic Auxin Concentration[END_REF][START_REF] Kubeš | The Arabidopsis concentration-dependent influx/efflux transporter ABCB4 regulates cellular auxin levels in the root epidermis[END_REF]. In agreement with the involvement of the auxin transport in the gravitropic growth, disruption of the members of the ABC auxin carriers induces gravitropic phenotype in roots [START_REF] Noh | Enhanced gravi-and phototropism in plant mdr mutants mislocalizing the auxin efflux protein PIN1[END_REF][START_REF] Lewis | Separating the Roles of Acropetal and Basipetal Auxin Transport on Gravitropism with Mutations in Two Arabidopsis Multidrug Resistance-Like ABC Transporter Genes[END_REF][START_REF] Mravec | Interaction of PIN and PGP transport mechanisms in auxin distribution-dependent development[END_REF]. ABCB4 has a strong expression in the elongation zone of the primary root and in lateral roots, and null mutations in the mutants atpgp4 demonstrated the important roles of ABCB4 in lateral root development, due to the increase in lateral root number and root hair length presented in atpgp4 compared to wild-type plants [START_REF] Santelia | MDR-like ABC transporter AtPGP4 is involved in auxin-mediated lateral root and root hair development[END_REF].

The auxin import activity in the root system together with the efflux carriers are critical for the formation of lateral roots, root hairs, and the gravitropic root growth, which bold the importance of the correct auxin distribution for normal root development [START_REF] Bennett | Arabidopsis AUX1 Gene: A Permease-Like Regulator of Root Gravitropism[END_REF][START_REF] Teale | Auxin in action: Signalling, transport and the control of plant growth and development[END_REF][START_REF] Swarup | The auxin influx carrier LAX3 promotes lateral root emergence[END_REF][START_REF] Jones | Auxin transport through non-hair cells sustains roothair development[END_REF].

I.2.4 Auxin signaling pathways

The molecular mechanism by which auxin drives and regulates most aspects of plant [START_REF] Strader | Auxin perception and downstream events[END_REF]. In the SCF TIR1/AFB -Aux/IAA system, ARF (Auxin Response Factors) transcription factors are inactivated by heterodimerization with the Aux/IAA repressor proteins. However, active IAA acts as a molecular glue, allowing the interaction of Aux/IAA proteins with the SCF TIR1/AFB ubiquitin E3-ligase complex. This process induces the polyubiquitination of the AUX/IAA proteins by the SCF TIR1/AFB system, which results in the Aux/IAA degradation by the proteasome.

The ARF transcription factors released from Aux/IAA bind to DNA sequences, the auxin response elements (AuxREs), in the promoter of target genes. This triggers the transcription of auxin inducible genes, that initiate molecular changes to control a broad number of physiological pathways [START_REF] Jing | Peptidyl-prolyl isomerization targets rice Aux/IAAs for proteasomal degradation during auxin signalling[END_REF][START_REF] Yu | Untethering the TIR1 auxin receptor from the SCF complex increases its stability and inhibits auxin response[END_REF]Li et al., 2016).

In Arabidopsis plants, there are 6 TIR1/AFBs and 29 Aux/IAA proteins which show differential auxin affinity, depending on the combination of the members, as well as the class of auxin. Indeed, in vitro analyses have shown that PAA has less affinity than IAA and 4-Cl-IAA for TIR1/AFBs receptor [START_REF] Villalobos | A combinatorial TIR1/AFB-Aux/IAA co-receptor system for differential sensing of auxin[END_REF][START_REF] Shimizu-Mitao | Auxin Sensitivities of All Arabidopsis Aux/IAAs for Degradation in the Presence of Every TIR1/AFB[END_REF]. Auxin response factors join to specific DNA sequences with canonical signatures (TGTCTC or TGTCGG), core of the AuxREs, in the promoters of target genes. There are 22 ARF in Arabidopsis in which ARF5 to ARF8 and ARF19 are gene transcriptional activators while the rest of the ARF are transcriptional repressors (Li et al., 2016). However, it has been proposed that some ARF could play a dual function depending on the molecular circumstances. Recently, studies focusing on downstream events in the auxin response have revealed a pathway independent of Aux/IAA degradation to control auxin inducible gene expression. This pathway involves the activity of INDOLE-3-BUTYRIC ACID RESPONSE 5 (IBR5) and MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 12 (MPK12), however the mechanism of this control remains to be elucidated [START_REF] Powers | Up in the air: Untethered Factors of Auxin Response[END_REF].

Targets of the ARFs include Aux/IAA, SAUR, GH3, and ASL2/LOB families of genes, that are involved in a variety of physiological and molecular functions that rely on the auxin signaling pathway [START_REF] Ulmasov | Aux/IAA Proteins Repress Expression of Reporter Genes Containing Natural and Highly Active Synthetic Auxin Response Elements[END_REF][START_REF] Okushima | Functional Genomic Analysis of the AUXIN RESPONSE FACTOR Gene Family Members in Arabidopsis thaliana: Unique and Overlapping Functions of ARF7 and ARF19[END_REF][START_REF] Guilfoyle | Auxin response factors[END_REF][START_REF] Boer | Structural basis for DNA binding specificity by the auxin-dependent ARF transcription factors[END_REF]Liao et al., 2015). For example, SAUR proteins have been implicated in the inhibition of PP2C.D phosphatases, that ultimately lead to the modulation of the H+-ATPase enzyme that is important for cell expansion [START_REF] Spartz | SAUR Inhibition of PP2C-D Phosphatases Activates Plasma Membrane H+-ATPases to Promote Cell Expansion in Arabidopsis[END_REF][START_REF] Powers | Up in the air: Untethered Factors of Auxin Response[END_REF].

Besides the auxin signaling mechanism dependent on TIR and Aux/IAA protein complex, it has been shown that auxin also join to the F-box protein SKP2 [START_REF] Jurado | The Arabidopsis Cell Cycle F-Box Protein SKP2A Binds to Auxin[END_REF]. Similarly to TIR1 signaling process, auxin induces the proteasomal degradation of DPB-E2FC complex allowing the expression of genes involved in the cell cycle progression (Figure I.10B). Mutation of the SKP2 gene led to an increased content of E2FC and DPB proteins and impair cell division, while overexpression of SKP2 gene increased the number of lateral root primordia [START_REF] Pozo | Arabidopsis E2Fc Functions in Cell Division and Is Degraded by the Ubiquitin-SCFAtSKP2 Pathway in Response to Light[END_REF][START_REF] Jurado | The Arabidopsis Cell Cycle F-Box Protein SKP2A Binds to Auxin[END_REF][START_REF] Powers | Up in the air: Untethered Factors of Auxin Response[END_REF]. Another target of auxin is the controversial ABP1 (Auxin Binding Protein 1), identified many years ago as a protein able to bind IAA [START_REF] Batt | Auxin Binding to Corn Coleoptile Membranes: Kinetics and Specificity[END_REF][START_REF] Ray | Specificity of Auxin-binding Sites on Maize Coleoptile Membranes as Possible Receptor Sites for Auxin Action[END_REF][START_REF] Napier | Towards an understanding of ABP1[END_REF]. It has been suggested that auxin induces the interaction of ABP1 with the TRANSMEMBRANE KINASE RECEPTOR (TMK1). This would lead to the modulation of auxin transport by relocation of PIN1 carrier, as well as the remodeling of cytoskeleton by the control of microtubule and F-actin polymerization, in a process depending on RHO-LIKE GTPASE and CRIB motif-containing proteins (RICs) (Figure I.10C) [START_REF] Feng | Revisiting Apoplastic Auxin Signaling Mediated by AUXIN BINDING PROTEIN 1[END_REF]. Conditional inactivation of ABP1 by cellular immunization shown that ABP1 has roles in cell cycle and shoot development [START_REF] Braun | Conditional Repression of AUXIN BINDING PROTEIN1 Reveals That It Coordinates Cell Division and Cell Expansion during Postembryonic Shoot Development in Arabidopsis and Tobacco[END_REF]. However, the ABP1 mechanism of auxin signaling has been a subject to debate, due to scientific reports that claim that phenotypes of the mutants used in initial studies were due to co-segregating mutations. This conclusion is supported by the phenotypic characterization of new alleles of the ABP1 gene produced by CRISPR technology and T-DNA insertions, which did not display the phenotypes presented in past studies [START_REF] Gao | Auxin binding protein 1 (ABP1) is not required for either auxin signaling or Arabidopsis development[END_REF][START_REF] Michalko | Strong morphological defects in conditional Arabidopsis abp1 knock-down mutants generated in absence of functional ABP1 protein[END_REF]. Further studies have to be done to determine whether or not, ABP1 is involved in the auxin signaling mechanism and moreover elucidate new aspects of the auxin pathway that remain elusive in the control of the root development.

I.2.5 Roles of auxin in root development and plasticity

The synthesis of auxin by different pathways and the refined auxin distribution mediated by specific auxin carriers facilitates the control of the spatiotemporal auxin activity, which is important for the regulation of root architecture. Indeed, auxin distribution mediated by polar and non-polar auxin transport has been shown to be important for root development, which is demonstrated by the phenotype observed in mutants of the PIN and AUX1/LAX family of carriers, such as pin1, pin2, pin3 and aux1 that show a decrease in the primary root elongation, and lateral root number together with a decreased in the length of the root hairs and impairment in the gravitropic growth [START_REF] Blilou | The PIN auxin efflux facilitator network controls growth and patterning in Arabidopsis roots[END_REF][START_REF] Grieneisen | Auxin transport is sufficient to generate a maximum and gradient guiding root growth[END_REF].

Besides the auxin transport, the localized synthesis of auxin has been shown to be important in plant development. Indeed, grafting experiments demonstrated that local synthesis of IAA from IPA pathway to generate an auxin maximum is critical for root meristem maintenance, as well as flower development [START_REF] Brumos | Local Auxin Biosynthesis Is a Key Regulator of Plant Development[END_REF][START_REF] Morffy | Locally Sourced: Auxin Biosynthesis and Transport in the Root Meristem[END_REF]. Intriguingly, the level of auxin in the root tissue have been correlated with the expression of the transcription factors known as PLETHORA (PLT), which together with SCARECROW (SCR) and the plant-specific transcription factor TEOSINTE-BRANCHED CYCLOIDEA PCNA (TCP) are critical for the meristem maintenance and cell differentiation [START_REF] Overvoorde | Auxin Control of Root Development[END_REF][START_REF] Shimotohno | Root stem cell niche organizer specification by molecular convergence of PLETHORA and SCARECROW transcription factor modules[END_REF]. In addition, overexpression of CYP79B2 gene involved in the formation of IAA from indole-3-acetaldoxime precursor result in an increase in the length of the hypocotyls, as well as an increment in post-embryonic adventitious roots in the presence of the amino acid tryptophan, that emphasizes the role of de novo auxin synthesis in cell expansion and differentiation. It can also be easily seen in the lateral root formation, root hairs, and primary root development in response to exogenous application of endogenous auxin, and the root architecture phenotype in mutants impaired in the auxin pathway [START_REF] Zhao | Trp-dependent auxin biosynthesis in Arabidopsis: Involvement of cytochrome P450s CYP79B2 and CYP79B3[END_REF][START_REF] Blilou | The PIN auxin efflux facilitator network controls growth and patterning in Arabidopsis roots[END_REF][START_REF] Strader | Conversion of Endogenous Indole-3-Butyric Acid to Indole-3-Acetic Acid Drives Cell Expansion in Arabidopsis Seedlings[END_REF]Strader et al., , 2011;;[START_REF] Mano | The pathway of auxin biosynthesis in plants[END_REF].

During lateral root development, the specific localization of auxin maxima in founder cells is required for the successful initiation of lateral root primordia formation, that relies on the activation of SOLITARY-ROOT/INDOLE-3-ACETIC ACID (IAA)14-AUXIN RESPONSE FACTOR (ARF)7-ARF19 and the sequential activity of the module BODENLOS/IAA12-MONOPTEROS/ARF5, which allow the first asymmetrical division during LRP development [START_REF] Okushima | Functional Genomic Analysis of the AUXIN RESPONSE FACTOR Gene Family Members in Arabidopsis thaliana: Unique and Overlapping Functions of ARF7 and ARF19[END_REF][START_REF] Benková | Lateral root organogenesis -from cell to organ[END_REF][START_REF] Smet | Bimodular auxin response controls organogenesis in Arabidopsis[END_REF]. Afterward, an auxin gradient with a maximum in the tip is rapidly set up in the LRP in a process that depends on the auxin carrier PIN1, which is required for the activity of the auxin response factor GNOM (guanine-nucleotide exchange factor) (Kleine-Vehn et al., 2008).

Besides lateral root formation auxins are also determinant for root hair development since it participates in the differentiation of epidermal cells, polarity and specification site in the epidermal cell [START_REF] Salazar-Henao | The regulation and plasticity of root hair patterning and morphogenesis[END_REF]. Intriguingly, auxin flow required for root hair development seems to be supplied by atrichoblast cells to root hair cells in a process mediated by AUX1 auxin carrier [START_REF] Jones | Auxin transport through non-hair cells sustains roothair development[END_REF]. Moreover, the aux1 mutant is defective in the root hair response during phosphorous deprivation, which is complement by the expression of AUX1 in the root cap and epidermal cells, demonstrating that localized auxin transport is critical to supply appropriate auxin flux for the normal response during phosphorous deprivation (Parry, 2018;[START_REF] Bhosale | A mechanistic framework for auxin dependent Arabidopsis root hair elongation to low external phosphate[END_REF]. In root hair cells, auxin triggers the expression of several genes mainly via the action of ARF7 and ARF19 [START_REF] Bargmann | A map of cell type-specific auxin responses[END_REF]. Nevertheless, double mutant arf7 arf19 was not perturbed in root hair formation, but was more affected in lateral root development, which suggests a possible redundancy among other ARFs for the root hair development [START_REF] Okushima | Functional Genomic Analysis of the AUXIN RESPONSE FACTOR Gene Family Members in Arabidopsis thaliana: Unique and Overlapping Functions of ARF7 and ARF19[END_REF]. Recently, it has been shown that RSL4, a critical transcription factor involved in the outgrowth of trichoblast, is regulated by auxin activity and it has been proposed that the RSL4 control by auxin is mediated by the ARF5, ARF7, and ARF8 transcription factors [START_REF] Mangano | Molecular link between auxin and ROS-mediated polar growth[END_REF].

Overall, in recent years genetic and molecular studies have clearly shown the pivotal roles for auxin during root development. However, there are still a plethora of molecular events and functions in which auxin is involved and remain to be elucidated. In this regard, the development of auxin research tools is an active subject, and because I used some of these tools in my work, I will briefly describe them in the next part.

I.2.6 Tools for study auxin in Arabidopsis

Advances in understanding the functions that rely on auxin have been increased by the development of fluorescent, and histochemical reporters that facilitate auxin research.

In this regard, the pioneering work by the group of professor Guilfoyle in the development of the well-known DR5 reporter established a new area in the auxin research field. DR5 auxin signaling marker consists of a synthetic promoter, with 7 to 9 repetitions of the canonical TGTCTC motif that can be fused with GUS, GFP, and Luciferase reporter genes [START_REF] Ulmasov | Aux/IAA Proteins Repress Expression of Reporter Genes Containing Natural and Highly Active Synthetic Auxin Response Elements[END_REF][START_REF] Friml | Auxin transport -shaping the plant[END_REF]Moreno-Risueno et al., 2010). However, the discovery of the TGTCGG as a new conserved binding site for some ARFs, in the promoter of auxin-responsive genes, allowed the development of a novel auxin signaling reporter known as DR5v2 (Figure I.11). This tool combines on the same transgene the two binding sites, each fused with a specific fluorescent protein. This new reporter demonstrated to be an excellent tool for the analysis of cellular processes driven by auxin, due to of its capacity to reveal more auxin signaling events than the original DR5, such as in embryogenesis, cotyledons, and vasculature tissues, as well as in the root system (Liao et al., 2015). Another auxin reporter frequently used to study auxin functions and responses is the DII-VENUS system that is based in the auxin signaling mechanism. DII-Venus consists in the translational fusion between the auxin-binding domain of the Aux/IAA proteins (DII domain), and the VENUS fluorescent protein, expressed under the control of any constitutive promoter (CaMV35S or UBQ10). This new auxin marker has the advantage over DR5 and DR5v2 to allow a more direct approximation of auxin distribution, since it relies on auxin perception rather than auxin signaling output [START_REF] Brunoud | A novel sensor to map auxin response and distribution at high spatio-temporal resolution[END_REF]. (Liao et al., 2015). Another recent tool designed for the study of auxin distribution and transport are the fluorescent auxin analogs that conjugate natural and synthetic auxins with 7-nitro-2,1,3-benzoxadiazole (NBD), which allows mimicking the normal distribution of exogenous application of auxin and observe it in realtime [START_REF] Hayashi | Auxin transport sites are visualized in planta using fluorescent auxin analogs[END_REF].

(Figure I.11)
The development of fluorescent and histochemical probes are powerful tools for unraveling several molecular and cellular aspects of auxin metabolism that until now have been elusive for plant biologists, including aspects in the auxin synthesis and functions. In this regard and because is one of the main subjects of this work, the next chapter focuses on another endogenous auxin known as IBA, which is another way of IAA synthesis .

While little is known about its metabolism and its regulation, it has been shown to be important for several physiological aspects of the root system.

I.3 INDOLE-3-BUTYRIC ACID I.3.1 Generalities

The auxin indole-3-butyric acid has been recognized as an endogenous auxin by several research groups. However, for many years its nature was the subject of intense debate, due to the difficulties that represent its detection [START_REF] Normanly | Approaching Cellular and Molecular Resolution of Auxin Biosynthesis and Metabolism[END_REF][START_REF] Novák | Tissue-specific profiling of the Arabidopsis thaliana auxin metabolome[END_REF]Frick and Strader, 2018). The evidence that support the classification of IBA as natural plant hormone come from studies that were able to detect IBA in different species, such as Daucus carota, Medicago truncatula, Nicotiana tabacum, Arabidopsis thaliana, and Zea mays. Moreover, the identification of several enzymes that specifically target IBA gave stronger evidence for the existence of IBA as an endogenous auxin [START_REF] Sutter | Measurement of Indolebutyric Acid in Plant Tissues by Isotope Dilution Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry Analysis[END_REF][START_REF] Barkawi | A high-throughput method for the quantitative analysis of indole-3-acetic acid and other auxins from plant tissue[END_REF][START_REF] Campanella | The Auxin Conjugate Hydrolase Family of Medicago truncatula and Their Expression During the Interaction with Two Symbionts[END_REF][START_REF] Strader | Conversion of Endogenous Indole-3-Butyric Acid to Indole-3-Acetic Acid Drives Cell Expansion in Arabidopsis Seedlings[END_REF][START_REF] Liu | Protocol: High-throughput and quantitative assays of auxin and auxin precursors from minute tissue samples[END_REF]Frick and Strader, 2018). Indole-3-butyric acid was first described in 1935 by

Zimmerman and Wilcoxon as a synthetic strong rooting compound, and due to its stability and activity, it is currently used in commercial plant media such as in Rootone® [START_REF] Epstein | Indole-3-butyric acid in plants: occurrence, synthesis, metabolism and transport[END_REF][START_REF] Zimmerman | SEVERAL CHEMICAL GROWTH SUBSTANC ES WHI CH CAUSE INITIATION OF ROOTS AND OTHER RESPONSES IN PLANTS[END_REF]Frick and Strader, 2018).

IBA is structurally highly similar to IAA, differing only by the presence of two extra carbon atoms in the side chain of the IBA structure. Nevertheless and perhaps one of the most important differences between IAA and IBA is their capacity to join to the TIR1 complex to trigger auxin signaling responses. Indeed, by computational and surface plasmon resonance analyses, it was shown that while IAA and IPA are able to bind to TIR1, IBA is not capable to adopt the correct molecular orientation to join successfully to the receptor complex [START_REF] Uzunova | Tomographic docking suggests the mechanism of auxin receptor TIR1 selectivity[END_REF]. While the aspects regarding its synthesis remain elusive, the conversion of IBA to IAA have been detected in several plants, includin Zea mays [START_REF] Ludwig-Muller | Occurrence and in Vivo Biosynthesis of Indole-3-Butyric Acid in Corn (Zea mays L.)[END_REF][START_REF] Epstein | Indole-3-butyric acid in plants: occurrence, synthesis, metabolism and transport[END_REF][START_REF] Ludwig-Müller | Indole-3-butyric acid synthesis in ecotypes and mutants of Arabidopsis thaliana under different growth conditions[END_REF]. Genetic and biochemical analyses elucidated that in fact, IBA acts as a precursor for the synthesis of IAA independent of usual de novo synthesis pathways.

Feeding assays with labeled IBA and genetic experiments validated this hypothesis [START_REF] Zolman | Genetic Analysis of Indole-3-butyric Acid Responses in Arabidopsis thaliana Reveals Four Mutant Classes[END_REF][START_REF] Zolman | IBR3, a novel peroxisomal acyl-CoA dehydrogenase-like protein required for indole-3-butyric acid response[END_REF][START_REF] Zolman | Identification and characterization of Arabidopsis indole-3-butyric acid response mutants defective in novel peroxisomal enzymes[END_REF][START_REF] Strader | Conversion of Endogenous Indole-3-Butyric Acid to Indole-3-Acetic Acid Drives Cell Expansion in Arabidopsis Seedlings[END_REF]Strader and Bartel, 2011). After years of debate, it is now generally accepted that IBA functions fully depend on its conversion to IAA, although we cannot exclude that IBA acts as its own, in very specific contexts or in some species (Frick and Strader, 2018).

Important advances allowed to decipher the mechanism and major players in the IBA conversion to IAA as well as the physiological meaning of the IBA-derived-IAA. In this regard, the discovery that IBA-to-IAA conversion takes place in the peroxisome represents a great step towards the understanding of the IBA roles in plant development [START_REF] Zolman | Genetic Analysis of Indole-3-butyric Acid Responses in Arabidopsis thaliana Reveals Four Mutant Classes[END_REF](Zolman et al., , 2001;;Frick and Strader, 2018). Because the peroxisome is the subcellular site of the synthesis of IAA from IBA, the next part will explain briefly the functions in which the peroxisome is involved, followed by the description of the peroxisomal conversion of IBAto-IAA, as well as the functions of IBA.

I.3.2 Peroxisomal conversion of IBA to IAA I.3.2.1 Peroxisome functions in plant development

Peroxisomes are small and mobile cellular compartments enclosed by a single membrane (around 0.2-1 µm in diameter), and, as its name suggests, one of its functions is to host metabolic oxidative reactions, and to detoxify the hydrogen peroxide resulting byproduct [START_REF] Purdue | PEROXISOME BIOGENESIS[END_REF][START_REF] Pracharoenwattana | When is a peroxisome not a peroxisome?[END_REF]. [START_REF] Purdue | PEROXISOME BIOGENESIS[END_REF][START_REF] Pracharoenwattana | When is a peroxisome not a peroxisome?[END_REF]. Peroxisomal maintenance and functions highly depend on a complex system composed by the peroxin (PEX) family of proteins, that is composed of 22 members in Arabidopsis (Hayashi and Nishimura, 2006).

The knowledge of the specific functions and control of the peroxins is still under investigation. However, genetic evidence demonstrated that PEX5 and PEX7 play pivotal roles in peroxisome functions (Hu et al., 2012;Kao et al., 2018). PEX5 and PEX7 are peroxins that form part of the complex system involved in the transport of proteins with target signal sequences known as PTS1 and PTS2, that are characterized by holding the aminoacid sequence "SKL" and "R[L/I]X5HL" respectively. PEX5 is necessary to import peroxisomal proteins with both PTS1 and PTS2 signals, while PEX7 is only involved in the uptake of peroxisomal proteins with PTS2. The activity of peroxins are critical for the metabolic reactions that take place in the peroxisomes, such as fatty acid beta-oxidation, photorespiration, and synthesis of hormones and compounds (Hayashi and Nishimura, 2006;Kao et al., 2018).

Fatty Acid beta-oxidation is one of the well-known metabolic pathways that take place in almost any type of peroxisome for energy production (Wanders and Waterham, 2006). Overall, the sequential reactions include first an activation of the fatty acid in the cytosol by acyl-CoA synthetase, then in the peroxisome the acyl-CoA ester is dehydrogenated to enoyl-CoA, which is hydrated to form 3-OH-acyl-CoA. Thereafter, a new dehydrogenase reaction takes place to produce 3-keto-acyl-CoA. This is the substrate for the final thiolase enzyme to form acetyl-CoA and acyl-CoA, and eventually propionyl-CoA depending on the fatty acid (Poirier et al., 2006;Wanders and Waterham, 2006).

Peroxisomes are also the site of different functions that rely on the type of tissue and organism, for example in methylotrophs yeast strains they are important for methanol metabolism and assimilation (van der Klei et al., 2006), synthesis of cholesterol, and ether phospholipids such as plasmalogens in humans [START_REF] Purdue | PEROXISOME BIOGENESIS[END_REF]Wanders and Waterham, 2006), glycolysis in trypanosomes, in which they are named glycosomes [START_REF] Pracharoenwattana | When is a peroxisome not a peroxisome?[END_REF]. In plants, there are involved in the glyoxylate cycle, photorespiration in photosynthetic tissue, and synthesis of plant hormones such as jasmonates and IAA [START_REF] Pracharoenwattana | When is a peroxisome not a peroxisome?[END_REF]Hu et al., 2012).

Peroxisomes that perform glyoxylate reactions are named glyoxysomes and perform reactions similar to the tricarboxylic acid (TCA) cycle. Glyoxylate cycle is performed by the enzymes citrate synthase (CSY), aconitase (ACO), isocitrate lyase (ICL), malate synthase (MLS) and malate dehydrogenase (MDH) (Kunze et al., 2006). The function of the glyoxylate cycle is to generate sugars from lipids to supply seedlings with energy during germination, and early steps of plant development when photosynthesis is limited.

In agreement with these critical functions of glyoxysomes, mutant plants in the genes that encode glyoxylate enzymes, display severe developmental defects and problems in seed germination (Kunze et al., 2006;[START_REF] Pracharoenwattana | When is a peroxisome not a peroxisome?[END_REF].

Besides glyoxylate cycle, peroxisomes are also the place for one part of a complex process so-called photorespiration that includes reactions in the cytosol, mitochondria, and chloroplasts (Hu et al., 2012). Overall, photorespiration occurred when oxygen is fixed instead of CO 2 by ribulose 1,5-bisphosphate (RuBP) carboxylase (Rubisco), leading to the formation of glycolate, that is converted to glycine in the peroxisome (Bauwe et al., 2010;Hu et al., 2012). The complex photorespiration pathway is highly important for maintaining the Calvin cycle functional when oxygen is present. However, it is hypothesized that photorespiration is an ancient mechanism that is still present in modern angiosperms, especially in C3 plants, and is subject for research to improve commercial crops (Bauwe et al., 2010;Timm et al., 2016).

Peroxisomes are also the place for the synthesis of a few plant hormones, such as Jasmonates and IAA. Jasmonates are key regulators in some plant developmental process and biotic stress responses (Dar et al., 2015;Wasternack and Song, 2017). They are synthesized by a process involving three subcellular compartments: the mitochondria, peroxisome, and cytosol. In the chloroplast polyunsaturated fatty acids are converted to the Jasmonate precursor 12-oxo-phytodienoic acid (OPDA). Thereafter, OPDA is imported into the peroxisome by the multifunctional enzyme transporter PXA1, in which it is converted to jasmonic acid by three series of β-oxidation reactions that involve OPR3, OPCL1, ACX1, ACX5, AIM1, and PED1 enzymes. Jasmonate is then activated in the cytosol by JAR1 enzyme to produce JA-Ile, that is the active hormone, playing critical roles in plant development. Indeed, seeds from peroxisomal mutants involved in jasmonates synthesis are not viable, suggesting that OPDA pathway is highly important for seed development (Hu et al., 2012). [START_REF] Zolman | Genetic Analysis of Indole-3-butyric Acid Responses in Arabidopsis thaliana Reveals Four Mutant Classes[END_REF]. Later the mapping and identification of the causal mutations led to a proposed model for the conversion of IBA to IAA in the peroxisome. It has been suggested

that IBA is transported into the peroxisome by the PEROXISOMAL TRANSPORTER1 (PXA1/CTS/ABCD1), which import a broad number of metabolic compounds (Zolman et al., 2001). Indeed, loss-of-function of the PXA1 transporter-encoding gene shows resistance to the exogenous application of IBA, and is also impaired in germination, which depends on the peroxisomal fatty acids β-oxidation (Zolman et al., 2001;Frick and Strader, 2018). Based on a genetic analysis it has been proposed that IBA is converted to IAA by the activity of the peroxisomal enzymes acyl-CoA dehydrogenase/oxidase-like IBR3 [START_REF] Zolman | IBR3, a novel peroxisomal acyl-CoA dehydrogenase-like protein required for indole-3-butyric acid response[END_REF], enoyl-CoA hydratase IBR10 [START_REF] Zolman | Identification and characterization of Arabidopsis indole-3-butyric acid response mutants defective in novel peroxisomal enzymes[END_REF], enoyl-CoA hydratase ENOYL-COA HYDRATASE2 (ECH2) (Strader et al., 2011), the dehydrogenase/reductase INDOLE-3-BUTYRIC ACID RESPONSE1 (IBR1) [START_REF] Zolman | Identification and characterization of Arabidopsis indole-3-butyric acid response mutants defective in novel peroxisomal enzymes[END_REF], and the PED1 3-ketoacyl-CoA thiolase [START_REF] Zolman | Genetic Analysis of Indole-3-butyric Acid Responses in Arabidopsis thaliana Reveals Four Mutant Classes[END_REF]. While genetic evidence indicate that IBR3, IBR10 and IBR1 seem to be specific to the IBA conversion, PED1 has been demonstrated to act in several pathways, such as fatty acid β-oxidation, synthesis of jasmonate, and the conversion of IBA to IAA (Hayashi, 1998;[START_REF] Zolman | Genetic Analysis of Indole-3-butyric Acid Responses in Arabidopsis thaliana Reveals Four Mutant Classes[END_REF]. The identification of the intermediates of the enzymatic reactions converting IBA to IAA remains to be elucidated. The IBA-to-IAA conversion takes place in several root tissues, such as in the lateral root primordia and in the root cap (Figure I.12B, I.12C), in which localized IBA-derived-IAA is critical for the LR pre-branch sites and the development of the lateral root primordia (Strader et al., 2011;De Rybel et al., 2012;[START_REF] Audenaert | Root Cap-Derived Auxin Pre-patterns the Longitudinal Axis of the Arabidopsis Root[END_REF].

The regulation of the IBA pathway is poorly understood, however, it has been proposed that modulation of the IBA conversion to IAA includes the transport of the IBA to other parts of the plant, and the enzymatic modification of Indole-3-butyric acid.

I.3.3 Indole butyric acid conjugation and transport

Little is known about the molecular pathways that control the rate of the peroxisomal conversion of IBA to IAA. However, it has been proposed that IBA-derived IAA can be controlled by the transport of the IBA to other tissues, and by chemical modifications in its structure.

In Arabidopsis, the PLEIOTROPIC DRUG RESISTANCE8 (ABCG36/PDR8) and the ABCG37 (PDR9), two members of the family of membrane ATP Binding Cassette (ABC) transporters, have been proposed to be IBA carriers that efflux the inactive auxin to other tissues (Figure I.12A). Mutants abcg36 and abcg37 hyper-accumulate [3H] IBA, but not [3H] IAA, and are hypersensitive to exogenous IBA but not IAA [START_REF] Strader | The Arabidopsis PLEIOTROPIC DRUG RESISTANCE8/ABCG36 ATP Binding Cassette Transporter Modulates Sensitivity to the Auxin Precursor Indole-3-Butyric Acid[END_REF][START_REF] Ruzicka | Arabidopsis PIS1 encodes the ABCG37 transporter of auxinic compounds including the auxin precursor indole-3-butyric acid[END_REF]. In Arabidopsis, both ABCG36 and ABCG37 are localized in the root cap and in the epidermis of the root tip, which could suggest that those IBA carriers are important to secrete the IBA to the rhizosphere. The family of ABC transporters is present in all classes of living organisms, and in the Arabidopsis thaliana genome there are 130 genes that are predicted to encode ABC proteins and 43 encode type G ABC transporters (ABCG) [START_REF] Hwang | Plant ABC Transporters Enable Many Unique Aspects of a Terrestrial Plant's Lifestyle[END_REF]. For this reason, it could be possible that there are additional members of this family able to transport IBA in a localized or systemic manner.

Besides the control of IBA homeostasis by some members of the ABCG subclass of carriers, IBA can be regulated by post-translational modification mediated by the family of UDP-glycosyltransferases (UGT) and amino acid conjugate synthetases (Figure I.12A) (Frick and Strader, 2018). Among the 120 members of the UGT enzymes in Arabidopsis, UGT74E2 and UGT75D1 are glycosyltransferases that have been proposed to structurally modify IBA. Ectopically expressing of UGT75D1 and UGT74E2 increased the level of IBA-glc and affects shoot development and abiotic stress responses (Li et al., 2001;[START_REF] Tognetti | Perturbation of Indole-3-Butyric Acid Homeostasis by the UDP-Glucosyltransferase UGT74E2 Modulates Arabidopsis Architecture and Water Stress Tolerance[END_REF][START_REF] Li | A Review of Auxin Response Factors (ARFs) in Plants[END_REF]. However, as in the case of the IBA transport, the big family of UGT in plants suggests that it is possible that other UGT members can control of IBA homeostasis via conjugation. Little is known about the conjugation of IBA with amino acids, however, it has been shown that the enzymes belong to the amino acid synthetase family GH3, such as GH3.4, GH3.5, GH3.6, GH3.17, and GH3.15 were able to catalyze the amino acid conjugation to IBA as well as other auxins. Nevertheless, further research has to be done in order to identify conjugation enzymes that react with IBA in a specific manner as well as their roles in the IBA metabolism [START_REF] Staswick | Characterization of an Arabidopsis Enzyme Family That Conjugates Amino Acids to Indole-3-Acetic Acid[END_REF]Frick and Strader, 2018).

Due to the absence of tools to study IBA, such as the lack of reporter lines of its synthesis, transport, and localized conversion in planta, there are many aspects of its homeostasis that remain to be elucidated. However, several studies have shown that IBA plays pivotal functions in plant development. In the next section, I present what we know about the roles that IBA perform during plant development and especially in the root system.

I.3.4 Indole-3-butyric acid functions

The discovery of several peroxisomal enzymes that are involved in the conversion of IBA to IAA, represents a big step towards the understanding of the specific roles that indole-3-butyric acid plays during plant development and responses to stress conditions. Indeed, triple mutant ibr1ibr3ibr10 shows high impairment in the elongation of the root hairs length, and a significant decrease in the elongation of the hypocotyl, a phenotype that is also shown in the loss-of-function of the gene ECH2 (Strader et al., 2011). Moreover, the quadruple mutant ech2ibr1ibr3ibr10 shows defects in lateral root development, and reduction of the meristematic zone, which perturbs the growth of the primary root and decreases cotyledons size when are compared to wild-type plants, which is mainly due to the decrease in cell number and size (Strader et al., 2011;[START_REF] Katano | Suppressor Screen and Phenotype Analyses Revealed an Emerging Role of the Monofunctional Peroxisomal Enoyl-CoA Hydratase 2 in Compensated Cell pflanzlicher Organismen. Isolierung aus Hefe[END_REF]. The phenotypes of decreasing IBA-derived-IAA confirmed the important roles of this biosynthetic pathway in plant development, as well as its strong contribution to the IAA pool, since ech2ibr1ibr3ibr10 displays decreased level of endogenous IAA and decreased auxin signaling (Strader et al., 2011;Frick and Strader, 2018).

Additional strong evidence of the role of IBA-derived-IAA in the control of root development come from studies made by the groups of Tom Beeckman and Lucia Strader (Strader et al., 2011;De Rybel et al., 2012;[START_REF] Audenaert | Root Cap-Derived Auxin Pre-patterns the Longitudinal Axis of the Arabidopsis Root[END_REF]. By an elegant set of genetic experiments with Arabidopsis, it was demonstrated that the conversion of IBA to IAA that takes place in the root cap is essential for the oscillatory determination of the pre-branch sites required for the formation of the lateral roots. Moreover, mutants with low conversion of IBA to IAA show a significant decrease in the auxin signaling in lateral root primordia visualized with the auxin marker DR5-GUS, which is not rescued by the exogenous application of indole-3-acetic acid, suggesting that IBA-derived-IAA is determinant to enhance the auxin effect necessary during the development of the lateral root primordia (Strader et al., 2011).

In agreement with the involvement of the IBA pathway in plant development, a mutation in the two characterized IBA transporters genes ABCG36 and ABCG37, showed increase size in the root hairs length, and an increase in cotyledons size [START_REF] Strader | The Arabidopsis PLEIOTROPIC DRUG RESISTANCE8/ABCG36 ATP Binding Cassette Transporter Modulates Sensitivity to the Auxin Precursor Indole-3-Butyric Acid[END_REF][START_REF] Ruzicka | Arabidopsis PIS1 encodes the ABCG37 transporter of auxinic compounds including the auxin precursor indole-3-butyric acid[END_REF]. This is in agreement with the phenotype observed in lines overexpressing UGT75D1 that led to a decrease in size of cotyledon pavement cells [START_REF] Li | A Review of Auxin Response Factors (ARFs) in Plants[END_REF]. The IBA glucosyltransferases also proved to be critical in shoot development, since overexpression of UGT74E2 in Arabidopsis produced the rosette more compact and an impairment in petioles with dark-green leaves. This suggests that the contribution of the IAA pool from the peroxisomal conversion of IBA is determinant for the normal growth of several organs of the plant [START_REF] Tognetti | Perturbation of Indole-3-Butyric Acid Homeostasis by the UDP-Glucosyltransferase UGT74E2 Modulates Arabidopsis Architecture and Water Stress Tolerance[END_REF]. [START_REF] Tognetti | Perturbation of Indole-3-Butyric Acid Homeostasis by the UDP-Glucosyltransferase UGT74E2 Modulates Arabidopsis Architecture and Water Stress Tolerance[END_REF]. Besides the developmental roles of IBA-derived-IAA, in silico analysis revealed that several of the genes encoding peroxisomal enzymes are up-regulated during osmotic and salt stress, suggesting putative roles in the responses to abiotic stress conditions (Frick and Strader, 2018).

To conclude, it is quite clear that IBA plays essential functions during plant development, by contributing to local IAA homeostasis. However, the importance of the IBA-dependent source of auxin, relatively to IAA de novo synthesis, is not well understood. This is summarized by the question in Simon and Petrâśek (Plant Science 2011) "Why plants need more than one type of auxin?", which is still unsolved.

I.4 REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES

Reactive oxygen species (ROS) such as superoxide radicals (O 2 .-), singlet oxygen

( 1 O 2 ), hydrogen peroxide (H 2 O 2 ), and hydroxyl radicals (OH . ) are oxygen-derived compounds, that appeared on earth more than 2.5 billions of years ago, and they have been produced in both anaerobic and aerobic organisms [START_REF] Czarnocka | Friend or foe? Reactive oxygen species production, scavenging and signaling in plant response to environmental stresses[END_REF]. ROS are produced as by-products of metabolic pathways that are capable of oxidizing proteins and cellular complex structures, resulting in the induction of cell death, a reason why where considered mainly as toxic compounds. However, ROS act also as second messengers involved in the control of many biological processes, including response to abiotic and biotic stress and control of developmental stages [START_REF] Gill | Reactive oxygen species and antioxidant machinery in abiotic stress tolerance in crop plants[END_REF][START_REF] Zandalinas | ROS-induced ROS release in plant and animal cells[END_REF].

I.4.1 ROS generation

In plants, reactive oxygen species are formed in different compartments and cellular structures, such as the mitochondria, chloroplast, peroxisomes, and plasma membrane (Figure I.13) (Noctor et al., 2018). Due to the production of energy that takes place in the mitochondria, it has been proposed to be the major cellular site of H 2 O 2 production [START_REF] Gill | Reactive oxygen species and antioxidant machinery in abiotic stress tolerance in crop plants[END_REF]. Hydrogen peroxide is formed in normal conditions in the mitochondria, when the electron transport chain of the complex I and III produce O [START_REF] Mittler | ROS Are Good[END_REF].

Another important organelle in the production of ROS is the chloroplast, which is the site of the major production of O Accumulation of 1 O 2 have been shown to be important in signaling processes such as in stress acclimation and cell death (Wagner et al., 2004;[START_REF] Das | Reactive oxygen species (ROS) and response of antioxidants as ROS-scavengers during environmental stress in plants[END_REF][START_REF] Laloi | Key players of singlet oxygen-induced cell death in plants[END_REF][START_REF] Czarnocka | Friend or foe? Reactive oxygen species production, scavenging and signaling in plant response to environmental stresses[END_REF].

As mitochondria and chloroplast, peroxisomes are also producing ROS as a byproduct of their normal metabolism. Superoxide radicals are formed within the peroxisome, in the matrix and in their membrane. O 2 .-produced by the peroxisome can serve as a substrate to produce H 2 O 2 . Moreover, several metabolic pathways that take place in the peroxisome produce H 2 O 2 as a by-product of their reactions, such as β-oxidation of fatty acids, photorespiratory enzymes from the glyoxylate cycle, and the synthesis of plant hormones [START_REF] Gill | Reactive oxygen species and antioxidant machinery in abiotic stress tolerance in crop plants[END_REF][START_REF] Qu | Peroxisomal CuAOζ and its product H2O2 regulate the distribution of auxin and IBA-dependent lateral root development in Arabidopsis[END_REF]. For example in photorespiration, H 2 O 2 is produced during the conversion of glycolate to glyoxylate in a reaction involving molecular oxygen, while during the oxidation of fatty acids H 2 O 2 is produced as byproduct of reactions involving acyl-CoA oxidases, flavin oxidases, and superoxide dismutases enzymes [START_REF] Das | Reactive oxygen species (ROS) and response of antioxidants as ROS-scavengers during environmental stress in plants[END_REF][START_REF] Czarnocka | Friend or foe? Reactive oxygen species production, scavenging and signaling in plant response to environmental stresses[END_REF].

Besides the formation of ROS as a by-product of the metabolic process, plants generate ROS in a mechanism mediated by NADPH oxidases, which have a catalytic subunit that is homologous to mammalian Respiratory Burst Oxidases, and which are probably mainly located at the plasma membrane. In the Arabidopsis genome, there are 10 genes that encode for RESPIRATORY BURST OXIDASE HOMOLOG (RBOH) enzymes, and they shared a similar protein structure, which consists in transmembrane and oxidase domains, both situated at the C-terminal region of the protein structure.

Phosphorylation and calcium-binding EF-hands domains localized in the N-terminal region are also critical for the regulation of their activity. RBOH enzymes catalyze the formation of superoxide radicals by transferring an electron to molecular oxygen [START_REF] Suzuki | Respiratory burst oxidases: The engines of ROS signaling[END_REF]. Apoplastic class III heme peroxidases are other potentially important sources of superoxide and H 2 O 2 in plants [START_REF] Cosio | Specific functions of individual class III peroxidase genes[END_REF]. While their biochemical properties are not always elucidated, some isoforms catalyse superoxide formation from oxygen, as well as H 2 O 2 reduction (O' Brien et al., 2012).

The production of ROS is maintained at a basal level under normal growth conditions. However, its localized and systemic induction by several factors, such as in High levels of ROS have a negative impact by reacting with biological compounds that produced their oxidation and degradation. Nevertheless, ROS such as 1 O 2 and H 2 O 2 act as a signal molecule to drive the control of physiological process during plant development (Wagner et al., 2004;[START_REF] Laloi | Key players of singlet oxygen-induced cell death in plants[END_REF][START_REF] Mittler | ROS Are Good[END_REF][START_REF] Mhamdi | Reactive oxygen species in plant development[END_REF].

I.4.2 ROS as signaling molecule in root development

Among [START_REF] Dunand | Distribution of superoxide and hydrogen peroxide in Arabidopsis root and their influence on root development: Possible interaction with peroxidases[END_REF]. The control of cell division and cell differentiation by ROS have been shown to be dependent on the transcription factor UPBEAT1 (UPB1), which modulated the expression of peroxidase genes to control the ROS level in the root. Indeed, absent of UPBEAT1 in the upb1 mutant lead to the increase of the root meristem size and primary root length, moreover overexpression of UPB1 gene produce an increase of H 2 O 2 that resulted in a decrease of the meristem cells of the root compared to wild-type plants, suggesting that H 2 O 2 acts as a negative regulator of cell division. In maize, the quiescent center that has a low rate of cellular division shows a high level of ROS, which is in part due to the low level of glutathione and ascorbate that have been detected in those cells [START_REF] Sanchez-Fernandez | Cell proliferation and hair tip growth in the Arabidopsis root are under mechanistically different forms of redox control[END_REF][START_REF] Jiang | Quiescent center formation in maize roots is associated with an auxin-regulated oxidizing environment[END_REF]. In agreement with the critical roles of ROS during root growth, transcriptomic studies have shown a number of ROS related genes that are differential expressed in the root zones, and induced by exogenous application of auxin (Orman-Ligeza et al., 2016;[START_REF] Tognetti | Redox regulation at the site of primary growth: auxin, cytokinin and ROS crosstalk[END_REF][START_REF] Mhamdi | Reactive oxygen species in plant development[END_REF]. The root control mediated by ROS such as

H 2 O 2 and O 2 .
-seems to be linked to the plant hormone ABA that is critical during stress responses. Exogenous application of ABA decrease the growth of the primary root, reduce the number of cells in the meristematic zone, and increase the production in the root tip of ROS, an effect that is partially rescued by the addition of high concentration of glutathione, a key regulator in scavenging ROS (Zhao et al., 2014). Reactive oxygen species have been also involved during the elongation of the root hairs in the epidermis of the root, which is mediated by the activity of NADPH oxidases [START_REF] Foreman | Reactive oxygen species produced by NADPH oxidase regulate plant cell growth[END_REF]. It has been proposed that the ROS formation by NADPH oxidases activates Ca 2+ channels that induce the cellular elongation of the root hairs. Inhibition of the activity of NADPH oxidases by diphenyleneiodonium chloride or loss-of-function of RBOHC block the growth of the root hairs [START_REF] Foreman | Reactive oxygen species produced by NADPH oxidase regulate plant cell growth[END_REF]. Formation of the postembryonic organ is another biological process in which ROS have been involved. 2 O 2 andO 2 .-have been detected during lateral root primordia development, suggesting roles of ROS during early events in the formation of lateral roots. Indeed, by genetic and pharmacological experiments with the RBOH family of enzymes, it was demonstrated that generation of ROS by RBOH is required for the emergence of the lateral root primordia (Manzano et al., 2014;Orman-Ligeza et al., 2016).

Detection of H

Besides the developmental roles of ROS in the root architecture, ROS generation seems to be important during abiotic stress conditions, such as nutrient deprivation. Indeed, under lack of phosphate there is an accumulation of intracellular Fe 3+ produced by the increased activity of ferroxidases LPR1 and LPR2, that alter the balance of iron and phosphorous within the cell. This leads to the production of ROS and callose deposition within the meristematic zone, that in turn decrease the growth of the primary root and induce the elongation of the root hairs [START_REF] Niu | Responses of root architecture development to low phosphorus availability: A review[END_REF][START_REF] Yang | ABA-Mediated ROS in Mitochondria Regulate Root Meristem Activity by Controlling PLETHORA Expression in Arabidopsis[END_REF][START_REF] Ham | Insights into plant phosphate sensing and signaling[END_REF]. Moreover, during the growth of Arabidopsis plants in phosphorus, nitrogen, and potassium medium deficiency, there is an increase of H 2 O 2 accompanied by an increase of ROS related genes [START_REF] Shin | Reactive Oxygen Species and Root Hairs in Arabidopsis Root Response to Nitrogen, Phosphorus and Potassium Deficiency[END_REF].

Overall, negative and positive functions of reactive oxygen species in the root development are depending on the type of tissue in which is induced, the class of ROS produced, and the level of ROS that is synthesized. It is for this reason that its control by several molecular systems is highly important for the normal plant development.

I.4.3 Scavenging of reactive oxygen species

In plants as in other organisms, there are several compounds that have the capacity to act as antioxidant agents to maintain proper cellular levels of ROS. They are divided into enzymatic and non-enzymatic ROS scavenging molecules. Superoxide dismutases (SOD), catalases (CAT), ascorbate peroxidases (APX), and glutathione peroxidase (GPX) are part of the enzymatic mechanisms to detoxify reactive oxygen species, while ascorbate (ASC), and glutathione (GSH) are members of the non-enzymatic scavenging systems (Figure I.16) [START_REF] Das | Reactive oxygen species (ROS) and response of antioxidants as ROS-scavengers during environmental stress in plants[END_REF][START_REF] Czarnocka | Friend or foe? Reactive oxygen species production, scavenging and signaling in plant response to environmental stresses[END_REF].

SOD catalyzes the dismutation of superoxides in different cell compartments (cytosol, chloroplasts, mitochondria, and peroxisome). These isoforms are either of prokaryotic or eukaryotic origin and use Fe, Mn, Cu or Zn as a co-factor (Noctor et al., 2018). Its expression is up-regulated under biotic and abiotic stress conditions, suggesting important roles in the control of ROS homeostasis during oxidative stress [START_REF] Gupta | Overexpression of Superoxide Dismutase Protects Plants from Oxidative Stress[END_REF][START_REF] Czarnocka | Friend or foe? Reactive oxygen species production, scavenging and signaling in plant response to environmental stresses[END_REF].

Catalases (CAT) dismutate H 2 O 2 into H 2 O and O 2 .
In plants, there are three isoforms and they are expressed differentially in several tissues. CAT1 is principally expressed in pollen and seeds, CAT2 in both photosynthetic and non-photosynthetic tissues, such as in roots and seeds, while CAT3 is expressed in leaves and vascular tissues (Mhamdi et al., 2010). CAT are major actors in H 2 O 2 metabolism in the peroxisome. Disruption of the gene that encodes to CAT enzymes showed that the reduction of the catalase activity is more affected in the mutant cat2, rather than cat1 and cat3, which produced an increase of the H 2 O 2 and oxidized glutathione (GSSG) [START_REF] Bueso | The lithium tolerance of the Arabidopsis cat2 mutant reveals a cross-talk between oxidative stress and ethylene[END_REF]Mhamdi et al., 2010b).

Decreased in catalase activity is also observed in the roots of the cat2 mutant, in which there is also a decreased in the number of lateral roots, plant size, and it is more sensitive to stress conditions compared to wild-type plants [START_REF] Bueso | The lithium tolerance of the Arabidopsis cat2 mutant reveals a cross-talk between oxidative stress and ethylene[END_REF].

Ascorbate peroxidases (APX) isoforms are major H 2 O 2 scavenging enzymes in plants through a central role in the ascorbate/glutathione cycle known also as the Foyer-Halliwell-Asada pathway (Figure I.16) [START_REF] Foyer | The Presence of Glutathione and Glutathione Reductase in Chloroplasts: A Proposed Role in Ascorbic Acid Metabolism[END_REF][START_REF] Asada | THE WATER-WATER CYCLE IN CHLOROPLASTS: Scavenging of Active Oxygens and Dissipation of Excess Photons[END_REF]. As reducer of APX, ascorbate belonging to the class of non-enzymatic compounds play a major role in this cycle (Noctor et al., 2018;[START_REF] Czarnocka | Friend or foe? Reactive oxygen species production, scavenging and signaling in plant response to environmental stresses[END_REF]. It is oxidized to monodehydroascorbate (MDHA) and dehydroascorbate (DHA), which are reduced back to ascorbate by MDA reductases (MDHAR) and DHA reductases (DHAR). The reduction of DHAR is performed by glutathione (GSH), forming oxidized glutathione, which is then reduced by the activity of the enzyme glutathione reductase (GR). Ascorbate has been shown to be critical during plant development. Mutants plants known as vitamin c defective (vtc) that are impaired in the synthesis of ascorbate shown developmental defects, such as impairment in the stomata functions and plant growth, which was demonstrated to be linked to the ABA and jasmonate pathways [START_REF] Chen | The Ascorbic Acid Redox State Controls Guard Cell Signaling and Stomatal Movement[END_REF]Kerchev et al., 2011;[START_REF] Bartoli | Ascorbate-Glutathione Cycle and Abiotic Stress Tolerance in Plants Carlos[END_REF]. The importance of ascorbate during abiotic and biotic stress conditions, have been demonstrated by the fact that lowering the level of ascorbate, resulted in a strong impairment in the response to oxidative stress conditions [START_REF] Bartoli | Ascorbate-Glutathione Cycle and Abiotic Stress Tolerance in Plants Carlos[END_REF][START_REF] Kuźniak | Ascorbate-Glutathione Cycle and Biotic Stress Tolerance in Plants[END_REF].

In addition to its major role in the ascorbate/glutathione cycle, glutathione is also serving as reducing power for other ROS scavenging enzymes. GPXs have the capacity to detoxify H 2 O 2 to H 2 O by using glutathione as a reducing power [START_REF] Bela | Plant glutathione peroxidases: Emerging role of the antioxidant enzymes in plant development and stress responses[END_REF]. More specifically in plants, GPX isoforms are reduced by thioredoxins instead of glutathione [START_REF] Iqbal | Hydroperoxide reduction by thioredoxin-specific glutathione peroxidase isoenzymes of Arabidopsis thaliana[END_REF]. In Arabidopsis, there are eight isoforms of GPX, which are localized in different compartments, and their expressions are induced during biotic and abiotic stress conditions, which seems to be important during root developmental process, such as lateral root formation [START_REF] Passaia | The effects of redox controls mediated by glutathione peroxidases on root architecture in Arabidopsis thaliana[END_REF][START_REF] Bela | Plant glutathione peroxidases: Emerging role of the antioxidant enzymes in plant development and stress responses[END_REF].

Overall, there are several players and mechanisms in plants that are responsible to maintain a proper localized and systematic level of ROS, this due to the strong effect that ROS have during plant development through the oxidation of several molecular components, such as in the case of thiol proteins.

I.5 THIOLS HOMEOSTASIS

The next part regarding the thiol modification is adapted from a paper published during my Ph.D. in which I described the functions of thioredoxins in the nucleus, to consult the complete paper please see the Annex 1 of this manuscript.

I.5.1 Thiol modifications

The chemical characteristics of the sulfur atom make Cys and Met residues major sites of oxidation within proteins [START_REF] Davies | The oxidative environment and protein damage[END_REF]. Depending on their pKa and on the pH of the medium, thiol residues are deprotonated into a thiolate residue (R-S-) which is prone to oxidation. This is leading to successive oxidations to sulfenic (R-SOH), sulfinic (R SO 2 H), and sulfonic (R-SO 3 H) acids [START_REF] Davies | The oxidative environment and protein damage[END_REF]. Thiol groups can also form a disulfide bridge (S-S) or react with reactive nitrogen species (RNS) or oxidized glutathione (GSSG)

resulting in S-nitrosylation (R-SNO) or S-glutathionylation (R-S-SG).

I.5.2 Thioredoxin system and glutathione

Thioredoxins are important regulators of the thiol-disulfide status (Figure I.17 and Figure I.18). In this regard, I published during my Ph.D. as a co-author a book chapter describing the functions of the thioredoxin system in plants (Thormählen et al., 2018). (see annex 2). Overall, in Arabidopsis, there are 20 genes encoding to extraplastidial thioredoxins harboring the canonical WCGPC domain. The extraplastidial thioredoxins system uses NADPH-dependent TRX reductases as reducing power known as NTR system. NTR systems are located in different subcellular compartments such as in the cytosol, mitochondria, apoplast, plasma membrane and nucleus, in which NTR plays different functions as a donor of electrons to thioredoxins, that reduced cysteines in target proteins to control several developmental pathways (Figure I.19). Indeed, double mutant of the two NTR isoforms resulted in impairment of the root growth, pollen fitness, and seed development (Reichheld et al., 2007).

Several evidence are suggesting a cross-talk between Glutathione-Glutaredoxin and NTR-Thioredoxin systems in plants (Figure I.18). For example, in Arabidopsis, NADPHdependent thioredoxin reductases (NTR) are able to act as a backup to reduce glutathione in the absence of GR enzymes (Marty et al., 2009). Moreover, it has been demonstrated that thioredoxins TRXh4 and CXXS3 uses Glutathione-Glutaredoxin system as a source of reducer power instead of NTR-Thioredoxin system in plants (Gelhaye et al., 2003). The interplay between glutathione and NTR in plant development was also demonstrated by genetic analysis of the loss-of-function of the two isoforms of NTRA and NTRB, and the weak alleles of the glutathione biosynthesis pathway. Double mutant ntrantrb crossing with cad2 shows significant impairment in the growth of the primary root, a decrease in lateral root development and in auxin transport. Both systems NTR and GRX-GSH have specific targets of proteins with cysteine residues. Crosstalks between the two reduction systems exists, in which glutathione can be the donor of electrons to both TRX and GRX, and can be reduced by TRX alternatively to GR (Adapted from Meyer et al., 2012).

Moreover, crossing ntrantrb with a more impaired mutant in glutathione biosynthesis the rml1, arrested severely the growth of both shoot and root organs (Reichheld et al., 2007). These experimental data bold the critical roles of thiol reduction system such as glutathione in plant development and in auxin signaling (Reichheld et al., 2007;Bashandy et al., 2010).

I.6 GLUTATHIONE I.6.1 Glutathione synthesis and functions

Glutathione (γ-glutamyl-cysteinyl-glycine) is a tripeptide thiol compound that is present in all living kingdoms and in all subcellular compartments (Figure I.20) [START_REF] Foyer | Ascorbate and Glutathione: The Heart of the Redox Hub[END_REF]Meyer et al., 2012;Noctor et al., 2012;[START_REF] Hasanuzzaman | Glutathione in plants: biosynthesis and physiological role in environmental stress tolerance[END_REF] [START_REF] Meister | An Ancient Mechanism Controls the Development of Cells with a Rooting Function in Land Plants[END_REF][START_REF] Wachter | Differential targeting of GSH1 and GSH2 is achieved by multiple transcription initiation: Implications for the compartmentation of glutathione biosynthesis in the Brassicaceae[END_REF]Noctor et al., 2012).

In Arabidopsis, loss-of-function of the enzyme GSH1 produce impairment in the development of the embryo. In contrast, the null mutant gsh2 is not perturbed in embryogenesis but seeds from gsh2 are incapable to germinate. The effects observed in the mutants gsh1 and gsh2 demonstrated the important roles of glutathione in embryogenesis and seed germination [START_REF] Cairns | Maturation of Arabidopsis Seeds Is Dependent on Glutathione Biosynthesis within the Embryo[END_REF][START_REF] Pasternak | Restricting glutathione biosynthesis to the cytosol is sufficient for normal plant development[END_REF]. Besides the gsh1 mutant, several weak alleles of the gene GSH1 have been produced by different groups. Those mutants are able to accumulate only a proportion of the glutathione present in wild-type plants due to mutations located in the catalytic region of the enzyme [START_REF] Parisy | Identification of PAD2 as a γ-glutamylcysteine synthetase highlights the importance of glutathione in disease resistance of Arabidopsis[END_REF]. The root meristemless1 mutant (rml1), was isolated from an EMS-screening experiment in an attempt to find components involved in the development of the root meristem [START_REF] Cheng | RML1 and RML2, Arabidopsis Genes Required for Cell Proliferation at the Root Tip[END_REF]. Based in Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphism technique (RFLP) and complementation tests, the causal mutation was located in chromosome 4 in the exon 7 in the gene GSH1 of the synthesis of glutathione [START_REF] Vernoux | The ROOT MERISTEMLESS1/CADMIUM SENSITIVE2 Gene Defines a Glutathione-Dependent Pathway Involved in Initiation and Maintenance of Cell Division during Postembryonic Root Development[END_REF]. The root meristemless1 (rml1) mutant showed an accumulation of around ~3% of total glutathione compared to wild-type plants, which causes an impairment in the primary root growth [START_REF] Vernoux | The ROOT MERISTEMLESS1/CADMIUM SENSITIVE2 Gene Defines a Glutathione-Dependent Pathway Involved in Initiation and Maintenance of Cell Division during Postembryonic Root Development[END_REF]. In another study, the mutant phytoalexindeficient 2 (pad2-1) characterized by its sensitivity to pathogen infection due to a reduction of the camalexin content, contained a EMS point mutation that produced an amino acid replacement of serine by asparagine in exon 8 of the enzyme GSH1, which decreased the content of total glutathione to around 20% compared to wild-type plants [START_REF] Glazebrook | Isolation of phytoalexin-deficient mutants of Arabidopsis thaliana and characterization of their interactions with bacterial pathogens[END_REF][START_REF] Parisy | Identification of PAD2 as a γ-glutamylcysteine synthetase highlights the importance of glutathione in disease resistance of Arabidopsis[END_REF]. Mutagenesis studies by x-irradiation performed by the Cobbett laboratory isolated mutants that are sensitive to cadmium. The cadmium-sensitive (cad2-1) mutant was identified as a weak allele of the GSH1 gene due to a deletion in the exon 6 near to the catalytic region of the enzyme GSH1, this produced a reduction of total glutathione of around 30%, and demonstrated the critical roles of glutathione in the responses to stress conditions induced by heavy metals (Howden et al., 1995a,b;[START_REF] Cobbett | The glutathione-deficient, cadmiumsensitive mutant, cad2-1, of Arabidopsis thaliana is deficient in γglutamylcysteine synthetase[END_REF]. Another glutathione mutant isolated by EMS mutagenesis is the mutant regulator of apx2 1-1 (rax1-1) that expresses constitutively the gene that encodes to ASCORBATE PEROXIDASE2 (APX2) enzyme, which is involved in the response to photo-oxidative stress conditions. This mutant accumulated only 50% of total glutathione compared to wild-type plants and altered the transcriptional expression of defense genes (Ball et al., 2004). The mutant zinc tolerance induced by iron 1 (zir1) is another weak allele of GSH1 isolated by EMS screening. It contains a point mutation that changes glutamic acid by lysine in position 385 of the GSH1 amino acid sequence. The authors reported that zir1 mutant contains only 15% of total glutathione, which produced an impairment in the response to abiotic stress conditions (Shanmugam et al., 2012).

In addition to the different functions discovery by glutathione mutants, in plants and humans glutathione have been shown to be important in the cell cycle progression to Sphase, in which a high oxidation of glutathione take place in the early G1-phase [START_REF] Menon | A redox cycle within the cell cycle: Ring in the old with the new[END_REF]Vivancos et al., 2010). This seems to be important during developmental process such as lateral roots, in which glutathione is localized in the nucleus of pericycle cells during lateral root development [START_REF] Diaz-Vivancos | Glutathione -Linking cell proliferation to oxidative stress[END_REF]. Other functions of glutathione can be observed with glutathione homologous compounds such as homoglutathione, which differs from glutathione for having a β-alanine instead of glycine in the amino acid sequence. This class of glutathione is found in leguminous plants, and is important for the growth of nodules in Medicago truncatula [START_REF] Frendo | Localisation of glutathione and homoglutathione in Medicago truncatula is correlated to a differential expression of genes involved in their synthesis[END_REF][START_REF] El Msehli | Crucial role of (homo)glutathione in nitrogen fixation in Medicago truncatula nodules[END_REF].

The

I.6.2 Glutathione distribution

Glutathione is a peptide that is present in all subcellular compartments and it is transported in the cell by different types of carriers (Noctor et al., 2012).

Immunocytochemical analysis on leaves and roots showed that glutathione is majorly accumulated in the mitochondrion, chloroplasts, cytosol, nucleus and peroxisomes (Figure I.20) (Zechmann et al., 2008;Delorme-Hinoux et al., 2016). However, it was hardly detected on vacuoles and apoplasts (Zechmann et al., 2008), which can be due to the fact that in those tissues there is a low level of glutathione, and it is more present as glutathione conjugates, which can represent difficulties for its detection [START_REF] Vanacker | Pathogen-Induced Changes in the Antioxidant Status of the Apoplast in Barley leaves[END_REF][START_REF] Ohkama-Ohtsu | Glutathione conjugates in the vacuole are degraded by γ-glutamyl transpeptidase GGT3 in Arabidopsis[END_REF]Zechmann et al., 2008). The glutathione distribution is dependent on specialized proteins that are responsible for its transport. Chloroquine resistance transporter like (CLT), OLIGOPEPTIDE TRANSPORTERS (OPT), and MRP proteins from the ABC family of carriers have been shown to be involved in glutathione distribution in plants (Noctor et al., 2012;[START_REF] Bachhawat | Glutathione transporters[END_REF]. CLT carriers are responsible for the subcellular distribution of glutathione. In Arabidopsis, there are three isoforms of CLT proteins named CLT1, CLT2, and CLT3, which are able to import glutathione from the cytosol and export glutathione intermediates from the chloroplast.

Indeed, the mutation in the genes that encode CLT isoforms led to more oxidized glutathione in the cytosol rather than plastids. Glutathione is a tripeptide involved in a broad number of physiological functions. This is due to the importance of its endogenous level for signaling and detoxification process.

In addition, clt mutants presented less glutathione content and were more sensitive to heavy metal, and oomycete infections, which bold the important roles of CLT carriers in the control of glutathione synthesis [START_REF] Maughan | Plant homologs of the Plasmodium falciparum chloroquine-resistance transporter, PfCRT, are required for glutathione homeostasis and stress responses[END_REF]. In Arabidopsis, OPT6

transporter have been shown to be able to transport not only glutathione, but also GSHconjugates to the apoplast, which seems to be important for glutathione distribution in lateral root initiation and vasculature tissues, in which there is an active cell division [START_REF] Cagnac | AtOPT6 Transports Glutathione Derivatives and Is Induced by Primisulfuron[END_REF]. Later studies confirmed that OPT6 indeed transport GSH but it is not able to transport the oxidized glutathione [START_REF] Pike | Arabidopsis OPT6 is an oligopeptide transporter with exceptionally broad substrate specificity[END_REF]. The ATP-binding cassette transporter ATM3 located in the inner mitochondrial membrane is also suggested to export GSSG and glutathione trisulfide (GS-S-SG) from mitochondria to the cytosol [START_REF] Schaedler | A Conserved Mitochondrial ATP-binding Cassette Transporter Exports Glutathione Polysulfide for Cytosolic Metal Cofactor Assembly[END_REF]. Finally, transport of glutathione conjugates and oxidized glutathione from the cytosol to the vacuole seems to be mediated by the ABC family of proteins of the class MRP. This has been suggested to be important for the redox state of glutathione in the cytosol (Noctor et al., 2012;[START_REF] Tommasini | Transport of Oxidized Glutathione into Barley Vacuoles: Evidence for the Involvement of the Glutathione-S-Conjugate ATPase[END_REF].

Distribution of glutathione and glutathione-conjugates is critical for maintaining the redox state within the cell, which is important during the stress response and for redox signaling. In this regard, glutathione interaction with several specific targets during the physiological process by the so-called glutathionylation is an important aspect of the glutathione versatility in the control of plant development.

I.6.3 Glutathionylation

Glutathionylation is a posttranslational modification, in which glutathione forms a complex with cysteine residues, in a reversible manner, which is highly important for the activity control of target proteins [START_REF] Michelet | Glutathionylation of chloroplast thioredoxin f is a redox signaling mechanism in plants[END_REF][START_REF] Zaffagnini | The thioredoxinindependent isoform of chloroplastic glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase is selectively regulated by glutathionylation[END_REF]Noctor et al., 2012;[START_REF] Diaz-Vivancos | Glutathione -Linking cell proliferation to oxidative stress[END_REF]. Indeed, glutathionylation in a non-catalytic conserved cysteine of the chloroplastic thioredoxin f resulted in the negative control of its activity under oxidative environments [START_REF] Michelet | Glutathionylation of chloroplast thioredoxin f is a redox signaling mechanism in plants[END_REF]. In agreement to the important roles of glutathionylation in photosynthetic tissues, the activity of the chloroplastic A4-glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase (A4-GAPDH), which is involved in the Calvin cycle, it is inhibited by glutathionylation and H 2 O 2 , which suggest a protective role of glutathione to A4-GAPDH under stress conditions [START_REF] Zaffagnini | The thioredoxinindependent isoform of chloroplastic glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase is selectively regulated by glutathionylation[END_REF]. Cytoplasmic GAPDH known as GAPC involving in glycolysis is also a target of glutathionylation in the presence of GSH and H 2 O 2 , suggesting a mechanism dependent of glutathione to control carbon metabolism (Zaffagnini et al., 2013). NADP-dependent isocitrate dehydrogenases (NADP-ICDH), are a family of enzymes that convert isocitrate to 2-oxoglutarate (2-OG) producing NADH or NADPH as a by-product. It was demonstrated that cytosolic cICDH isoform is under redox control in a conserved cysteine which is important for its enzymatic activity (Niazi et al., 2019). In addition, glutathionylation of conserved cysteine of RTL1 member of the RNase Three Like family is important for the control of its endonuclease activity endonucleases of double-stranded (ds)RNA (Charbonnel et al., 2017).

Proteomics studies have identified many other glutathionylated proteins. However, for most of these proteins, the impact of glutathionylation has to be determined [START_REF] Dixon | Stress-Induced Protein S-Glutathionylation in Arabidopsis[END_REF][START_REF] Aroca | Hydrogen Sulfide Signaling in Plants: Emerging Roles of Protein Persulfidation[END_REF].

I.6.4 Glutathione-S-transferases

Several enzymes participate in the control of plant development by glutathione, such as glutathione transferases. Glutathione in its reduced form is able to conjugate with electrophilic molecules in a process mediated by glutathione transferase enzymes (GST) [START_REF] Labrou | Plant GSTome: Structure and functional role in xenome network and plant stress response[END_REF]. This process is important as a strategy to detoxify toxic compounds, and for modulating the activity of several targets proteins for the control of several signaling pathways. The GST family is characterized by harboring a N-terminal thioredoxin-like domain in which glutathione join to GST, and a α-helical C-terminal domain that is involved in the interaction with electrophilic substrates [START_REF] Labrou | Plant GSTome: Structure and functional role in xenome network and plant stress response[END_REF][START_REF] Nianiou-Obeidat | Plant glutathione transferase-mediated stress tolerance: functions and biotechnological applications[END_REF]. Based on the aminoacid sequences in photosynthetic organisms, GST are divided into 14 classes: Dehydroascorbate reductase (DHAR),

Elongation factor 1Bγ (EF1Bγ), Glutathionyl hydroquinone reductase (GHR), Phi (GSTF), Hemerythrin (GSTH), Iota (GSTI), Lambda (GSTL), Theta (GSTT), Tau (GSTU), Zeta (GSTZ), Microsomal prostaglandin E synthase type 2 (mPGES-2), Tetrachlorohydroquinone dehalogenase (TCHQD), and Ure2p [START_REF] Lallement | The still mysterious roles of cysteine-containing glutathione transferases in plants[END_REF]. In Arabidopsis, there are 55 sequences that code for GST in which 28 belong to the tau class, 13 are phi class and the rest are classified in theta, zeta, lambda, DHAR, TCHQD, and microsomal [START_REF] Wagner | Probing the Diversity of the Arabidopsis glutathione S-Transferase Gene Family[END_REF][START_REF] Labrou | Plant GSTome: Structure and functional role in xenome network and plant stress response[END_REF]. They are localized in different subcellular compartments such as in peroxisome, mitochondria, nucleus, cytosol, plastid and plasma membrane (Dixon et al., 2009;[START_REF] Lallement | The still mysterious roles of cysteine-containing glutathione transferases in plants[END_REF]. Several of these GSTs are induced in the roots during biotic and abiotic stress conditions. Null mutation in the gene that encodes GSTU17 produced a decrease in the lateral root number, but at the same time an increase in the lateral root, in a mechanism dependent on glutathione and ABA, which is important during salt and drought stresses [START_REF] Chen | Drought and Salt Stress Tolerance of an Arabidopsis Glutathione S-Transferase U17 Knockout Mutant Are Attributed to the Combined Effect of Glutathione and Abscisic Acid[END_REF]. In addition, GSTU5 is induced by hormone treatments in the roots like auxin, ABA, and cytokinin [START_REF] Van Der Kop | Isolation and characterization of an auxin-inducible glutathione S-transferase gene of Arabidopsis thaliana[END_REF]. Members of the phi family GSTF8 and GSTF2 are expressed in the root system after auxin treatment while GSTF10 is induced by salicylic acid. Family tau is expressed in roots where GSTU5 and GSTU19 have been shown to be induced by exogenous application of auxin [START_REF] Moons | Regulatory and Functional Interactions of Plant Growth Regulators and Plant Glutathione S-Transferases (GSTs)[END_REF]. Moreover, it has been reported that IBA treatments induce the expression of several GST, particularly GSTU4 and GSTU8 that are also induced during phosphorous deprivation. This studies bold the importance of the control of the root system by glutathione mediated by glutathione-S-transferase enzymes [START_REF] Thibaud | Dissection of local and systemic transcriptional responses to phosphate starvation in Arabidopsis[END_REF][START_REF] Audenaert | Root Cap-Derived Auxin Pre-patterns the Longitudinal Axis of the Arabidopsis Root[END_REF]. Besides GSTs, glutathione is also able to interact with other class of enzymes known as glutaredoxins, in which GSH serves as a substrate

for electron donors to GRXs.

I.6.5 Glutaredoxins system in the control of the root development

Besides the control of reactive oxygen species, glutathione is capable to modulate the activity of specific proteins with cysteine residues by a mechanism mediated by glutaredoxins (GRX). Glutaredoxins use glutathione as a source of reducing power to transfer electrons to target proteins that are involved in several metabolic processes. In the Arabidopsis genome, there are 50 genes that encode glutaredoxins and are divided into 5

classes. The class I of glutaredoxins include glutaredoxins GRXC1, GRXC2, GRXC3, GRXC4, GRXC5, and GRXS12. While GRXS14, GRXS15, GRXS16, and GRXS17 are members of the second class, the third class is the biggest group of glutaredoxins known as the ROXY family and the members are enumerated from ROXY1 to ROXY21.

Glutaredoxins with the motif CXXC belong to the group IV and as the ROXY family, et al., 2012;Belin et al., 2015). Few studies have addressed the importance of glutaredoxins in root development.

However, it has been shown that several members of the glutaredoxin clade are highly expressed in different root tissues by which we could envisage that there are possible critical roles that GRXs play during the root development (Table I.1) (Belin et al., 2015).

Genetic studies have shown that a null mutant of the glutaredoxin GRXS17 is critical during primary root growth and meristem activity. Biochemical and genetic analysis demonstrated that GRXS17 interact with Nuclear Factor Y Subunit C11/Negative Cofactor 2a (NF-YC11/NC2a) and BolA2 that are involved in abiotic stress and Fe-S cluster formation respectively [START_REF] Cheng | Arabidopsis monothiol glutaredoxin, AtGRXS17, is critical for temperature-dependent postembryonic growth and development via modulating auxin response[END_REF]Couturier et al., 2014;Knuesting et al., 2015;Yu et al., 2017). Glutaredoxins are also involved in the response to abiotic stress conditions (Patterson et al., 2016). Exogenous application of nitrogen sources induce the accumulation mRNA that encodes members of the ROXY family. Moreover, RNAi lines against ROXY16 were resistant to the effect of N-deprivation in the elongation of the primary root, a phenotype that seems to be dependent on the plant hormone cytokinin, suggesting a negative role of ROXY16 in the control of root responses to elevated accumulation of nitrogen in the rhizosphere (Patterson et al., 2016). Unravel the functions of Glutathione-Glutaredoxin system in plants have been a tough task due to the possible redundancy among the glutaredoxin members, and also the involvement of backup systems that can rescue the activity of glutathione as electron donor.

I.6.6 Transcriptomic control by glutathione

Studies regarding the control of glutathione in gene expression have be done in mutants of their synthesis, and in plants treated with the pharmacological inhibitor of GSH1 enzyme known as BSO (Ball et al., 2004;Koprivova et al., 2010;Schnaubelt et al., 2015;[START_REF] Fukushima | Effects of Combined Low Glutathione with Mild Oxidative and Low Phosphorus Stress on the Metabolism of Arabidopsis thaliana[END_REF]. In the mutant rml1, there was a differential expression profile in both root and shoot organs in a broad number of biological pathways, especially in genes involved in stress responses, which is in agreement with the pivotal roles that glutathione play in ROS homeostasis. Moreover, there were several genes involved in hormone metabolism, such as auxins, abscisic acid, and ethylene, that were up and downregulated in the mutant rml1.

Table I.1 Gene expression of GRX in root tissues.

Information regarding the implications of glutaredoxins during root development is scarce in the research field. However, by in silico analysis, we showed that several genes that encode to glutaredoxins are differentially expressed in different tissues of the root system in Arabidopsis, suggesting putative roles of GRX in the development of the primary root. Future studies should be focused in the genetic characterization in the root system in members of class I and II as well as ROXY19 and CPFC3, due to the high level of expression in different root tissues. Adapted from Belin et al., 2015. Intriguingly, the expression of the gene that encodes to the auxin transporter PIN5 was significantly decreased in the mutant rml1 compared to wild-type plants, which give more evidence of the roles of glutathione level in hormone pathways (Schnaubelt et al., 2015). In agreement with the transcriptomic results found in the mutant rml1, plants treated with the glutathione biosynthesis inhibitor buthionine sulfoximine (BSO), and in the mutants rax1-1 and cad2 showed differential expression profile in several pathways related with both stress response and developmental pathways (Ball et al., 2004;Koprivova et al., 2010). Moreover, comparing the transcriptomic data of the mutants gr1 and cat2 which accumulated more GSSG level showed an overlapping expression of genes involved in plant hormones such as jasmonic acid. Indeed, analysis of the double mutant cat2gr1 demonstrated the important roles of glutathione redox state in H 2 O 2 signaling (Mhamdi et al., 2010a).

I.7 REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES AND AUXINS

It is well known that ROS affect auxin response, decreasing polar auxin transport and inducing the expression of auxin-related genes [START_REF] Yang | ABA-Mediated ROS in Mitochondria Regulate Root Meristem Activity by Controlling PLETHORA Expression in Arabidopsis[END_REF]Orman-Ligeza et al., 2016;[START_REF] Tognetti | Redox regulation at the site of primary growth: auxin, cytokinin and ROS crosstalk[END_REF]. For example, the expression of the glucosyltransferase UGT74E2 gene that controls the auxin IBA metabolism is induced by H 2 O 2 , and the ectopic expression of UGT74E2 produces resistance to osmotic stress and other abiotic stress conditions [START_REF] Tognetti | Perturbation of Indole-3-Butyric Acid Homeostasis by the UDP-Glucosyltransferase UGT74E2 Modulates Arabidopsis Architecture and Water Stress Tolerance[END_REF]. Moreover, increased ROS accumulation was monitored in the elongation zone of the root after few hours of incubation with IBA, which is dependent on the activity of the peroxisome-localized copper amine oxidase ζ (CuAOζ).

This suggests a possible role of reactive oxygen species in the control of the IBA pathway [START_REF] Qu | Peroxisomal CuAOζ and its product H2O2 regulate the distribution of auxin and IBA-dependent lateral root development in Arabidopsis[END_REF].

The link between ROS and auxin can be also seen in mutants that accumulated more H 2 O 2 such as in the case of cat2, which is not able to survive during photorespiratory conditions, a phenotype that is rescued by exogenous applications of auxin-related compounds (Kerchev et al., 2015). Moreover, inhibition of the CAT2 activity also decreases the level of IAA, by the oxidation of tryptophan during biotic stress conditions [START_REF] Yuan | CATALASE2 Coordinates SA-Mediated Repression of Both Auxin Accumulation and JA Biosynthesis in Plant Defenses[END_REF]. Enzymes involved in the tryptophan-dependent biosynthesis of IAA have been shown to be responsive to ROS [START_REF] Cha | A novel thiol-reductase activity of Arabidopsis YUC6 confers drought tolerance independently of auxin biosynthesis[END_REF]. Overexpression of the gene that encodes the enzyme flavin monooxygenase YUC6 led to enhanced resistance to drought stress. This was dependent on an increment in the antioxidant capacity of Arabidopsis plants, due to a moonlighting NADPH-dependent disulfide oxidoreductase activity of YUC6 [START_REF] Cha | A novel thiol-reductase activity of Arabidopsis YUC6 confers drought tolerance independently of auxin biosynthesis[END_REF]. The control of ROS on the auxin transport is not fully elucidated yet. Nevertheless, it has been shown that phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase (PtdIns-3-kinase) and Ca 2+ that are required for the induction of RBOH activity is also able to control the PIN localization at the plasma membrane, suggesting that PtdIns-3-kinase and Ca 2+ levels are key elements linking ROS and auxin transport [START_REF] Zhang | Inositol Trisphosphate-Induced Ca2+ Signaling Modulates Auxin Transport and PIN Polarity[END_REF]. In addition, it has been shown that ROS biosynthesis by RBOH activity is controlled by auxin, in a mechanism involving the auxin-inducible gene RSL4 which is also important for root hair elongation (Mangano et al., 2018). Exogenous application of ROS also induces lateral root formation, which is impaired in auxin mutants such as aux1 and lax3 in a process mediated by RBOH enzymes (Orman-Ligeza et al., 2016). Positive regulation of LR formation as well as in root hair development has been also seen with nitric oxide (NO), in a mechanism that is related to auxin transport and signaling [START_REF] Sanz | Nitric oxide (NO) and phytohormones crosstalk during early plant development[END_REF].

Indeed, nitric oxide positivelycontrol the auxin receptor TIR1/AFB activity by Snitrosylation [START_REF] Terrile | Nitric oxide influences auxin signaling through Snitrosylation of the Arabidopsis TRANSPORT INHIBITOR RESPONSE 1 auxin receptor[END_REF]. However, elevated concentration of NO, as in the case of the mutant nox1, resulted in a decrease of auxin transport in a process involving the auxin carrier PIN, which resulted in a phenotype similar to pin mutants, suggesting that the effect of NO in the auxin pathway is highly dependent on the cellular level of NO [START_REF] Fernandez-Marcos | Nitric oxide causes root apical meristem defects and growth inhibition while reducing PIN-FORMED 1 (PIN1)-dependent acropetal auxin transport[END_REF][START_REF] Sanz | Nitric Oxide Plays a Role in Stem Cell Niche Homeostasis through Its Interaction with Auxin[END_REF].

OBJECTIVES OF THIS STUDY

As have been described so far in this chapter glutathione and auxin are important components in the control of the root system architecture. Indeed, it is well known that decreasing the level of endogenous glutathione by the GSH1 inhibitor buthionine sulfoximine (BSO) produced an impairment in the root system architecture, which have been attributed to the decrease of auxin signaling and transport (Bashandy et al., 2010;Koprivova et al., 2010;[START_REF] Tognetti | Redox regulation at the site of primary growth: auxin, cytokinin and ROS crosstalk[END_REF]. Moreover, decreasing glutathione results in a transcriptional alteration in a similar manner as when plants are altered in the auxin synthesis (Koprivova et al., 2010;[START_REF] Tognetti | Redox regulation at the site of primary growth: auxin, cytokinin and ROS crosstalk[END_REF]. However, the interplay between Finally, as some of the functions of glutathione are dependent of the glutaredoxin family and it was demonstrated that GRXS17 is critical for the development of the root system [START_REF] Cheng | Arabidopsis monothiol glutaredoxin, AtGRXS17, is critical for temperature-dependent postembryonic growth and development via modulating auxin response[END_REF]Knuesting et al., 2015), I studied the physiological pathways in which GRXS17 is involved to control the root architecture, specially in the primary root and lateral root development. For this reason, I performed genetic and bioinformatic analysis to find components GRXS17-dependent that are involved in the control of the root system architecture. Additionally, our group found that the mutant roxy19 presented an increase in the rate of lateral root elongation compared to wild-type plants (data not published). For this reason, I examined the roles of ROXY19 in the root system development.

The next part of this manuscript is divided into three different chapters, each of them focuses on one of the objectives described above. Chapter I aim to describe the research concerning the roles of glutathione in control the auxin IBA, which is highly important for lateral roots and root hair growth. The second and third chapters are exploring the roles of some glutaredoxins in the control of the root development.

II.1 CHAPTER 1 ROOT SYSTEM RESPONSES TO IBA ARE CONTROLLED BY GLUTATHIONE

The result of chapter I is presented in the form in which we are going to submit for publication. However, the enumerating of the figures are adapted to the thesis manuscript format.

IBA endogenous auxin regulates Arabidopsis root system development in a glutathione-dependent way and is important for adaptation to phosphate deprivation.

INTRODUCTION

The plasticity of root system development, combining root growth and root branching, is essential for plants to sustain, adapt and optimize their growth in changing environmental conditions, such as nutrient and water availability, rhizosphere microbiome or soil structure heterogeneity. Root growth relies on the activity of the root apical meristem that regulates histogenesis via the control of cell proliferation. Root branching is a complex organogenesis process that allows the development of new lateral roots (LR) from regularly spaced pericycle founder cells in Arabidopsis thaliana. These founder cells are originally specified by an oscillatory mechanism occurring in the root tip and involving cyclic programmed cell death of lateral root cap cells (Moreno-Risueno et al., 2010;Xuan et al., 2016). In addition to the root system architecture, the development of epidermal root hairs (RH) is particularly sensitive to changes in environmental conditions and contribute to the root system adaptation [START_REF] Grierson | Root Hairs[END_REF].

Among nutrients, phosphorus has a key role in all living organisms and is one of the main limiting factors for plant growth and crop productivity [START_REF] Leinweber | Handling the phosphorus paradox in agriculture and natural ecosystems: Scarcity, necessity, and burden of P[END_REF]. Its homeostasis is highly dependent on phosphate uptake by the root cap [START_REF] Kanno | A novel role for the root cap in phosphate uptake and homeostasis[END_REF].

Phosphate concentration strongly impacts root system development in many plant species including Arabidopsis [START_REF] López-Bucio | Phosphate Availability Alters Architecture and Causes Changes in Hormone Sensitivity in the Arabidopsis[END_REF][START_REF] Friml | Auxin transport -shaping the plant[END_REF][START_REF] Hodge | The plastic plant: Root responses to heterogeneous supplies of nutrients[END_REF]. In particular, general low phosphate availability is well known to increase RH length (Bates and Lynch, 1996). Biotic factors also modulate root development. Among them, rhizospheric PGPR (plant growth promoting rhizobacteria) are able to stimulate RH elongation (Poitout et al., 2017).

Auxins, and particularly the most abundant endogenous one, indole acetic acid (IAA), play a pivotal and integrative role in all steps of root system development, both under optimal or stress conditions [START_REF] Saini | Auxin: a master regulator in plant root development[END_REF][START_REF] Korver | Out of Shape During Stress : A Key Role for Auxin[END_REF]. During LR development, auxin is responsible for the activation of founder cells, the development and organization of the LR primordia, and the emergence of the newly formed LR through the external layers of the primary root. Even earlier, the oscillatory positioning of pericycle founder cells depends on auxin maxima generated via auxin release by dying root cap cells (Moreno-Risueno et al., 2010;[START_REF] Du | Lateral root formation and the multiple roles of auxin[END_REF]. Auxin also modulates RH elongation, which has been shown

to mediate responses to stimuli such as abscisic acid, PGPR or phosphate deprivation (Wang et al., 2017;Poitout et al., 2017;[START_REF] Nacry | A Role for Auxin Redistribution in the Responses of the Root System Architecture to Phosphate Starvation in Arabidopsis[END_REF]. Recently, a set of works on Arabidopsis and rice evidenced that RH response to phosphate deprivation requires an increase in auxin de novo synthesis in the root cap, and its apico-basal transport to the epidermal cells via the auxin influx facilitator AUX1 [START_REF] Giri | Rice auxin influx carrier OsAUX1 facilitates root hair elongation in response to low external phosphate[END_REF][START_REF] Bhosale | A mechanistic framework for auxin dependent Arabidopsis root hair elongation to low external phosphate[END_REF]Parry, 2018).

Indole-3-butyric Acid (IBA) is a structural derivative of IAA, differing by only two additional carbons in the side chain [START_REF] Korasick | Auxin biosynthesis and storage forms[END_REF]. Although convincing evidence support a role for IAA in IBA biosynthesis, the mechanisms responsible and enzymes involved are still unknown (Ludwig- [START_REF] Ludwig-Müller | THE IN VITRO BIOSYNTHESIS OF INDOLE-3-BUTYRIC ACID IN MAIZE[END_REF]Frick and Strader, 2018). It is now broadly accepted that IBA solely acts as an IAA precursor through its -oxidative decarboxylation in peroxisomes (reviewed in Frick and Strader, 2018). This enzymatic process involves several enzymes, some shared with other -oxidation pathways such as PED1, others apparently specific to the IBA-to-IAA conversion, such as IBR1, IBR3, IBR10 and ECH2 (Strader and Bartel, 2011;Frick and Strader, 2018). IBA homeostasis is also regulated via its transport and conjugation, but only few regulators have been identified. Type G ABC transporters ABCG36 and ABCG37 can efflux IBA from the cells [START_REF] Strader | The Arabidopsis PLEIOTROPIC DRUG RESISTANCE8/ABCG36 ATP Binding Cassette Transporter Modulates Sensitivity to the Auxin Precursor Indole-3-Butyric Acid[END_REF][START_REF] Ruzicka | Arabidopsis PIS1 encodes the ABCG37 transporter of auxinic compounds including the auxin precursor indole-3-butyric acid[END_REF], while the generic PXA1/COMATOSE transporter is likely to import IBA into the peroxisome. Like other auxins, IBA is known to conjugate with sugars and amino acids. UGT74E2 and UGT75D1 can conjugate IBA to glucose [START_REF] Tognetti | Perturbation of Indole-3-Butyric Acid Homeostasis by the UDP-Glucosyltransferase UGT74E2 Modulates Arabidopsis Architecture and Water Stress Tolerance[END_REF][START_REF] Li | A Review of Auxin Response Factors (ARFs) in Plants[END_REF], whereas GH3.15 has recently been

shown to be able to conjugate IBA to amino acids [START_REF] Sherp | Arabidopsis thaliana GH3.15 acyl acid amido synthetase has a highly specific substrate preference for the auxin precursor indole-3-butyric acid[END_REF]. IBA-derived IAA plays important roles during root development, including root apical meristem maintenance and adventitious rooting. IBA conversion to IAA is also critical for RH elongation [START_REF] Strader | Conversion of Endogenous Indole-3-Butyric Acid to Indole-3-Acetic Acid Drives Cell Expansion in Arabidopsis Seedlings[END_REF]. Finally, recent works have reported the critical role of IBA-to-IAA conversion in the root cap as a source of auxin for the oscillatory positioning of LR founder cells (De Rybel et al., 2012;[START_REF] Audenaert | Root Cap-Derived Auxin Pre-patterns the Longitudinal Axis of the Arabidopsis Root[END_REF]. IBA-to-IAA conversion taking place in the LR primordium itself also likely participates in further LR development (Strader and Bartel, 2011). Despite all these reported functions in root development, the importance of IBA-derived IAA relatively to other IAA sources is still poorly understood and scarcely documented, particularly in case of changing environmental constraints.

Changes in environmental conditions result in Reactive Oxygen Species (ROS) imbalance, thus affecting the general redox cellular homeostasis. For example, phosphate deficiency alters ROS production in roots (Tyburski et al., 2009). ROS modulate many aspects of plant development, including root system development [START_REF] Singh | Reactive Oxygen Species ( ROS ): Beneficial Companions of Plants ' Developmental Processes[END_REF]Tsukagoshi, 2016). Controlled ROS production by NADPH oxidases are particularly involved in RH elongation and LR development (Orman-ligeza et al., 2016;[START_REF] Mangano | Update on Polar Growth ROS Regulation of Polar Growth in Plant Cells[END_REF]Carol and Dolan, 2006;Mangano et al., 2018). Auxin and ROS pathways interact to control root development, since auxin can trigger ROS production and in turn ROS can affect IAA levels and transport (Orman-ligeza et al., 2016;[START_REF] Tognetti | Redox regulation at the site of primary growth: auxin, cytokinin and ROS crosstalk[END_REF]Zwiewka et al., 2019).

Although ROS are important signalling molecules, they are also potent oxidants that can damage proteins, lipids or nucleic acids. Organisms have evolved many antioxidant systems to prevent or repair such damages (Noctor et al., 2018). Among them are several detoxifying enzymes such as catalases or peroxidases, able to reduce the most stable ROS, hydrogen peroxide (H 2 O 2 ), but also several antioxidant molecules such as ascorbate or glutathione. Glutathione is a small and stable thiol-containing tripeptide (Glu-Cys-Gly) essential for plant survival and present in large concentrations in cells, up to several millimolar (Noctor et al., 2012). It has many roles in almost all cellular compartments, including the detoxification of heavy metals and xenobiotics, sulfur homeostasis, ROS homeostasis and redox signalling. To ensure these functions, glutathione can act as a precursor (e.g. phytochelatins), be conjugated to other molecules via the Glutathione-Stransferase enzyme family, or serve as an electron donor for antioxidant systems (Noctor et al., 2012). Reduced glutathione (GSH) is therefore converted to oxidised glutathione (GSSG) which is reduced back by glutathione reductases. In standard growth conditions GSH is in large excess relative to GSSG. Glutathione biosynthesis is a 2-step reaction, with GSH1 encoding the rate-limiting -glutamylcysteine synthetase and GSH2 encoding a glutathione synthetase (Noctor et al., 2012). Knock out mutations in any of these two genes are lethal. However, genetic screens identified several knock-down alleles of GSH1, allowing to get plants with reduced glutathione levels [START_REF] Vernoux | The ROOT MERISTEMLESS1/CADMIUM SENSITIVE2 Gene Defines a Glutathione-Dependent Pathway Involved in Initiation and Maintenance of Cell Division during Postembryonic Root Development[END_REF]Ball et al., 2004;[START_REF] Jobe | Feedback inhibition by thiols outranks glutathione depletion : a luciferase-based screen reveals glutathione-deficient c -ECS and glutathione synthetase mutants impaired in cadmium-induced sulfate assimilation[END_REF]Howden et al., 1995;[START_REF] Parisy | Identification of PAD2 as a gamma-glutamylcysteine synthetase highlights the importance of glutathione in disease resistance of Arabidopsis[END_REF]Shanmugam et al., 2012).

The importance of glutathione in root development is illustrated by the absence of root meristem maintenance in rml1 mutant, together with the impairment of primary root growth and LR development in less severe gsh1 alleles (Bashandy et al., 2010;Koprivova et al., 2010;Marquez-Garcia et al., 2014;[START_REF] Vernoux | The ROOT MERISTEMLESS1/CADMIUM SENSITIVE2 Gene Defines a Glutathione-Dependent Pathway Involved in Initiation and Maintenance of Cell Division during Postembryonic Root Development[END_REF].

We previously reported that cad2 or pad2 mutants can respond almost normally to exogenous IAA for root development (Bashandy et al., 2010), although auxin transport seems to be affected in glutathione-deficient plants (Koprivova et al., 2010;Bashandy et al., 2010) We also observe that cad2, pad2 and BSO-treated plants behave exactly like wild-type in such assay. Taken together, these results tend to support a role for glutathione in IBAdependent specification or activation of founder cells prior to the LR development process.

Finally, we monitored RH elongation responses to IBA and IAA in glutathione-deficient plants (Figure II.1.1E and II.1.1F). As for LR, we notice that cad2 and pad2 mutants are hyposensitive to the IBA-dependent induction of RH growth but respond normally to IAA.

Similarly, 0.5 mM BSO treatment also reduces the RH response to IBA but not IAA. We can therefore conclude that glutathione is also required for the IBA-dependent induction of RH growth.

Glutathione levels affect auxin signalling in the basal part of the meristem.

We have shown that glutathione deficiency alters RH elongation and founder cells specification or activation in response to IBA. We know that root tip-derived IAA transits trough the lateral root cap to regulate both founder cell positioning and RH growth in the basal part of the meristem. We therefore investigated auxin response in the root tip, by using the DR5:GUS auxin signalling reporter [START_REF] Ulmasov | Aux/IAA Proteins Repress Expression of Reporter Genes Containing Natural and Highly Active Synthetic Auxin Response Elements[END_REF]. In standard growth conditions, we only reveal GUS staining in the quiescent center and the columella, and In order to confirm these results, we used another auxin signalling marker that allows quantification, the DR5:n3EGFP/DR5v2:ntdTomato double reporter line (Liao et al., 2015). We quantified both GFP and Tomato fluorescence in the distal and basal parts of the meristem (Figure We know that IBA homeostasis is also regulated via conjugation with glucose, and this depends on the activity of UGT74E2 and UGT75D1 glycosyltransferases. Again, we could observe that LR and RH responses to IBA are still BSO-sensitive in both mutants (Figure II.1.5C and Supplementary Figure II.1.4). Here also, because of putative redundancy, we generated the double mutant. However, the response to IBA is still reduced in the presence of BSO in this double mutant. Therefore, glycosyltransferases are not the targets of glutathione-dependent regulation.

Finally, we also wanted to investigate the enzymatic pathway involved in the IBA-to-IAA conversion in the peroxisome. genes were all moderately (20 to 50 % increase) but consistently upregulated in cad2 mutant compared to the wild-type. Only IBR1 does not display any significant increase. In any case, this does not allow us to identify any target that could be transcriptionally downregulated upon glutathione depletion. To complete this study and know if IBA conversion is affected, we tried to measure IBA-to-IAA conversion rate but unfortunately failed to obtain such data. To conclude, we were not able to identify which IBA-dependent pathway is modulated by glutathione, but this is not surprising since the knowledge about IBA homeostasis is still very scarce.

IBA and glutathione control RH responses to phosphate deprivation

We have shown that LR and RH responses to exogenous IBA is dependent on glutathione levels. We then wanted to understand the physiological significance of such control. We wondered if cad2 and ibr1 ibr3 ibr10 mutants affect the general response to phosphate deficiency or specifically the response of root hairs to this abiotic stress. We therefore quantified the expression of marker genes known to be induced in response to phosphate deprivation. We can conclude that both IBA conversion to IAA and glutathione are required for proper root hair response to phosphate starvation, without affecting general responses to this abiotic stress.

DISCUSSION

Glutathione regulation of IBA homeostasis or conversion to IAA in the root cap

In this work, we first report that root hair and lateral root responses to exogenous IBA, but not IAA, are impaired in case of glutathione deficiency. More precisely, the glutathionedependent control of IBA response affects early steps of LR development, either founder cell specification or its activation to divide and form a LR primordium. We also show that low glutathione levels alter IBA-dependent auxin signalling in the basal meristem, where RH elongation occurs and LR founder cells are specified. Previous works have reported the central role of the root cap for IBA-to-IAA conversion in the context of LR founder cell specification, and the role of IAA transport from the root cap to the basal meristem for controlling RH elongation [START_REF] Bhosale | A mechanistic framework for auxin dependent Arabidopsis root hair elongation to low external phosphate[END_REF]De Rybel et al., 2012;[START_REF] Giri | Rice auxin influx carrier OsAUX1 facilitates root hair elongation in response to low external phosphate[END_REF].

Finally, we show in this manuscript that transporters known to be involved in the apicobasal flux of IAA to the basal meristem, namely AUX1 and PIN2, are not the targets of the glutathione-dependent control. All these data strongly suggest that glutathione modulates IBA homeostasis or IBA-to-IAA conversion in the root cap, although it does not exclude that the same regulation can also occur in additional tissues. 1 0 0 2b and2c). Could we imagine that two independent routes of IAA synthesis, i.e. the TAA1-dependent de novo synthesis and the IBA-to-IAA conversion, are both critical and induced in the root cap in response to phosphate deprivation? IBA can itself be derived from IAA and we can imagine that an 1 0 2 increase in IBA-to-IAA conversion would require an increase in IBA levels, and therefore more IAA to supply the IBA stock. However, thinking to a root cap increase in IAA to increase IBA in order to increase IAA gets almost no sense. Thus, we could suggest that external low phosphate induces TAA1 expression in the whole plant to increase global available auxin levels on the one hand, and in the other hand activates the local IBA-to-IAA conversion in the root cap to ensure a local appropriate developmental response.

However, we must remind that we are working in vitro with homogenous media containing a given concentration of phosphate. A very elegant recent work has reported that, when subjected to an heterogenous environment, using a Dual-flow-root chip, a single root increases RH length in the medium having the highest phosphate concentration [START_REF] Stanley | Dual-flow-RootChip reveals local adaptations of roots towards environmental asymmetry at the physiological and genetic levels[END_REF]. This observation contrasts with the induction of RH growth by low phosphate in homogenous in vitro media. RH adaptation to phosphate probably results from the crosstalk between a systemic information based on overall available phosphorus in the plant, and a local information based on phosphate availability in the environment, that we cannot differentiate in our in vitro homogenous conditions. Such dual control has been extensively documented for root responses to another important nutrient, nitrogen [START_REF] Ruffel | Systemic nutrient signalling: On the road for nitrate[END_REF]. We might therefore envisage that both sources of IAA are differentially regulated by systemic and local signals. This might ensure a very acute dosage of free IAA to optimize root adaptation to the plant metabolism and environment. In such context, glutathione could be a central regulator of local IBA-to-IAA adaptation to external phosphate in the root cap.

Unravelling the glutathione-dependent regulation of IBA pathway

Although we explored most of known components of IBA pathways, we were not able to identify how glutathione regulates IBA homeostasis or conversion to IAA. This can first be explained by the difficulties to work with IBA which is present in low amounts compared to IAA in plants, and is therefore difficult to detect and quantify (Frick and Strader, 2018).

Moreover, many components of the IBA pathways remain to be identified. For sure, the development of new tools, such as IBA probes or mutants in IBA biosynthesis would be very helpful to depict the important roles played by this auxin in plants. The other problem we faced is the complex multifaceted roles of glutathione in cells, that prevented us to try to decipher the mechanism from the glutathione starting point. The only clue we get is that IBA hyposensitivity is specific to plants with reduced amounts of glutathione but does not occur in plants having more general redox problems (Figure II.1.3). This suggests that IBA regulation by glutathione may act through glutathionylation or via the activity of thiols reductases that specifically depend on glutathione, such as glutaredoxins. One hypothesis would be that IBA, or a precursor, could itself be glutathionylated, which would be responsible for its storage or transport. In Arabidopsis, the Tau class of Glutathione-S-Transferases (GSTU) have been shown to glutathionylate some fatty acids, ranging from short to long acyl chains (Dixon and Edwards, 2009). Similarly, GSTU19 and GSTF8 have been proposed to glutathionylate OPDA, hence allowing its translocation from the chloroplast to the peroxisome where it is converted to Jasmonic Acid [START_REF] Davoine | Adducts of Oxylipin Electrophiles to Glutathione Reflect a 13 Specificity of the Downstream Lipoxygenase Pathway in the Tobacco Hypersensitive Response[END_REF]Dixon and Edwards, 2009).

Because IBA-to-IAA conversion occurs in the peroxisome, we might also envisage that the glutathione-dependent regulation is not specific to IBA pathways but affects the peroxisomal machinery. One of the main peroxisomal functions is the -oxidation of fatty acids, which is essential to supply energy during seed germination. We never observed any problem for seed germination in cad2 or pad2 mutants, in contrast to mutants in peroxisomal functions which generally strongly affect seed germination. However, we 1 0 4 cannot exclude that the glutathione-dependent regulation only occurs in the root cap and therefore mainly affects IBA-ot-IAA conversion although regulating the peroxisome machinery. Among the PEROXINS proteins, many participate in the peroxisomal matrix protein import machinery [START_REF] Cross | Peroxisome biogenesis, protein targeting mechanisms and PEX gene functions in plants[END_REF]. PEX5 is a central cargo protein that recognizes proteins targeted with the specific PTS1 (Peroxisomal Targeting Signal 1) signal peptide and import them into the peroxisome. PEX7 recognizes proteins harbouring another signal peptide (PTS2), and then binds to PEX5 for import into the peroxisome.

Interestingly, previous works on human and Pichia pastoris PEX5 revealed that its activity and oligomerization depend on a redox switch affecting a conserved N-terminal Cystein (Ma et al., 2013;Apanasets et al., 2014). However, such regulation is not specific to glutathione but rather depends on the redox status and the content in ROS of peroxisomes.

Finally, the last hypothesis would be that glutathione regulates IBA homeostasis or conversion to IAA via a yet unidentified or not assayed component. New attempts in quantifying IBA-to-IAA conversion would be helpful in order to confirm this hypothesis.

Concerning the IBA-to-IAA -oxidation pathway in the peroxisome, PED1 has been reported to harbour a redox-sensitive switch affecting a conserved cysteine and that participates in activating the enzyme when reduced [START_REF] Pye | Peroxisomal plant 3-ketoacyl-CoA thiolase structure and activity are regulated by a sensitive redox switch[END_REF]. In contrast to most of the other enzymes involved in the conversion pathway, PED1 is targeted to the peroxisome through a PTS2 signal peptide. It is interesting to notice that pex5-1, in contrast to pex5-10, is not altered in PTS1-dependent import but only in PTS2-dependent import of proteins into the peroxisome (Woodward and [START_REF] Rampey | A Family of Auxin-Conjugate Hydrolases That Contributes to Free Indole-3-Acetic Acid Levels during Arabidopsis Germination[END_REF][START_REF] Khan | pex5 Mutants That Differentially Disrupt PTS1 and PTS2 Peroxisomal Matrix Protein Import in Arabidopsis[END_REF]. pex5-1, although not displaying any phenotype during germination, is highly affected in IBA responses. This might reveal that IBA to IAA conversion is highly dependent on a PTS2-targeted protein, and PED1 could therefore be a good candidate to 1 0 5 assay. However, PED1 is not specific to IBA-to-IAA pathway since it acts in almost all oxidation pathways occurring in the peroxisome. We could imagine a local glutathionedependent regulation of PED1 activity specifically in the root cap.

MATERIALS AND METHODS

Plant material and growth conditions

Wild-type plants and mutants used in this study were in the Arabidopsis thaliana ecotype Col-0. Mutants of the biosynthesis of glutathione: cad2-1, pad2-1, and zir1 are described on Howden et al., 1995[START_REF] Parisy | Identification of PAD2 as a γ-glutamylcysteine synthetase highlights the importance of glutathione in disease resistance of Arabidopsis[END_REF], and Shanmugam et al., 2012, respectively, while gr1 and ntrantrb mutants are described on Mhamdi et al., 2010, andBashandy et al., 2010, respectively. Mutant cat2-1 impaired in catalase is described in [START_REF] Bueso | The lithium tolerance of the Arabidopsis cat2 mutant reveals a cross-talk between oxidative stress and ethylene[END_REF].

The ibr3, ibr10, ech2, ibr1, and triple mutant ibr1ibr3ibr10 were donated by the group of Lucia Strader (Strader et al., 2011). Mutant pin2 (eir1-1) is described in Roman et al.,

Phenotypic analyses of the root system

Lateral root density was quantified 10 days after sowing by counting the number of visible lateral roots emerged divided by the length of the region in which the LR was counted.

Lateral root primordia density was calculated 6 days after sowing, in the same manner using a light microscope (Axioscop2, Zeiss). The study of the lateral root primordia development was performed by synchronization of the LRP initiation, that consisted of changing the orientation of the plates 90° and observing the stage of LRP after 48 hours.

Root hair lengths were quantified 8 days after sowing, excepted of M.loti experiments (see plant material and growth conditions). Primary root elongation rate was quantified by calculating the difference in the length of the root from day 8 and day 10. The analyses were made with ImageJ (https://imagej.nih.gov/ij/).

Glutathione measurements

Analysis of glutathione was performed using the enzymatic recycling methods, which is a modification of the classic Tietze recycling assay for total glutathione (Tietze, 1969;Rahman et al., 2007). The method consists in the reduction of GSSG by glutathione

Statistics analysis

All the experiments presented in this study were performed at least three independent biological repetitions. Each biological repetition from in vitro experiments consisted of two plates containing around 12 seeds for the mutant and the control in the same plate. Statistic analyses were performed with t-student test. Significant differences were considered when the p-value is ≤ to 0.01 (represented by one *) or ≤ 0.001 (represented with two **).

PERSPECTIVES

We demonstrated the important roles that glutathione plays in the IBA pathway in the induction of lateral roots and in regulating root hair lengths. However, how glutathione controls the IBA pathway is a question that still elusive in this study. As it can be seen in chapter I, we investigated several known components of the IBA transport, conjugation, and conversion, in which glutathione might act to control the IBA functions, but not possible targets were found. Nevertheless, additional experiments need to be done in order to rule out such components. For example, regarding the IBA efflux, PDR8 and PDR9

belong to a big family of proteins with 150 members in Arabidopsis [START_REF] Hwang | Plant ABC Transporters Enable Many Unique Aspects of a Terrestrial Plant's Lifestyle[END_REF]. 1 2 0

Nevertheless, these data have to be repetead in order to confirm the results, and compared with other methods to measure the conversion, such as with mass spectrometric analyses.

Besides the peroxisomal enzymes involved in the conversion, there are other components that could be involved. Peroxins are a group of proteins that are critical for the peroxisome activities, and the uptake of proteins with the peroxisomal label PTS1 and PTS2. Among them, PEX5 is one of the most important peroxins involved in the uptake of components with both tags PTS1 and PTS2. Intriguingly, it has been demonstrated that PEX5 activity in humans is depending on a cysteine in the position 11 that is subject to oxidation, forming a disulfide bond that prevents its monoubiquitination of the PEX5 protein, perturbing as a consequence the recycling of PEX5 to the cytosol (Apanasets et al., 2014). Moreover, it was also demonstrated that PEX5 in Pichia pastoris is under redox control on Cysteine 10 forming a disulfide bond. However, the mechanism seems to be different with respect to human. In yeast, oxidation of PEX5 in the cytosol allows its interaction with PTS1 proteins, and then, reduction of PEX5 in the peroxisome resultes in the release of PTS1 protein into the peroxisomal matrix (Ma et al., 2013). Interestingly, comparison of the amino acid sequences of PEX5 from human and yeast with plant PEX5 homologs (Arabidopsis and rice), showed conservation of this N-terminal cysteine (Cys13 in plants) (Figure II.1.9). The evidence that PEX5 is under redox control in yeast and in animals, and the identification of a close conserved cysteine in the N-terminal region of the amino acid sequence, place PEX5 as a good candidate for the control of IBA by glutathione (Ma et al., 2013;Apanasets et al., 2014). Indeed, when testing the response to IBA in the pex5-1 mutant allele, we observed an impaired inhibition of lateral root development by BSO, which was not observed in the pex7 mutant (Figure II.1.10). This might indicate a role of PEX5 in the glutathione-dependent IBA control of lateral root development. Nevertheless, this data has to be taken with caution due to the relative resistance of the mutant pex5-1 to IBA. In this regard, quantification of the uptake of PTS2 proteins with PTS2-GFP marker will give us more evidence of the possible roles that PEX5 might plays in the control of IBA by glutathione.

It is important to mention that the IBA response seems not to be affected in mutants accumulating H 2 O 2 like in the cat2 mutant, the major isoform of the three catalases in Arabidopsis [START_REF] Bueso | The lithium tolerance of the Arabidopsis cat2 mutant reveals a cross-talk between oxidative stress and ethylene[END_REF]Mhamdi et al., 2010b), although glutathione homeostasis is affected in this mutant. Other thiol reduction mutants like the ntra ntrb mutant seem also unaffected. Therefore, it will be interesting further explore the specificity of the IBA in other mutant backgrounds or in plants treated with different oxidative agents.

Besides the roles of glutathione in the IBA pathway, we also demonstrated that both glutathione and IBA are involved in the response to phosphorous deprivation. However, several aspects remain to be elucidated, for example, there is a lack of evidence of the mechanism in which both are participating in the response, it could even possible that glutathione and IBA are participating in the response independent of each other. For this reason, finding the target by which glutathione control the IBA pathway would be necessary to answer this question.

II.2 CHAPTER 2: CONTRIBUTION OF GLUTAREDOXINS IN LATERAL ROOT DEVELOPMENT

In chapter one, I demonstrated by genetic and molecular experiments that glutathione is critical for the auxin response to IBA, which illustrates the important roles of glutathione, not only as a ROS scavenging compound but also as a major regulator of developmental processes, interacting with hormonal pathways and modulating responses to nutrient deprivation.

The capacity of glutathione to perform different roles in plants is in part due to its nature as an electron donor [START_REF] Foyer | Ascorbate and Glutathione: The Heart of the Redox Hub[END_REF][START_REF] Hasanuzzaman | Glutathione in plants: biosynthesis and physiological role in environmental stress tolerance[END_REF].

Glutaredoxins are thiol enzymes that play a variety of functions in plants, and as their name suggests, they use glutathione as a substrate to reduce specific thiol proteins. This post-translational modification allows glutaredoxins to control the conformation, the subcellular localization or the activity of their targets depending on the cellular environment (Meyer et al., 2012;Belin et al., 2015). While several studies have described the roles of glutaredoxins in shoot development, little is known about the functions that GRX perform in the root system (Li et al., 2009a(Li et al., , 2011;;Knuesting et al., 2015;Patterson et al 2015;[START_REF] Mhamdi | Reactive oxygen species in plant development[END_REF]. For this reason, this chapter aims to describe our findings related to the glutaredoxins functions during root development. This research was submitted to the journal Frontiers in Plant Science. The enumerating of the figures are adapted to the thesis manuscript format.

Introduction

The successful localization and uptake of nutrient sources by the terrestrial plants depend on their capacity of post-embryonic organogenesis and on the cellular plasticity of the primary root (PR). Lateral roots (LR) are new organs formed from xylem pools pericycle (XPP) founder cells through eight distinctive stages of development. Concisely, in the early stages (I to IV) XPP cells dedifferentiate and proliferate within the endodermis to form the lateral root primordia (LRP), which continually divide and grow through the cellular layers from the endodermis until emerging from the epidermis of the parent root in the latest stages of formation (Malamy and Benfey, 1997;Péret et al., 2009). Prebranch sites in which cells acquire competence to develop lateral root are marked by the auxindependent signal that takes place in the transition zone between proliferating and elongating cells of the PR meristem (Möller et al., 2017). Both initiation and development of LR are complex processes that are controlled by a broad number of molecular pathways.

Reactive oxygen species (ROS) are signaling compounds produced as by-products of cellular metabolism as well as by biotic an abiotic stress that play a crucial role during the formation of lateral roots (Manzano et al., 2014). Indeed, overproduction of intracellular ROS by genetic manipulation increases the number of prebranch sites and facilitates the emergence of lateral root primordia (Manzano et al., 2014;[START_REF] Li | AtrbohD and AtrbohF negatively regulate lateral root development by changing the localized accumulation of superoxide in primary roots of Arabidopsis[END_REF]Orman-Ligeza et al., 2016). However, due to the high reactivity of ROS and their ability to damage many cellular components, their accumulation is tightly controlled by several mechanisms. Key components in the control of intracellular ROS levels and signaling in plants are thiol disulfide oxidoreductases that share the canonical CxxC motif at the active site, which 1 2 5

allows the transfer of electrons to cysteine residues of specific targets proteins. Members belonging to this family are thioredoxins (TRX) and glutaredoxins (GRX) that use as electron donors thioredoxin reductase (TR) and glutathione in its reduced state (GSH), respectively, forming the so-called NADPH-dependent thioredoxin reductase (NTS) and NADPH-dependent glutathione/glutaredoxin (NGS) systems. These systems mediate the redox control of proteins involved in many cellular functions, such as ATP synthesis, carbon metabolism and defense responses [START_REF] Rouhier | The role of glutathione in photosynthetic organisms: emerging functions for glutaredoxins and glutathionylation[END_REF]Meyer et al., 2008;Geigenberger et al., 2017;Thormählen et al., 2018). Efforts to unravel physiological functions of the thiol reduction systems have been limited by the redundancy among both NGS and NTS pathways. However, the genetic manipulation of both genes that encode cytosolic thioredoxin reductases NTRA and NTRB (ntra ntrb double mutant), and the use of weak alleles (cad2 or pad2) of GSH1, encoding a rate-limiting enzyme in GSH synthesis, allowed to overcome this redundancy by altering the reduction capacity of cytosolic/nuclear TRX and GRX. Interestingly, both ntra ntrb double mutant and cad2 mutant are only mildly affected in their root system development, the ntra ntrb cad2 triple mutant synergistically displays severe defects in root system architecture, affecting both PR growth and LR development (Reichheld et al., 2007;Bashandy et al., 2010). This suggests that some cytosolic and/or nuclear TRX and GRX are key players controlling root system architecture in Arabidopsis. In this work, we focused on glutaredoxins, heat-stable oxidoreductases that catalyze the reduction of thiols residues in the presence of GSH. The number of GRX in land plants is high compared to the number of genes that encode them in other organisms. In Arabidopsis, there are thirty-one members compared to six GRX in yeast, and five in both E. coli and mammals (Meyer et al., 2012). They are divided in five classes according to the amino acid sequence of the active site and several of them are highly expressed across different root tissues (Rouhier et al., 2009;[START_REF] Meyer | Thioredoxins and glutaredoxins: unifying elements in redox biology[END_REF]Belin et al., 2015). Among those GRX, the iron-sulfur cluster-containing glutaredoxin GRXS17 is involved in plants adaptation against abiotic stresses such as heat, light, and iron deficiency [START_REF] Cheng | Arabidopsis monothiol glutaredoxin, AtGRXS17, is critical for temperature-dependent postembryonic growth and development via modulating auxin response[END_REF]Knuesting et al., 2015;Yu et al., 2017). It is localized in both nucleus and cytosol and is present in all organs in Arabidopsis but more highly expressed in stems, young leaves, flowers, and roots. Some of the targets of GRXS17 have been isolated and their interactions demonstrated in vivo like the Nuclear Factor Y Subunit C11/Negative Cofactor 2a (NF-YC11/NC2a) which is important during light stress [START_REF] Cheng | Arabidopsis monothiol glutaredoxin, AtGRXS17, is critical for temperature-dependent postembryonic growth and development via modulating auxin response[END_REF]Knuesting et al., 2015;Yu et al., 2017), and the BolA2 isoform which interaction might be important in the Fe-S cluster formation in both cytosol and nucleus (Couturier et al., 2014;[START_REF] Dhalleine | Putative roles of glutaredoxin-BolA holo-heterodimers in plants[END_REF]. The grxs17 knock-out mutant displays severe defects in root system development, in particular a clear reduction in PR growth and meristem size maintenance [START_REF] Cheng | Arabidopsis monothiol glutaredoxin, AtGRXS17, is critical for temperature-dependent postembryonic growth and development via modulating auxin response[END_REF]Knuesting et al., 2015). However, there is no report about its function during LR development. Interestingly, other nucleo cytoplasmic GRX have been shown to play major roles during plant development, particularly those from the ROXY class (subgroup III). For example, ROXY1 and ROXY2 are controlling Arabidopsis flower development by interacting with the TGA family of transcription factors (Li et al., 2009b;[START_REF] Murmu | Arabidopsis basic leucine-zipper transcription factors TGA9 and TGA10 interact with floral glutaredoxins ROXY1 and ROXY2 and are redundantly required for anther development[END_REF]Li et al., 2011). Another example in Arabidopsis root development has been reported by Patterson and coworkers in 2016, since a cluster of redundant ROXY genes (ROXY11, 12, 13 and 15) represses the PR growth in response to nitrate, in a cytokinin-dependent way. Several other studies on maize and rice support the involvement of GRX in controlling plant development [START_REF] Wang | Conserved functions of Arabidopsis and rice CC-type glutaredoxins in flower development and pathogen response[END_REF][START_REF] Hong | Somatic and reproductive cell development in rice anther is regulated by a putative glutaredoxin[END_REF][START_REF] Yang | A maize glutaredoxin gene, Abphyl2, regulates shoot meristem size and phyllotaxy[END_REF][START_REF] Mhamdi | Reactive oxygen species in plant development[END_REF].

Despite the increasing evidence of the important roles of glutaredoxins in modulating plant development, there was no example of any GRX or TRX involved in the control of lateral root development so far. Here, after an in silico overview of GRX gene expression during the development of Arabidopsis lateral root primordium, we concentrate on the functions of ROXY19 and GRXS17 in modulating the initiation and growth of lateral roots. We

show that ROXY19 has a dual role in controlling both the initiation and the elongation of the lateral root, whereas GRXS17 specifically regulates the lateral root primordium development. In order to better understand how GRXS17 affects both PR meristem and LR primordium, we performed a genetic suppressor screening that revealed an uncoupling between both root system functions of GRXS17.

Plant material and growth conditions

The roxy19 (previously described in Huang et al., 2016) mutant carries a Ds element insertion 45bp before the Start codon and is derived from No-0 Arabidopsis thaliana ecotype. The transgenic line overexpressing ROXY19 in Col-0 ecotype (Huang et al., 2016) has been provided by Christiane Gatz. grxs17 SALK T-DNA insertion and Pro35S:GRXS17-GFP in grxs17 lines were previously described in Knuesting et al., 2015. ROXY19 and GRXS17 correspond to the AGI numbers At1g28480 and At4g04950, respectively. Arabidopsis surface-sterilized seeds were placed in a 0.5X Murashige and Skoog medium without sucrose with the addition of 0.8% of plant agar, and placed vertically, without stratification, in a growth chamber (22°C with a 16-h photoperiod and a photon flux of 160 μmol.m -2 .s -1 ). ABA treatments were performed after 5 days of growth on normal MS1/2 medium, by transferring seedlings via a nylon mesh to fresh medium, containing or not the indicated concentrations of ABA.

Phenotypic analyses of root system

For the study of the root system, images of the plates were taken with a canon camera (PowerShot A620). Photographs were analyzed and quantified using the public domain image analysis program ImageJ version 1.52 (http://rsb.info.nih.gov/ij/) and the NeuronJ plugin (https://imagescience.org/meijering/software/neuronj/). Lateral root density is the result of the number of lateral roots visually identified with the help of a stereo-microscope (MZ12, Leica), divided by the length of the primary root part in which lateral roots are visible. In order to analyse LRP development, plates containing 6-day-old plants were turned 90° and plants were observed after 48 hours using a standard optical microscope (Axioscop2, Zeiss).

Isolation of suppressor mutants of the grxs17 phenotype

A population of 50,000 grxs17 seeds (M0) was chemically mutagenized using 0.3% ethyl methanesulfonate according to standard procedures [START_REF] Lightner | 14Seed Mutagenesis of Arabidopsis[END_REF]. The progeny of 40,000 mutagenized seeds (M1) was harvested in 384 pools, and 400 seeds from each pool were used to screen for mutant M2 plants displaying reversion of PR and LR grxs17 phenotypes. 90 putative candidates were grown and propagated, and the M3 progeny was screened for the same phenotypes in order to validate the reverted phenotype.

We selected the 12 best candidates that are presented in this manuscript.

Immunodetection of GRXS17

Total protein extraction was performed by grinding tissues in liquid nitrogen and resuspension in extraction buffer containing 25mM of Tris-HCl pH 7.6, 75 mM NaCl, 10mM DTT, 1mM phenylmethylsulfonyl fluoride (PMSF) and 0.15% NP-40. After measurements of the protein concentration by Bradford method (1976), 10 μg proteins were separated by SDS/PAGE and transferred to nitrocellulose membranes. GRXS17 were detected by western blot using rabbit polyclonal antibodies against GRXS17 diluted to 1:25 000. Goat anti-rabbit antibodies conjugated to horseradish peroxidase (1:10 000) were used as secondary antibodies and revealed with enhanced chemiluminescence reagents (Immobilon Western Chemiluminescent HRP Sbstrate, Millipore).

Results

Glutaredoxin gene expression during lateral root primordia development

In 1 3 0

ROXY19 regulates both LR density and LR elongation

To further investigate the function of glutaredoxins in lateral root formation, we decided to focus onthe importance of two specific GRX genes. First, GRXS17 is a serious candidate since it has previously been shown to be a critical component for normal root system development [START_REF] Cheng | Arabidopsis monothiol glutaredoxin, AtGRXS17, is critical for temperature-dependent postembryonic growth and development via modulating auxin response[END_REF]Knuesting et al., 2015). We also focused on ROXY19, 1 3 2

the

Identification of GRXS17-dependent pathways during root development

In order to identify components of GRXS17-dependent pathways that regulate root system development, we decided to use a forward genetic strategy, looking for grxs17 suppressor mutations. We randomly mutagenized a grxs17 mutant population using ethyl

Discussion

There are thirty-one genes encoding glutaredoxins in the Arabidopsis genome and some of them have been shown to be important in plant development and in plant responses to biotic and abiotic stress conditions (Reichheld et al., 2007;Bashandy et al., 2010;[START_REF] Cheng | Arabidopsis monothiol glutaredoxin, AtGRXS17, is critical for temperature-dependent postembryonic growth and development via modulating auxin response[END_REF]Patterson et al., 2016). However, despite several members of glutaredoxin family are highly and differentially expressed in all parts of the root system (Belin et al., 2015), most of their specific roles in root development remain unknown.

ROXY19 as a critical component of LR development

We show that ROXY19 has a dual function as a positive regulator of LR initiation and an inhibitor of LR elongation. ROXY19 is a CC-type glutaredoxin that is induced by salicylic acid (SA) and has been shown to be involved in the crosstalk of salicylic acid and jasmonic acid (JA) by interacting with basic/leucine zipper-type transcription factors TGA, leading to the suppression of the jasmonic/ethylene response pathway during detoxification [START_REF] Ndamukong | SA-inducible Arabidopsis glutaredoxin interacts with TGA factors and suppresses JA-responsive PDF1.2 transcription[END_REF]Zander et al., 2012;Herrera-Vásquez et al., 2015;Huang et al., 2016). The role of SA on LR development is poorly studied. Some study report that the exogenous addition of SA inhibits LR density [START_REF] Armengot | Functional interplay between protein kinase CK 2 and salicylic acid sustains PIN transcriptional expression and root development[END_REF] [START_REF] Armengot | Functional interplay between protein kinase CK 2 and salicylic acid sustains PIN transcriptional expression and root development[END_REF], while other studies show that LR density is increased by Plant Growth-Promoting Rhizobacteria (PGPR) in a SA-dependent way [START_REF] Shi | Inhibition of primary roots and stimulation of lateral root development in Arabidopsis thaliana by the rhizobacterium Serratia marcescens 90-166 is through both auxin-dependent and-independent signaling pathways[END_REF]. Because ROXY19 gene expression very much depends on SA and environmental cues affecting SA levels (UV, wounding, or bacteria), ROXY19 could be a key component in fine-tuning and adapting LR development to such biotic and abiotic constraints. Abscisic acid (ABA) is a major regulator of root system architecture since many studies showed effects of ABA on LR development, although contradictory effects have also been reported. The complexity of ABA-dependent LR control could be explained by some differences among species and by the influence of other environmental cues on ABA functions [START_REF] Harris | Abscisic acid: hidden architect of root system structure[END_REF]. In our standard in vitro growth conditions we show that ABA first inhibits LR development, but thereafter promote the LR elongation rate. This is perfectly consistent with the study from Zhao et al., (2014) that shows an inhibitory role of ABA by promoting LR quiescence, followed by a PYL8-dependent recovery phase during which ABA promotes LR elongation by boosting auxin pathways. We show that this positive effect of ABA on LR growth under standard growth conditions switches to a clear inhibitoryeffect of ABA when ROXY19 gene expression is severely decreased. This suggests that ROXY19 is a major regulator of ABA effects on LR development. We propose that ROXY19 could therefore be a central component of the crosstalk allowing the LR system to adapt its development to the complex combination of biotic and abiotic environmental constraints. Further studies aiming to unravel the ROXY19-dependent mechanisms that control LR development and its responses to ABA would probably result in major advances in understanding the root system adaptation to its environment. We know that ROXY19 binds and regulates some TGA transcription factors, even though the molecular mechanism is not known yet. Such a regulation could also be important for the control of LR development. Interestingly, two of these TGA factors (TGA1 and TGA4)

have been reported to regulate LR initiation in response to nitrate [START_REF] Alvarez | Systems approach identifies TGA 1 and TGA 4 transcription factors as important regulatory components of the nitrate response of Arabidopsis thaliana roots[END_REF].

Other TGA genes, such as TGA9 and TGA10, are also strongly expressed in LR [START_REF] Winter | An "Electronic Fluorescent Pictograph" browser for exploring and analyzing large-scale biological data sets[END_REF]. Genetic and biochemical interaction studies between ROXY19 and these candidate TGA would probably bring useful information about the thiol-dependent redox mechanisms controlling LR development.

Lateral root primordia development is depending on GRXS17 functions

The involvement of GRXS17 in the formation of new organs from the primary root is supported by the strong developmental delay affecting LRP in grxs17 mutant during the lateral root synchronization assay. This is consistent with the observed increase in LRP number and the decrease in emerged LR in young plantlets. Together with its already described function in the PR meristem, this suggests that GRXS17 plays a critical and general role in all meristems. Similar to primary meristems, LR primodium formation might rely from cell division impairment (Cheng et al., 2011, Knuesting et al., 2015, and personal unpublished data). Moreover, the identification of many suppressor mutants restoring both PR and LR wild-type phenotypes supports the hypothesis that GRXS17 plays similar functions during PR and LR development. Identification of the candidate suppressor mutations will help to decipher the way GRXS17 is acting to regulate LR development. This might occur through crosstalk between GRXS17 and auxin signaling which play a major role in LR development (Casimiro et al., 2003;[START_REF] Cheng | Arabidopsis monothiol glutaredoxin, AtGRXS17, is critical for temperature-dependent postembryonic growth and development via modulating auxin response[END_REF].

Another hypothesis could be related to iron metabolism in which GRXS17 has been shown to be involved (Yu et al., 2017). The evidence reported in this work suggest a critical function of GRXS17 in the early stages of the LRP development, while ROXY19 seems to act negatively in the priming and elongation process after the emergence of the LRP.

Over-accumulation of iron decrease the number of mature lateral roots and increase the number of lateral root primordia, which phenocopy the grxs17 impairment in the lateral root primordia development (Manzano et al., 2014;[START_REF] Reyt | Iron-and ferritindependent reactive oxygen species distribution: impact on Arabidopsis root system architecture[END_REF]. Future experiments have to address the link between iron metabolism and GRXS17 in lateral root development. The identification of the causal mutation in the suppressor mutants we identified here will be key for understanding the role of GRXS17 in LR development.

Although most suppressor mutants (e.g. 41C3) are able to complement both grxs17 PR elongation and LR development phenotypes, the analysis of the 33G2 mutant allowed us to uncouple these two physiological pathways. In this particular case, the causal mutation might reveal a new key player in LRP development.

ROXY19 and GRXS17 are distinct regulators of the lateral root development

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PERSPECTIVES

Based on the reviewers's comments, this manuscript was not accepted for publication in the present form. I will summarize and analyze reviewers's criticisms, propose perspectives to address these concerns which should improve the manuscript for future resubmission.

After examining those observations from the reviewers, we agree that additional experimental data would be required to gain more information and to clarify the roles of glutaredoxins ROXY19 and GRXS17 in controlling root development.

First, reviewers criticize the lack of information concerning ROS levels and glutathione redox status in the grx mutants. Indeed, it would be useful to get such information in order to better analyze GRX functions in the context of the general redox environment. This could be performed by using the fluorescent compound 2,7-Dichlorodihydrofluorescein (DCFH-DA), that measure ROS in a non-specific manner, but also by crossing the grx mutants with other redox reporters such as roGFP2 which reports glutathione redox status, and HyPer H 2 O 2 specific genetically-encoded probe [START_REF] Belousov | Genetically encoded fluorescent indicator for intracellular hydrogen peroxide[END_REF]. We therefore initiated such crosses.

A second major criticism addresses the ABA phenotype reported in our manuscript. Indeed, we only present preliminary experiments assaying roxy19 LR responses to exogenous ABA. Further work is required in order to better understand the involvement of ROXY19 in regulating LR responses to both exogenous and endogenous ABA. First, endogenous ABA levels could be quantified in roxy19 versus wild-type plants. Global quantifications using LC-MS/MS or immunodetection assays could be performed and more precise tissue-specific detection of ABA using the FRET-based probe ABAleon, already available in the lab, would allow to monitor ABA during LR development [START_REF] Waadt | FRET-based reporters for the direct visualization of abscisic acid concentration changes and distribution in Arabidopsis[END_REF]. In order to investigate ROXY19 functions in controlling endogenous ABA pathways, we should cross roxy19 with mutants affected in the ABA pathway abcg25, abi1-1, abi2-1, abi3-1, aba1-3, aba2-3 (Duan et al., 2013;[START_REF] Kuromori | ABA Transport and Plant Water Stress Responses[END_REF]. Another possibility would be to address situations known to increase ABA levels such as wild-type plants submitted to water stress or plants overexpressing ZEP ABA-biosynthesis gene [START_REF] Park | Overexpression of Arabidopsis ZEP enhances tolerance to osmotic stress[END_REF]. We should also analyze, as explained in the previous paragraph, ROS and glutathione redox status in response to ABA in both wild-type and roxy19 mutant all along with LR development. Finally, ROXY19 expression should be analyzed in situations affecting ABA levels, either endogenously or exogenously. This set of experiments would help us in clarifying the function of ROXY19 in the context of ABA-dependent control of LR development.

The last major criticism of the reviewers concerns the genetic suppressor screening we set up to identify GRXS17-dependent pathways in regulating both primary root and lateral root development. In the proposed we present the genetic screen and its direct output, the identification and characterization of several candidates that suppress either one or both root phenotypes of grxs17. However, we do not address the identification of loci affected in those candidates. Indeed, we wanted to present the different mutants identified in order to show that the GRXS17-dependent control of both primary root growth and LR development involves common components, although we were also able to uncouple both pathways since a few mutants specifically suppress grxs17 phenotypes either in primary root or lateral root. The identification of the causal mutation of the suppressor mutants was a clear objective of my PhD and will be presented in the next chapter.

II.3 CHAPTER 3: IDENTIFICATION OF THE CAUSAL MUTATION IN THE SUPPRESSOR

VARIANTS OF THE grxs17 MUTANT

II.3.1 INTRODUCTION

The induction of point mutations in the genome by Ethyl methanesulfonate (EMS), is a powerful tool that has been used for a long time in forward genetics in order to identify genes that are involved in a particular physiological function [START_REF] Greene | Spectrum of Chemically Induced Mutations From a Large-Scale Reverse-Genetic Screen in Arabidopsis[END_REF]Kim et al., 2006;[START_REF] Lightner | Seed Mutagenesis of Arabidopsis. Arabidopsis Protocols[END_REF]. Overall, EMS generate random point mutations by the specific alkylation of the nucleotide guanine producing O 6 -ethylguanine, which pairs with thymine instead of cytosine, resulting in the transition from G-C to A-T pairs. It had been reported that 5% of the EMS-mutations consist of stop codons, while around 65% results in missense variants and the rest are silent mutations [START_REF] Greene | Spectrum of Chemically Induced Mutations From a Large-Scale Reverse-Genetic Screen in Arabidopsis[END_REF].

Practically, the population of original M0 seeds is bathed in a solution containing EMS, and the resulting M1 seeds are sown and grown in order to get homozygous mutations in the M2 next generation. M2 seeds or plants are then phenotypically screened and candidates isolated.

The historical procedure for the identification of the mutated gene that produces the phenotype of interest (causal mutation) involves several experimental steps, and is known as map-based cloning or positional cloning [START_REF] Jander | Arabidopsis Map-Based Cloning in the Post-Genome Era[END_REF]. Map-based cloning consists of crossing the M2 mutagenized plants with a divergent line (outcrossing), and use the F2 generation for mapping the homozygous locus by using molecular markers, thereafter, phenotypic analysis in the F3 generation allows the confirmation of the possible candidates, and the sequencing of the gene (Figure II.3.1) [START_REF] Arondel | Map-based cloning of a gene controlling omega-3 fatty acid desaturation in Arabidopsis[END_REF][START_REF] Giraudat | Isolation of the Arabidopsis ABI3 Gene by Positional Cloning[END_REF][START_REF] Jander | Arabidopsis Map-Based Cloning in the Post-Genome Era[END_REF]. However, due to the advances in sequencing technologies that decreased the costs and time for genome sequencing, the development of many bioinformatic, and genomic tools have demonstrated to be useful in the identification of the causal mutation in forward genetics [START_REF] Schneeberger | Using next-generation sequencing to isolate mutant genes from forward genetic screens[END_REF][START_REF] Candela | Getting started in mapping-bysequencing[END_REF]. Thereafter, a new mapping in the F2 plants it is necessary for narrow the location of the causal mutation, and finally, the phenotypic analysis in the F3 progeny, and the sequencing of the DNA are necessary for the final identification of the gen responsible of the phenotype. The whole process without interruption or technical problems takes around 1 year. Scheme adapted from [START_REF] Jander | Arabidopsis Map-Based Cloning in the Post-Genome Era[END_REF] 1 5 6 SHOREmap, Genome Analysis Toolkit (GATK), Samtools, and Next Generation Mapping (NGM), are some of the pipelines based on Next-Generation Sequencing (NGS) technologies, that have been developed for the identification of the causal mutation, which is sometimes referred as mapping-by-sequencing [START_REF] Schneeberger | SHOREmap: simultaneous mapping and mutation identification by deep sequencing[END_REF][START_REF] Austin | Next-generation mapping of Arabidopsis genes[END_REF][START_REF] James | User guide for mapping-by-sequencing in Arabidopsis[END_REF][START_REF] Allen | Facile mutant identification via a single parental backcross method and application of whole genome sequencing based mapping pipelines[END_REF]. SHOREmap, GATK, and Samtools are pipelines that are used to calculate the allele frequency of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) that are present in a pool of plants selected to harbor the phenotype of interest in the recombinant F2 generation, while NGS is able to identify the causal mutation based on the discordant chastity, which is an allelic frequency corrected for sequencing errors [START_REF] Allen | Facile mutant identification via a single parental backcross method and application of whole genome sequencing based mapping pipelines[END_REF]. Previous work has shown that all those pipelines are powerful tools to identify causal mutations in forward genetic screens, although minor differences exist (Figure II.3.2) [START_REF] Allen | Facile mutant identification via a single parental backcross method and application of whole genome sequencing based mapping pipelines[END_REF].

We have previously discussed the important roles of glutaredoxins during primary root growth, and lateral root formation. In order to identify GRXS17-dependent pathways involved in the control or root development, a genetic screen for suppressor mutations was done and several interesting candidates were isolated (see previous chapter). In addition, the mutagenized M2 population was used to look for grxs17 suppression of other developmental phenotypes. Because of the advantages that have been shown for the use of NGS in the identification of the causal mutation, we decided to use this strategy to identify the causal mutations in the best suppressor mutants we selected. All the candidates had been isolated and all mapping populations had been generated when I arrived for my PhD.

I therefore prepared all DNA extractions of these populations and sent for sequencing, before analyzing the obtained sequences. This chapter is mainly dedicated to present you my bioinformatic analyses. 1 5

II.3.2 RESULTS

II.3.2.1 Suppressor lines of the grxs17 mutant

Although candidates were selected before I joined the lab, I will recapitulate in this section the different mutants we are interested in.

For the initial screening of suppressors of grxs17 root phenotypes, about 400 M2 Indeed, 22E1, 28A2, and 28H1 only suppress the impairment in the primary root elongation, while 33G2 only complement the lateral root primordia phenotype (Table II.3.1). The other eight lines can suppress both root phenotypes of the grxs17 mutant.

Among them, 41C3 line was the strongest suppressor mutant in both primary root elongation, and lateral root primordia phenotypes (Table II.3.1).

In addition to the defects in the root system (Figure II.3.3), the grxs17 mutant also shows a delay in the development of the leaves (Figure II.3.4) (Knuesting et al., 2015).

This delay is much more pronounced when plants are grown under long day (16h light/8h dark) and high light (500 µmol photons m -2 s -1 ) conditions. At a later developmental stage, In order to prepare the mapping-by-sequencing population, we followed the Row reads were mapped against the TAIR10 reference genome using bowtie2 pipeline, which produced a good coverage depth value for each of the samples (Table II.3.2). First, we analyzed both grxs17 alleles in Col-0 and Ler ecotypes. We could confirm that both mutants harbor a single T-DNA insertion at the At4g04950 locus, corresponding to GRXS17. In addition to the insertion in GRXS17, the grxs17 mutant in Col-0 displays

II.3.2.3

Identification of the causal mutation using Samtools/SnpEff and R.

The methodology adopted to detect the causal mutation is illustrated in figure II.3.10.

The identification of the SNPs was performed with Samtools, and the annotation of the variants was accessed by using the SnpEff command line. Thereafter, I calculated the allele frequency as the number of reads that support the SNP, divided by the total reads that were mapped at that position. The next step was the subtraction of the SNPs that belong to both parental grxs17 lines. In the case of the backcross strategy I only removed the SNPs from grxs17 in the Col-0 background. Finally, I only retained the EMS-SNPs that produced a transition from G-C to A-T pairs [START_REF] Greene | Spectrum of Chemically Induced Mutations From a Large-Scale Reverse-Genetic Screen in Arabidopsis[END_REF].

The advantage of using SnpEff pipeline for the annotation of the vcf files is that it also adds the level of impact that the SNP might have on the gene product. This 4 levels classification (high, moderate, low, and modifier) is useful to identify possible candidates of the suppressor lines (Table II.3.3). It is likely that the causal mutation will produce a high or moderate impact in the gene product (Table II .3.3). For this reason, the identification of the causal mutation was addressed by considering the level of impact of the SNP, the allele frequency, and the distribution of the EMS-SNP across the chromosome. In order to validate my method, I run the analysis using a published causal mutation [START_REF] Sun | SHOREmap v3.0: Fast and accurate identification of causal mutations from forward genetic screens[END_REF]. and I compared the data with SHOREmap, which also uses allele frequency (Figure II.3.11). Using the same data I was able to detect the causal mutation using my pipeline based in samtools and SnpEff. It is important to note that the area in which the causal mutation is located (Figure II.3.11,blue arrow) was devoid of SNPs in the Ler background. Conversely, there is an increase in the frequency of SNPs in this region (Figure II.3.11).

Analysis of the allele distribution of the 15 samples shows in some cases similar profiles as those presented with the SHOREmap pipeline (data not shown). Indeed, 12F3

presents a particular increase in the allele frequency of several SNPs on the lower arm of chromosome 2, that was also indicated by the NGM pipeline (Figure II.3.12). However, there is no homozygous EMS-mutation located in chromosome 2. M2 seedlings growth at 10 days under long day/high light conditions (16 hours under 500 µmol photons m -2 s -1 ). The red circle represents a selected suppressor candidate.

The absence of homozygous SNPs in most of the samples, and the lack of areas with low Ler-SNPs frequency, led me envisage that there could be a contamination in the F2 population that was sequenced. This could explain why I am not able to find homozygous candidates in my analysis. For this reason, I decided to use another approach to find putative candidates for the causal mutation.

The methodology consisted first in removing the SNPs that were common to the 15 suppressors. As EMS generated independent mutations in each M1, it is unlikely that the causal mutation will be in the same position even if it affects the same gene for several suppressor lines [START_REF] Addo-Quaye | Forward Genetics by Sequencing EMS Variation-Induced Inbred Lines[END_REF]. Moreover, since it is possible that the pools of

II.3.3 DISCUSSION

As it was described in chapter II, disruption of the gene that encodes to the glutaredoxin GRXS17 reduces the growth of the primary root elongation, and impairs the formation of lateral root primordia. In order to study the pathways in which GRXS17 is involved, our group isolated several suppressor lines that can revert either the primary root or/and the lateral root primordia phenotype. Moreover, in collaboration with Dr. Pascal REY, we identified additional suppressor lines that are able to revert the shoot developmental phenotype of grxs17. Altogether, this set of suppressor mutants constitute a key toolbox to study the roles of the glutaredoxins GRXS17 during plant development (Figure II.3.22).

The positive analysis of some of the suppressor lines described in this chapter was achieved by the implementation of homemade command lines, that are based principally in Samtools, SnpEff, and R. This is due to the failure of both NGM and SHOREmap to detect candidates in practically the whole set of suppressor lines. However, the identification of possible candidates with my homemade pipeline depends to a large extent on the subtraction of the EMS-derived SNPs that are common to the 15 samples, considering only SNPs that produced a high impact in the gene product, and by considering candidates within the range of 0.8 to 1.0 in the frequency scale. For this empirical measure, I considered the possibility of having contaminant or heterozygous plants in the pools of F2 that were sent for sequencing. This would decrease the homozygosity of the causal mutation, making difficult its identification by the NGM and SHOREmap platforms, that are based on the homozygosity of the candidates.

This possible contamination of the mapping population by non-suppressor plants illustrates the difficulty to conduct a quantitative screen based on root length. However, we have to notice that we got exactly the same problems using a separate screen on shoot development, in another lab, and using another strategy to establish the mapping population (backcross instead of outcross). This might illustrate problems in the mutagenized population. However, we used a very standard protocol for EMS mutagenesis and the rate of usual marker phenotypes (such as white sectors), was apparently normal in the growing M1 population. Another hypothesis would be that grxs17 mutation itself,

affecting a yet unidentified function, affects the feasibility of the screen. Using the pipeline I developed, I was able to obtain several candidates in the suppressor lines (Table II.3.4). However, considering the allele frequency distribution , samples 12F3, 41C3, 33G2, and 23G2 showed the most promising results. Those lines are characterized by their capacity to revert the root phenotypes of grxs17. 41C3 and 12F3 suppress the negative effect that grxs17 show in the primary root elongation growth, and the lateral root primordia formation, while 33G2 is only able to complement the lateral root primordia phenotype. 23G2 is another suppressor line that is capable to restore the normal shoot development that is compromised in the grxs17 mutant.

The bioinformatic analysis of the genomic data for the suppressors described above, produced several candidates that are located in different chromosomes, in which there is an increase in the frequency of the EMS-derived SNPs. 41C3, the strongest suppressor line for the root phenotype, displays three candidate loci localized in chromosome 4. These consist in two missense and one nonsense mutations, in the genes encoding CRK8, a tripeptidyl peptidase enzyme, and an ATP-dependent DNA helicase respectively.

Intriguingly, the only homozygous candidate identified among the suppressor lines with an allelic frequency equal to 1.0 is CRK8. The SNP identified in CRK8 produces a missense mutation, resulting in the change of the polar Threonine amino acid into the non-polar Isoleucine in the position 469. CRK8 belongs to the family of cysteine-rich RECEPTORlike kinases, that are characterized by harboring four conserved cysteines in their amino acid structure, and to be involved in defense response against biotic stress. However, specific functions of CRK8 is still not known [START_REF] Acharya | Overexpression of CRK13, an Arabidopsis cysteine-rich receptor-like kinase, results in enhanced resistance to Pseudomonas syringae[END_REF][START_REF] Wrzaczek | Transcriptional regulation of the CRK/DUF26 group of Receptor-like protein kinases by ozone and plant hormones in Arabidopsis[END_REF][START_REF] Idänheimo | The Arabidopsis thaliana cysteine-rich receptor-like kinases CRK6 and CRK7 protect against apoplastic oxidative stress[END_REF].

In the case of 12F3, there were four missense candidates that are located in chromosome two in the genes At2g39980, At2g28850, At2g27050, and At2g28850.

Interestingly, 12F3 was the only suppressor line showing a positive result in the NGM pipeline. At2g27050, that encodes ETHYLENE-INSENSITIVE3-like 1 (EIL-1), is a candidate gene identified via both pipelines. EIL-1 is a transcription factor that is involved in ethylene signaling, and we know that ethylene plays important functions during root development [START_REF] Binder | Rapid kinetic analysis of ethylene growth responses in seedlings: New insights into ethylene signal transduction[END_REF][START_REF] Nziengui | Root gravitropism is regulated by a crosstalk between paraaminobenzoic acid, ethylene, and auxin[END_REF]. 33G2 suppressor line that only restores the normal lateral root primordia development, displays one candidate in a gene that encodes a hypothetical protein that is located in chromosome 5. The analysis of 23G2 that complements the shoot phenotype in the grxs17 mutant shows a nonsense mutation in the gene HAIRY MERISTEM 1 (HAM1), that encodes a member of the GRAS family transcription factors. Interestingly, it has been shown that HAM1 interacts with the homeodomain transcription factor WUS to activated the expression of CLV3 to control the shoot stem development. HAM1 is therefore a good candidate to harbor the causal mutation of the reversion phenotype observed in the 23G2 line [START_REF] Zhou | Control of plant stem cell function by conserved interacting transcriptional regulators[END_REF][START_REF] Zhou | HAIRY MERISTEM with WUSCHEL confines CLAVATA3 expression to the outer apical meristem layers[END_REF].

Further studies have to be addressed to validate the candidates of the suppressor lines 41C3, 12F3, 33G2, and 23G2. In this regard, T-DNA SALK lines of those candidates were ordered. We will first examine the primary root elongation rate and lateral root primordium formation, or shoot development in high light, in such insertion lines. In parallel, RT-PCR will allow us to validate these insertion lines as knocked down or knocked out for the corresponding gene. Finally, another validation step of these candidates will consist in crossing the T-DNA insertion lines with grxs17 mutants to try to phenocopy the suppression observed in the corresponding EMS mutant line.

In conclusion, in this study, I showed the utility of my methodology based on Samtools, SnpEff, and R, in order to identify candidates for the causal mutation in our suppressor lines of the grxs17 mutant. Genetic and phenotypic analyses of mutants for each of the candidates have to be done in order to definitely validate the methodology and the causal mutations. This would offer the lab novel perspectives in understanding the important role of GRXS17 in regulating plant development. Output of the analysis with the discordant chastity method for chromosome 2, that narrow the area in which the causal mutation might be located. The representation of the strategy to localize the causal mutation is based on the SNP detection by Samtools and the subsequent annotation of SnpEff pipeline. Thereafter, the allele frequency is calculated using the platform R. In order to narrow the possible candidates, SNPs that belong to the parent lines or that are not induced by EMS were filtered. The candidates are selected by the annotation class from the SnpEff, the allele frequency (homozygous = 1), and the distribution of the AF of SNP markers that are linked to the causal mutation.

Table II.3.3. SnpEff SNP classification. The annotation of the SNP in the vcf file contained also a distinction level, which depends on the impact that the SNP might produce in the gene product.

Impact Meaning Example

HIGH

There is high probability that the SNP would affect the gene product.

Stop_gained

MODERATE It might alter the gene product. Missense variants LOW

There is a low probability that the SNP would alter the gene product.

Synonymous variants MODIFIER

SNPs presented in non-coding sequences.

Intergenic regions Yellow boxes represent the lines that only complement the shoot phenotype, green box indicated the line that suppresses only the lateral root primordia impairment, blue boxes complement exclusive the primary root phenotype, and the black boxes indicated the lines that complement both primary root and lateral root phenotype of the mutant grxs17.

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III GENERAL DISCUSSION

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III.1

Glutathione as a mediator of root development

III.1.1 IBA control by glutathione

As it was demonstrated by genetic and molecular analyses presented in this work, glutathione is critical for root development in processes involving plant hormone signaling, as well as during abiotic stress conditions (Figure III.1). Indeed, by genetic and molecular analysis we demonstrated that glutathione is able to affect the IBA responses in lateral root and root hair. The situation looks different in the primary root. First, we showed that similarly to IAA, exogenous IBA application inhibits primary root growth, very likely due to IBA to IAA conversion and perception by the TIR1/AFB-auxin-Aux/IAA co-receptor complex. We also show that in the contrary to LR and RH, glutathione deficiency does not interfere with the IBA (and IAA)-dependent primary root growth inhibition. This might be due to the robustness of the auxin-dependent cell growth inhibition mechanism involving rapid and reversible root growth inhibition by the TIR auxin signaling pathway [START_REF] Fendrych | Rapid and reversible root growth inhibition by TIR1 auxin signalling[END_REF]. Similarly, we have previously shown that the primary root growth response to IAA was not affected in glutathione deficient mutants (Bashandy et al., 2010). However, it is also likely that other thiol reduction pathways are able to compensate the glutathione deficiency on auxin response in primary root growth, as shown previously for the thioredoxin system (Bashandy et al., 2010). In another hand, the role of glutathione in primary root is well documented, particularly in the root apical meristem (RAM).

Depletion of glutathione in the hypomorphic allele of GSH1 rml1 produced a strong defect in the primary root growth, due to a profoundly affected RAM. Still, the glutathione depletion in this mutant is much more pronounced than in our studies. To further explore the interaction between glutathione and IBA pathways in the primary root, it will be interesting to address the question in more affected glutathione deficiency conditions (e.g.

zir1 mutant) or in mutants affected in complementary thiol reduction systems (e.g. ntra ntrb cad2 mutant, Bashandy et al., 2010). This scheme aims to summarize the results presented in this manuscript. GSH = glutathione, IBA = Indole-3-butyric acid.

It is also possible that glutathione specifically interferes with IBA pathways responsible for the regulation of LR and root hairs. Control of lateral root development and root hairs by glutathione have been demonstrated in the past. A strong reduction of glutathione by high levels of BSO decreased the length of the root hairs and lateral roots numbers [START_REF] Sanchez-Fernandez | Cell proliferation and hair tip growth in the Arabidopsis root are under mechanistically different forms of redox control[END_REF]Marquez-Garcia et al., 2014). This was also observed in my studies in which high levels of BSO treatments decreased the root hairs and lateral roots (data not shown). However, it is unknown if this particular phenotype is related to auxin signaling dependent on IBA. ROS accumulation has been demonstrated to take place in the tip of the root hairs as well as within the lateral roots, which is critical for the development of both lateral roots and root hairs (Carol and Dolan, 2006;Manzano et al., 2014;Orman-Ligeza et al., 2016;Mangano et al., 2018). Since glutathione is involved in ROS homeostasis through the Ascorbate/Glutathione cycle and the reduction of GRX/PRX pathways, glutathione deficiency might alter LR and RH growth in a ROSdependent way (Manzano et al., 2014;[START_REF] Mangano | Molecular link between auxin and ROS-mediated polar growth[END_REF]Noctor et al., 2018).

Intriguingly, only plants with low reduce glutathione show impaired in the response to exogenous IBA, suggesting that GSH instead of GSSG is critical for the IBA response in the root architecture.

A link between glutathione and auxin has been proposed before, in which depletion of glutathione decreased the polar auxin transport and signaling (Bashandy et al., 2010;Koprivova et al., 2010;[START_REF] Mhamdi | Reactive oxygen species in plant development[END_REF]. However, I showed that impairment in the biosynthesis of glutathione did not affect the responses to exogenous IAA, suggesting a specific role of glutathione in the IBA pathway. Nevertheless, as IAA can diffuse into cells, we cannot discard the possibility that glutathione controls downstream events of the IAA pathway, such as auxin transport mediated by polar carriers.

Indeed, it has been described that low glutathione alters the auxin transport, and the expression of genes that encodes to PIN carriers. Still a redox regulation of PIN protein acyivity has not been clearly demonstrated (Bashandy et al., 2010;Koprivova et al., 2010).

PIN2, through its importance for the acropetal distribution of auxin from the lateral root cap is of high interest (Bashandy et al., 2010;Koprivova et al., 2010). My experiments using inhibitors of the auxin transport (NPA and NOA as inhibitors of auxin efflux and influx, respectively) argue against a redox control of PIN and AUX/LAX proteins by glutathione [START_REF] Parry | Novel auxin transport inhibitors phenocopy the auxin influx carrier mutation aux1[END_REF]Kim et al., 2010;[START_REF] Kubeš | The Arabidopsis concentration-dependent influx/efflux transporter ABCB4 regulates cellular auxin levels in the root epidermis[END_REF]. Moreover, depletion of glutathione by genetic and pharmacological approaches did not produce impairment in the gravitropic phenotype as it is observed in pin2, pin1, aux1 mutants, and with auxin inhibitors (data not shown) [START_REF] Swarup | Localization of the auxin permease AUX1 suggests two functionally distinct hormone transport pathways operate in the Arabidopsis root apex[END_REF][START_REF] Blilou | The PIN auxin efflux facilitator network controls growth and patterning in Arabidopsis roots[END_REF].

The control of IBA by glutathione seems to be particularly important in the basal meristem, in which the auxin signaling derived from the root cap is acting in the formation of new post-embryonic organs such as lateral roots (De Rybel et al., 2012;[START_REF] Audenaert | Root Cap-Derived Auxin Pre-patterns the Longitudinal Axis of the Arabidopsis Root[END_REF]. Indeed, depletion of glutathione by BSO perturbes the auxin distribution, which I monitored with DR5-GUS after 24 hours treatment with IBA. Intriguingly, if the active IAA transport is not involved in the control of IBA, why is the DR5-GUS signal impaired in the basal meristem? This question is very important since no conversion in the basal meristem have been reported yet (Frick and Strader, 2018). For this reason, further experiments have to be performed in order to unravel the nature of the auxin signaling derived from IBA in the basal meristem. This could be done by pre-treating DR5-GUS lines with different concentration of NPA and visualizing the auxin signaling distribution after incubating them with IBA. Moreover, localization of IBA conversion enzymes in the basal meristem could give stronger evidence of the IBA conversion in this tissue. Indeed, visualization of the expression profile of genes that have been proposed to be specifically involved in the IBA conversion to IAA, such as IBR10 shown a strong expression in the basal meristem (Figure III.2). If IBA conversion would occur in the root cap, it will help to find the targets that we were not able to identify in this study.

Our discovery that glutathione is controlling the IBA pathway in lateral root development and root hair growth is important in order to understand how IBA conversion to IAA is controlled at the molecular level. Such a yet almost unexplored topic could also open a new window to investigate which other auxin functions are redox regulated (e.g. by glutathione). In this regard, phenotypic characterization of other physiological processes in which IBA have been related such as in the hypocotyl growth, and cell expansion have to be done to address this question (Strader et al., 2011;Frick and Strader, 2018).

Interestingly, before I arrived, the glutathione-dependent IBA response was first studied in hypocotyl elongation. IBA-increased hypocotyl length was almost abolished in cad2 mutant or in response to BSO. However, this phenotype was highly dependent on light intensity, suggesting even more complex regulation than the one shown in this work for LR and RH responses. This suggests that glutathione could regulate IBA pathways in the whole plant, although this control could be integrated in more integrated regulation processes according to the tissue. LR and RH responses are very robust and reproducible and can therefore be used to unravel the mechanism used by glutathione to control IBA pathways.

III.1.2 IBA and glutathione involved in abiotic stress response

The impairment of root hair elongation of the mutants cad2 and ibr1ibr3ibr10 in response to phosphate deprivation give strong evidence for the role of IBA and glutathione on an important developmental adaptation to P carency (Figure III.1). The critical role that auxin plays in promoting root hair growth in response to low external P has been recently documented [START_REF] Bhosale | A mechanistic framework for auxin dependent Arabidopsis root hair elongation to low external phosphate[END_REF]. Here, auxin synthesis, transport and response pathway components are involved. Therefore, my data suggesting that IBA conversion is implicated in root hair elongation upon P deprivation opens new perspective in this emerging field.

Does IBA act in parallel to IAA in this pathway? Where is IBA conversion occurring? Is IBA-associated auxin signaling and transport involved under P deprivation?

It is still not clear yet if the IBA functions in response to phosphorous deprivation is depending on glutathione. The full insensitivity of the ibr1ibr3ibr10 mutant to phosphorous deprivation make it difficult to challenge under glutathione deprivation (e.g.

BSO treatment or cross between cad2 and ibr1ibr3ibr10 mutant). However, the P deprivation-dependent root hair phenotype could be explored in other IBA metabolism/conversion mutants in combination with glutathione deficiency. It would also be interesting to quantify the endogenous level of IBA and IAA in plants under phosphorous deprivation and in combination with BSO or mutants of the glutathione biosynthesis such as cad2 and pad2. As well, the discovery of the components involved in the control of IBA by glutathione such as direct targets will be critical to demonstrate a link between phosphorous deprivation and IBA modulation by glutathione. We can expect that an unknown target will be also impaired in the response to phosphorous deprivation.

The discovery of the roles of glutathione for the response in root hairs under phosphorous deficiency, represent a big step to understand how the plant perceives the lack of phosphate, which is still not well understood [START_REF] Ham | Insights into plant phosphate sensing and signaling[END_REF]. The scheme represents the averages of absolute values from the BAR expression browser for the gene that encodes to IBR10. LRP = Lateral root primordia.

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Moreover, this suggests that glutathione might be a part of a complex sensor mechanism to drive changes in the root system, depending on IBA and the nutrient status in the rhizosphere, and other abiotic stress conditions (Figure III.1). This would allow the plant to modify its root development in response to environmental stress based on glutathione activity (e.g. phosphorous deficiency).

The glutathione measurements I performed in cad2 and ibr1ibr3ibr10 mutant plants did not reveal very significant modifications of the reduced and oxidized glutathione levels under P deprivation, although we notice a tendency to have lower oxidation. However, these measurements were done in whole plantlets which might not reveal local changes in the root cap for example. Therefore, glutathione redox homeostasis should be rather monitored in plants under P deprivation using redox-sensitive GFP reporter lines such as roGFP2. On the other hand, the fact that genes involved in the IBA pathway are upregulated during abiotic stress conditions (Frick and Strader, 2018), makes interesting to see if other abiotic stresses are also dependent on IBA and glutathione, such as nitrogen deprivation and osmotic stress conditions, in which the genes that encode to IBR peroxisomal enzymes are up-regulated (Frick and Strader, 2018).

Overall, the discovery of the control of the auxin signaling through the modulation of IBA by glutathione presented in this manuscript, give more evidence for the important roles that glutathione perform in developmental pathways, and give more clues about the way glutathione modulates the auxin signaling process and its roles during abiotic stress conditions.

III.2 Roles of glutaredoxin in the root system

Besides the roles of glutathione in the control of the root development by modulating the functions of plant hormones to abiotic stress conditions, glutathione is also highly important for the activity of a group of thiol enzymes known as glutaredoxins (GRX). This family of enzymes is composed in Arabidopsis by 50 members that are classified into five groups according to their amino acid sequence and the identity of their active site (Meyer et al., 2012;Belin et al., 2015). Indeed, the large diversity of the members of the glutaredoxin family in plants compared to other organisms is intriguing. Studies of their respective expression profiles in terms of tissue specific expression and expression under various environmental stress conditions suggest that the members of these families are not redundant (Belin et al., 2015). Moreover, several functions of specific glutaredoxins have been documented in the literature, indicating that glutaredoxins regulate many developmental and stress response pathways (see introduction). However, their roles in the control of the root development are still poorly documented.

In this study, I demonstrated that specific glutaredoxins performed uncharacterized roles in the control of the root development, especially in lateral root primordia formation.

Indeed, in silico analysis showed that several members of the glutaredoxin family of enzymes are differentially expressed across the distinct stage of lateral root primordia formation (Chapter 2). However, phenotypic characterization of the root system in most of these grx mutants has not yet been performed. In this regard, we decided to study the functions of two glutaredoxins that are differentially expressed in lateral root primordia:

ROXY19 and GRXS17. ROXY19 is a CC-type glutaredoxin that has been shown to interact with transcription factors TGA during detoxification process, involving salicylic acid and jasmonate [START_REF] Ndamukong | SA-inducible Arabidopsis glutaredoxin interacts with TGA factors and suppresses JA-responsive PDF1.2 transcription[END_REF]Zander et al., 2012;Herrera-Vásquez et al., 2015;Huang et al., 2016). ROXY19 is one of the most expressed glutaredoxin during lateral root primordia formation. However, after studying the LRP development in the roxy19 mutant, we did not found any impairment in their LRP development formation.

Nevertheless, the mutant showed an increase in both lateral root number and elongation, suggesting a negative function of ROXY19 in the control of the lateral root growth.

Moreover, my genetic experiments showed that the induction of lateral roots by the plant hormone abscisic acid, a master regulator of plant responses during stress conditions [START_REF] Finkelstein | Abscisic Acid Signaling in Seeds and Seedlings[END_REF][START_REF] Nemhauser | Different Plant Hormones Regulate Similar Processes through Largely Nonoverlapping Transcriptional Responses[END_REF][START_REF] Xiong | Identification of Drought Tolerance Determinants by Genetic Analysis of Root Response to Drought Stress and Abscisic Acid[END_REF][START_REF] Danquah | The role of ABA and MAPK signaling pathways in plant abiotic stress responses[END_REF]Kim et al., 2016), seems to be dependent on ROXY19. For this reason and as it was mentioned in chapter 2, genetic studies with ABA mutants such as abcg25, abi1-1, abi1-3, abi2-3, abi3-1, and aba2-1, crossed with roxy19 will bring new insides about, the link between glutaredoxin ROXY19 and ABA signaling, in the control of the lateral root growth. Besides the lateral root primordia phenotype of the roxy19 mutant, primary root elongation is also impaired in the mutant roxy19, which is similar to the phenotype found in the mutant grxs17. A cross between roxy19 and grxs17 mutant could also inform us if these two different GRX are acting independently in primary root growth.

Indeed, beside the fact that both roxy19 and grxs17 seem to be involved in primary root development, ROXY19 and GRXS17 are very different GRX in regard to their protein organization and activities. In contrast to the monodomain ROXY19, GRXS17 is a multidomain protein harbouring a Fe-S cluster, involved in different developmental processes like meristem activities, and in abiotic stress responses like tolerance to temperature stress [START_REF] Cheng | RML1 and RML2, Arabidopsis Genes Required for Cell Proliferation at the Root Tip[END_REF]Couturier et al., 2014;Knuesting et al., 2015;Yu et al., 2017). In my work, I also demonstrated that grxs17 presents a delay in the emergence of the LRP, suggesting a new role of GRXS17 in the root system development.

The fact that the deglutathionylation activity of glutaredoxins is generally dependent on glutathione may suggest that the root development functions of ROXY19 and GRXS17 are glutathione-dependent. Accordingly, the primary root development of the grxs17 mutant is partially rescued by adding exogenous GSH in the growth medium (data not shown). However, ROXY19 and GRXS17 are atypical glutaredoxins for which a typical glutathione-dependent deglutathionylation activities has not been fully established (our unpublished data). Therefore, further studies have to be performed to establish the link between glutathione, ROXY19 and GRXS17 in root development phenotypes (Figure III.1).

III.3 Identification of the causal mutation in grxs17 suppressor lines

Identification of the possible pathways in which GRXS17 is involved to control plant development is an important aspect to understand the different roles that this glutaredoxin plays in plants. For this reason, the isolation of the suppressor mutants of the grxs17 phenotype represents an important tool to accomplish this goal. In this study, I performed several bioinformatic analyses in order to identify the causal mutation of the 15 suppressor lines of the grxs17 phenotype in both shoot and root. We were able to identify candidate SNPs in the lines 12F3 (primary root phenotype), 41C3 (both primary root and lateral root primordia phenotype), 33G2 (only lateral root phenotype), and 23G2 (shoot phenotype).

The most promising candidate SNPs are located in genes encoding ETHYLENE-INSENSITIVE3-like 1(EIL-1) for suppressor 12F3, CRK8 identified in 41C3 suppressor, the hypothetical protein of 33G2 line, and HAIRY MERISTEM 1 in the suppressor 23G2.

Validation of the causal mutations are required using phenotypic characterization and complementation assays. Mutant lines in the different genes of interest are now under characterization. It is important to bold that EIL-1 is involved in the root growth [START_REF] Nziengui | Root gravitropism is regulated by a crosstalk between paraaminobenzoic acid, ethylene, and auxin[END_REF], and HAM1 is critical for the shoot development [START_REF] Zhou | Control of plant stem cell function by conserved interacting transcriptional regulators[END_REF][START_REF] Zhou | HAIRY MERISTEM with WUSCHEL confines CLAVATA3 expression to the outer apical meristem layers[END_REF], which perfectly correlated with the phenotypes of the respective suppressor lines. If the complementation of grxs17 with the mutant lines is corroborated, further studies have to be done in order to elucidate the molecular mechanism by which GRXS17 interact with those genes. CRK8 is characterized by harboring four conserved cysteines in its sequences, which make him a good direct target of GRXS17 because of the possibility of interacting with CRK8 through the formation of thiol bonds. Since it is known that members of the CRK proteins have been involved in stress conditions, this will give evidence for the physiological meaning of the control of GRXS17 and CRK8 in the control of root system under biotic stress conditions [START_REF] Acharya | Overexpression of CRK13, an Arabidopsis cysteine-rich receptor-like kinase, results in enhanced resistance to Pseudomonas syringae[END_REF][START_REF] Wrzaczek | Transcriptional regulation of the CRK/DUF26 group of Receptor-like protein kinases by ozone and plant hormones in Arabidopsis[END_REF][START_REF] Idänheimo | The Arabidopsis thaliana cysteine-rich receptor-like kinases CRK6 and CRK7 protect against apoplastic oxidative stress[END_REF]. In silico analysis with the amino acid structure of EIL-1 and HAM1 need to be done in order to see if there are exposed cysteine residues that could be targets of GRXS17. However, it could be possible as well that they are downstream components in the control of GRXS17 in the root system.

III.4 Conclusions

In conclusion, the results showed in this Ph.D. work highlight the roles that glutathione and glutaredoxin play in the control of the root development, and during abiotic stress conditions. Moreover, the genetic and molecular experiments presented in this work revealed new functions for the three components studied in this thesis.

Glutathione as a mediator of the IBA pathway, roles of both glutathione and IBA in the response to phosphorous deprivation, and glutaredoxins functions in the control of the root development. Those three major discoveries made in this Ph.D. work will be important to unravel the functions of glutathione, IBA and glutaredoxins in the control of the root development.

IV.1 CHAPTER 1 Plant material and growth conditions

Wild-type plants and mutants used in this study were in the Arabidopsis thaliana ecotype Col-0. Mutants of the biosynthesis of glutathione: cad2-1, pad2-1, and zir1 are described on Howden et al., 1995[START_REF] Parisy | Identification of PAD2 as a γ-glutamylcysteine synthetase highlights the importance of glutathione in disease resistance of Arabidopsis[END_REF], and Shanmugam et al., 2012, respectively, while gr1 and ntrantrb mutants are described on Mhamdi et al., 2010, andBashandy et al., 2010, respectively. Mutant cat2-1 impaired in catalase is described in Bueso et al., 2007. The ibr3, ibr10, ech2, ibr1, and triple mutant ibr1ibr3ibr10 were donated by the group of Lucia Strader (Strader et al., 2011). Mutant pin2 (eir1-1) is described in Roman et al., 1995, Mutants aux1-21, pdr8 (Salk_000578), pdr9

Phenotypic analyses of the root system

Lateral root density was quantified 10 days after sowing by counting the number of visible lateral roots emerged divided by the length of the region in which the LR was counted. Lateral root primordia density was calculated 6 days after sowing, in the same 2 0 7 manner using a light microscope (Axioscop2, Zeiss). The study of the lateral root primordia development was performed by synchronization of the LRP initiation, that consisted of changing the orientation of the plates 90° and observing the stage of LRP after 48 hours. Root hair lengths were quantified 8 days after sowing, excepted of M.loti experiments (see plant material and growth conditions). Primary root elongation rate was quantified by calculating the difference in the length of the root from day 8 and day 10.

The analyses were made with ImageJ (https://imagej.nih.gov/ij/).

Glutathione measurements

Analysis of glutathione was performed using the enzymatic recycling methods, which is a modification of the classic Tietze recycling assay for total glutathione (Tietze, 1969;Rahman et al., 2007). The method consists in the reduction of GSSG by glutathione reductase enzyme and NADPH to GSH. Total GSH is determined by the oxidation of GSH by 5,5′-dithio-bis(2-nitrobenzoic acid) (DTNB), that produce a yellow compound 5′-thio-2nitrobenzoic acid (TNB) which is detectable at 412 nm (Rahman et al., 2007). Extraction of glutathione was performed on 8 days seedlings. In each experiment, we used three independent biological repetitions in which each biological repetition consisted of 20 plants.

Confocal analyses

Auxin response analyses using DR5v2 and the study of the redox state of glutathione with roGFP2 were performed by using a confocal laser scanning microscope Zeiss LSM 510 Meta (Carl Zeiss). Images were acquired in 16-bits with two average readings and using 10x lens. Confocal settings for DR5v2 were based on Liao et al., 2015. Settings and analyses for roGFP2 were based on the method published by Meyer et al., 2007, with small modifications. Excitation of roGFP2 was performed at 488 and 405 nm with a bandpass (BP) of 490-555 nm. Correction of the 405 nm for its background noise was performed by removing the fluorescence of the 405 nm collecting with a BP 420-480 nm.

For the analysis with DR5v2, sterilized seeds were placed vertically in square plates containing standard MS ½ medium with either BSO 0.5mM (BSO) or without BSO (Control). After 7 days of growth, seedlings were transferred to plates containing the following treatments: BSO = 0.5mM, IBA= 10µM, IAA=50nM, and combination of each auxin with BSO. After incubation with those treatments for 24 hours, pictures were taken in the confocal microscope.

Concerning the analyses with roGFP2, the reporter line was tested by performed a timeline experiment, that consisted in measuring the roGFP2 fluorescence during 10 minutes and then adding 1 mM of H 2 O 2 for 30 minutes. Thereafter, reduction of the roGFP2 line with 10 mM DTT was performed in order to verify the functionality of the reporter line. For testing the effect of auxin IBA on the glutathione redox status, seeds were placed vertically for 8 days in mediums MS ½, containing IBA 10µM or without IBA (Control). Pictures were analyzed using ImageJ following the protocol published by Meyer et al., 2007 andMorgan et al., 2011.

GUS staining

DR5-GUS activity was detected in root tissue from 8-days-old seedlings. The method is based on the work published by Jefferson et al., 1987, andMalamy andBenfey, 1997, with small modifications. Plants were fixed on acetone 80% (v/v) at 20 °C for 20 minutes, were washed with a buffer solution containing 25mM Na 2 HPO 4 , 25mM

NaH 2 PO 4 , 2% Triton (v/v), 1 mM K 3 Fe(CN) 6 , and 1 mM K 4 Fe(CN) 6 . Thereafter, seedlings were transferred to a new plate containing the buffer solution with 2mM of X-Gluc (5bromo-4-chloro-3-indolyl-β-D-glucuronidase) and vacuum infiltrated for 1 minute and then incubate at 37 °C for 1 hour. The reaction was stopped by bathing seedlings in ethanol 70% (v/v). Pictures were taken with a light microscope (Axioscop2, Zeiss) on the next day.

The experiment protocol was the same as in DR5v2 experiments.

Quantitative real-time PCR (qPCR)

For the quantification of the level of expression of gene of interest, total RNA was extracted using TriZol reagent (GE Healthcare, Littler Chalfont, Buckinghamshire, UK), and the RNA was purified with RNeasy Plant Mini Kit (Promega, USA). cDNA was synthesized by the GoScript™ Reverse Transcription System (Promega, USA).

Statistics analysis

All the experiments presented in this study were performed at least three independent biological repetitions. Each biological repetition from in vitro experiments consisted of two plates containing around 12 seeds for the mutant and the control in the same plate. Statistic analyses were performed with t-student test. Significant differences were considered when the p-value is ≤ to 0.01 (represented by one *) or ≤ 0.001 (represented with two **).

IV.2 CHAPTER 2

Plant material and growth conditions

The roxy19 (previously described in Huang et al., 2016) mutant carries a Ds element insertion 45bp before the Start codon and is derived from No-0 Arabidopsis thaliana ecotype. The transgenic line overexpressing ROXY19 in Col-0 ecotype (Huang et al., 2016) has been provided by Christiane Gatz. grxs17 SALK T-DNA insertion and Pro35S:GRXS17-GFP in grxs17 lines were previously described in Knuesting et al., 2015. ROXY19 and GRXS17 correspond to the AGI numbers At1g28480 and At4g04950, respectively. Arabidopsis surface-sterilized seeds were placed in a 0.5X Murashige and Skoog medium without sucrose with the addition of 0.8% of plant agar, and placed vertically, without stratification, in a growth chamber (22°C with a 16-h photoperiod and a photon flux of 160 μmol.m -2 .s -1 ). ABA treatments were performed after 5 days of growth on normal MS1/2 medium, by transferring seedlings via a nylon mesh to fresh medium, containing or not the indicated concentrations of ABA.

Phenotypic analyses of root system

For the study of the root system, images of the plates were taken with a canon camera (PowerShot A620

Isolation of suppressor mutants of the grxs17 phenotype

A population of 50,000 grxs17 seeds (M0) was chemically mutagenized using 0.3% ethyl methanesulfonate according to standard procedures [START_REF] Lightner | 14Seed Mutagenesis of Arabidopsis[END_REF]. The progeny of 40,000 mutagenized seeds (M1) was harvested in 384 pools, and 400 seeds from each pool were used to screen for mutant M2 plants displaying reversion of PR and LR grxs17 phenotypes. 90 putative candidates were grown and propagated, and the M3 progeny was screened for the same phenotypes in order to validate the reverted phenotype.

We selected the 12 best candidates that are presented in this manuscript.

Immunodetection of GRXS17

Total protein extraction was performed by grinding tissues in liquid nitrogen and detected by western blot using rabbit polyclonal antibodies against GRXS17 diluted to 1:25 000. Goat anti-rabbit antibodies conjugated to horseradish peroxidase (1:10 000) were used as secondary antibodies and revealed with enhanced chemiluminescence reagents (Immobilon Western Chemiluminescent HRP Sbstrate, Millipore).

IV.3 CHAPTER 3

Whole-genome sequencing DNA extraction from grxs17 suppressor mutants in both Col-0 and Ler background were performed using Qiagen DNeasy® Plant Mini kit. Samples were sequenced by Illumina platform (HudsonAlpha, USA) by the paired-ends method which produced reads with a length of 102 bases for outcross samples, while for backcross the sequencing results in reads with a length of 152 bases. The outputs of both classes of samples were produced on the Fastq format.

Bioinformatic analysis

Reads from Illumina sequencing were revised for quality with fastqc command line, and then, they were assembling using Bowtie 2, with the sensitive-local configuration option, and the reference genome TAIR10 (Table 4.1) (Langmead and Salzberg, 2012).

Samtools mpileup was performed in order to identify SNPs with the input options -A, and -B, which include all reads in the sorted .bam file for the identification of the SNPs (Li et al., 2009). Bcftools was used to convert the output file of samtools mpileup to .vcf format, and snpEff pipeline was used for the annotation and classification of the SNPs detected (Cingolani et al., 2012). Further calculation data such as allele frequency, comparison with parent lines, filtration of the EMS mutation, and charts were performed

INTRODUCTION

Oxygen is one of the most important molecules for aerobic organisms. It is necessary for cell metabolism, but it also generates reactive oxygen species (ROS) as by-products of oxidoreduction pathways. ROS include free radical species like superoxides (O •- 2 ), hydroxyl radicals (OH • ), or nitric oxide (NO • ), and non-radical species like hydrogen peroxide (H 2 O 2 ) and peroxynitrite (ONOO -) [START_REF] Sies | Oxidative stress[END_REF]. In plants, major sources of ROS are photosynthetic and respiratory chains in chloroplasts and mitochondria. ROS are also generated by plasma membrane NADPH oxidases and peroxisomal xanthine oxidases. Oxidative eustress is playing important signaling functions by inducing post-translational modifications (PTM) and by regulating protein redox state. ROS can also trigger oxidative distress which can damage the cell [START_REF] Foyer | Stress-triggered redox signalling: what's in pROSpect?[END_REF][START_REF] Choudhury | Reactive oxygen species, abiotic stress and stress combination[END_REF]. Plant cells display a large panel of ROS scavenging enzymes like catalases, peroxidases, and superoxide dismutases. They also generate compounds that reverse ROS-induced oxidations. Among these compounds are antioxidant molecules like glutathione and ascorbate, which both play important roles as cofactors for thiol reduction enzymes like peroxidases and reductases [START_REF] Noctor | ROS-related redox regulation and signaling in plants[END_REF][START_REF] Rahantaniaina | Cytosolic and chloroplastic DHARs cooperate in oxidative stress-driven activation of the salicylic acid pathway[END_REF]. Glutathione and ascorbate are themselves reduced by glutathione reductases (GRs) and dehydroascorbate reductases (DHARs). Thioredoxins (TRXs) and glutaredoxins (GRXs) are key thiol reduction enzymes. They act as reducing power of metabolic enzymes and ROS scavenging systems but they also regulate thiol-based posttranscriptional redox modifications in proteins (Meyer et al., 2012). Oxidized TRXs are generally reduced by NADPH-dependent thioredoxin reductases (NTRs), whereas the reduction of GRXs is dependent on glutathione. Due to their multifunctional thiol reduction capacities, TRXs and GRXs have been involved in many metabolic functions, controlling plant developmental programs and acting as key signaling molecules in response to abiotic and biotic stresses [START_REF] Meyer | Thioredoxins and glutaredoxins: unifying elements in redox biology[END_REF][START_REF] Rouhier | Involvement of thiol-based mechanisms in plant development[END_REF]. In this mini-review, we aim to give an updated overview of nuclear thiol-based ROS signaling in plants.

ROS AND Cys Ox-PTMs IN THE NUCLEUS

Some data suggest that ROS are actively generated in the nucleus [START_REF] Ashtamker | Diverse subcellular locations of cryptogein-induced reactive oxygen species production in tobacco Bright Yellow-2 cells[END_REF], but they principally accumulate in the nucleus through transfer from other cell compartments. Genetically encoded fluorescent H 2 O 2 sensors (e.g., HyPer) have consistently shown that cytosolic H 2 O 2 freely diffuses in the nucleus through nuclear pores (Møller et al., 2007;[START_REF] Rodrigues | Aquaporins facilitate hydrogen peroxide entry into guard cells to mediate ABA-and pathogen-triggered stomatal closure[END_REF]. It is also transferred from the chloroplasts to the nucleus under pathogen and high light (HL) conditions [START_REF] Caplan | Chloroplast stromules function during innate immunity[END_REF][START_REF] Exposito-Rodriguez | Photosynthesis-dependent H 2 O 2 transfer from chloroplasts to nuclei provides a high-light signalling mechanism[END_REF].

The chemical characteristics of the sulfur atom make Cys and Met residues major sites of oxidation within proteins [START_REF] Davies | The oxidative environment and protein damage[END_REF]. Depending on their pKa and on the pH of the medium, thiol residues are deprotonated into a thiolate residue (R-S -) which is prone to oxidation. This is leading to successive oxidations to sulfenic (R-SOH), sulfinic (R-SO 2 H), and sulfonic (R-SO 3 H) acids [START_REF] Davies | The oxidative environment and protein damage[END_REF]. Thiol groups can also form a disulfide bridge (S-S) or react with reactive nitrogen species (RNS) or oxidized glutathione (GSSG) resulting in S-nitrosylation (R-SNO) or S-glutathionylation (R-S-SG). Depending on their nature, most of these thiol modifications can be reversed by dedicated thiol reduction systems (TRX, GRX, and GSNO Reductase) which exhibit disulfide bond, deglutathionylation or denitrosylation activities (Figure 1). Thiol modifications can alter the structure and/or the activity of many proteins like transcription factors, MAP kinases, and chromatin modification proteins (see below). Proteomic approaches aiming to identify oxidized thiol targets have been developed in plants. Hundreds of nuclear candidate proteins were found sulfenylated, nitrosylated, or glutathionylated (Supplementary Table 1; [START_REF] Zaffagnini | Redox regulation in photosynthetic organisms: focus on glutathionylation[END_REF][START_REF] Zaffagnini | Protein S-nitrosylation in photosynthetic organisms: a comprehensive overview with future perspectives[END_REF][START_REF] Morisse | Insight into protein S-nitrosylation in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii[END_REF][START_REF] Waszczak | Sulfenome mining in Arabidopsis thaliana[END_REF][START_REF] Chaki | Identification of nuclear target proteins for S-nitrosylation in pathogen-treated Arabidopsis thaliana cell cultures[END_REF][START_REF] Pérez-Pérez | The deep thioredoxome in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii: new insights into redox regulation[END_REF]. These approaches also revealed the complexity of the thiol redox modification networks in plants [START_REF] Pérez-Pérez | The deep thioredoxome in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii: new insights into redox regulation[END_REF]. However, among all these candidates, redox regulation has been validated only in a few cases (see below).

THIOL REDOX SYSTEMS IN THE NUCLEUS Glutathione

Plants exhibit a large panel of thiol reduction systems (Meyer et al., 2012). Among them is glutathione, a low molecular weight thiol-containing tripeptide (γ-glutamyl-cysteinyl-glycine). Glutathione biosynthesis is performed in chloroplasts and in the cytosol but is found in almost all cell compartments, including the nucleus. Nuclear pores are generally assumed to allow unrestricted bidirectional diffusion of glutathione across the nuclear envelope. Therefore, nuclear glutathione translocation to the nucleus can be passive. Glutathione quantification at the subcellular level is technically challenging due to its highly dynamic compartmentation (Delorme-Hinoux et al., 2016). Thiol-specific dyes and genetically encoded probes such as reduction-oxidation-sensitive green fluorescent proteins (roGFPs) have consistently detected glutathione in the nucleus. Immunocytochemistry (ICC) coupled to electronic microscopy were also used to address its location at a subcompartment level (Zechmann et al., 2008;[START_REF] Zechmann | Subcellular compartmentation of glutathione in dicotyledonous plants[END_REF]. This study found glutathione uniformly spread in the nucleoplasm, without distinction between euchromatin and heterochromatin. In Arabidopsis thaliana, a glutathione reductase (GR1) is found in the nucleus, suggesting that oxidized glutathione (GSSG) is actively reduced in the nucleus (Delorme-Hinoux et al., 2016).

The functions of glutathione in the nucleus are still poorly understood. Thiol-labeling experiments using the 5chloromethylfluorescein diacetate (CMFDA) dye and glutathione redox state measured by roGFP, suggest that a redox cycle is occurring during the cell cycle progression and is critical for cell cycle progression [START_REF] Diaz Vivancos | A nuclear glutathione cycle within the cell cycle[END_REF]Vivancos et al., 2010;[START_REF] De Simone | Redox changes during the cell cycle in the embryonic root meristem of Arabidopsis thaliana[END_REF]. Consistently, sustained mild oxidation observed in ascorbate mutants also restricts nuclear functions and impairs progression through the cell cycle [START_REF] De Simone | Redox changes during the cell cycle in the embryonic root meristem of Arabidopsis thaliana[END_REF]. More than acting as a general redox buffer, glutathione could also provide reducing moiety for anti-oxidant enzymes like GRXs (i.e., GRXC1, GRXC2, GRXS17, GRXS13, and ROXY1/2/4) and Glutathione S-Transferases (i.e., GSTF5-10, GSTU19/20, and GSTT19/20), several of them having been identified in the nucleus [START_REF] Rouhier | Involvement of thiol-based mechanisms in plant development[END_REF][START_REF] Palm | Proteome distribution between nucleoplasm and nucleolus and its relation to ribosome biogenesis in Arabidopsis thaliana[END_REF].

Consistent levels of ascorbate have also been found in the nucleus but little evidence for its nuclear functions has been described [START_REF] Zechmann | Immunocytochemical determination of the subcellular distribution of ascorbate in plants[END_REF][START_REF] Considine | Redox regulation of plant development[END_REF][START_REF] De Simone | Redox changes during the cell cycle in the embryonic root meristem of Arabidopsis thaliana[END_REF][START_REF] Zechmann | Compartment-specific importance of ascorbate during environmental stress in plants[END_REF].

Thiols Reductases in the Nucleus

Thioredoxins (TRXs) and Glutaredoxins (GRXs) are major classes of thiols reductases. Plants harbor a complex TRX and GRX network (Meyer et al., 2012). Among the 40 TRXs and 50 GRXs isoforms were found in Arabidopsis, at least 4-8 of them have been assigned to the nucleus, although often in association with a cytosolic localization (Delorme-Hinoux et al., 2016). Moreover, NTR isoforms were also found in the nucleus, where they reduce TRXh, TRXo1, and Nucleoredoxin 1 (NRX1) (Serrato et al., 2001;Serrato and Cejudo, 2003;Marty et al., 2009;Marchal et al., 2014). Some thiol reductases are constitutively located in the nucleus, but others were found to shuttle between the cytosol and nucleus. In tomato subjected to heat stress, the predominant cytosolic GRXS17 was found to relocate in the nucleus [START_REF] Wu | Ectopic expression of Arabidopsis glutaredoxin AtGRXS17 enhances thermotolerance in tomato[END_REF]. In wheat and Chlamydomonas, TRXh isoforms accumulate in the nucleus upon oxidative or genotoxic stress (Serrato and Cejudo, 2003; Putative nuclear proteins prone to S-glutathionylated, S-nitrosylated, or disulfide bonds formation have been identified by proteomic and biochemical approaches (see Supplementary Table 1; Delorme-Hinoux et al., 2016;[START_REF] Pérez-Pérez | The deep thioredoxome in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii: new insights into redox regulation[END_REF]. S-glutathionylated, S-nitrosylated, or intra/intermolecular disulfide bonds can be reduced by NTR/TRX, GR/GSH/GRX, or GSNOR. NTR, NADPH-dependent thioredoxin reductase; TRX, thioredoxin; GR, glutathione reductase; GRX, glutaredoxin; PRX, peroxiredoxin; GSNOR, S-nitrosoglutathione reductase; GSH, glutathione; NO, nitric oxide; H 2 O 2 , hydrogen peroxide. Sarkar et al., 2005). Little is known about the subnuclear localization of these respective proteins. This is due to the low resolution of localization techniques like ICC and GFPfusion coupled with confocal microscopy analyses. In most cases, these proteins are detected in the nucleoplasm, without distinction between heterochromatin and euchromatin, and are apparently excluded from the nucleolus. Recently, ICC analyses have detected NRX1 and NTRA in the nucleolar cavity, but the functional significance of this localization is still unknown (Marchal et al., 2014). Major thiol redox components found in the nucleus are presented in Figure 2. ROS scavenging enzymes and thiol-containing target proteins are shown as well. Most of these components have been recently reviewed by Delorme-Hinoux et al. (2016) and will not be further discussed here.

The nucleolus, a nuclear subcompartment responsible for rRNA biosynthesis, might also be subjected to redox regulation [START_REF] Saez-Vasquez | The plant nucleolus[END_REF]. Significant accumulation of H 2 O 2 has been detected in the nucleolus in tobacco cell suspension subjected to elicitor treatments [START_REF] Ashtamker | Diverse subcellular locations of cryptogein-induced reactive oxygen species production in tobacco Bright Yellow-2 cells[END_REF]. Intriguingly, the nucleolus also accumulates high amounts of iron, which might provide substrates for ROS generation by Fenton reactions [START_REF] Roschzttardtz | Plant cell nucleolus as a hot spot for iron[END_REF]. In addition, FIGURE 2 | Major thiol redox components found in the nucleus. Thiol reduction systems, thiol-containing target proteins were represented as well as ROS scavenging enzymes. Proteins which were only found in proteomic data (according to [START_REF] Montrichard | Thioredoxin targets in plants: the first 30 years[END_REF][START_REF] Waszczak | Sulfenome mining in Arabidopsis thaliana[END_REF]Delorme-Hinoux et al., 2016;[START_REF] Palm | Proteome distribution between nucleoplasm and nucleolus and its relation to ribosome biogenesis in Arabidopsis thaliana[END_REF][START_REF] Montacié | Nucleolar proteome analysis and proteasomal activity assays reveal a link between nucleolus and 26S proteasome in A. thaliana[END_REF][START_REF] Pérez-Pérez | The deep thioredoxome in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii: new insights into redox regulation[END_REF] but not further validated in the nucleus were represented in italic. NTR, NADPH-dependent thioredoxin reductase; TRX, thioredoxin; GR, glutathione reductase; GRX, glutaredoxin; PRX, peroxiredoxin; PDI, protein disulfide isomerase; GST, glutathione S-transferase; APX, ascorbate peroxidase; DHAR, dehydroascorbate reductase; Ran-GTPase, Ran-guanosine triphosphatase; PCNA, proliferating cell nuclear antigen; GAPDH-C, glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate dehydrogenase-C; RTL1, RNAse III-like 1; TGA, TGA-transcription factor; NF-YC11, nuclear factor-YC11; GSH, glutathione; NO, nitric oxide; H 2 O 2 , hydrogen peroxide.

glutathione and several isoforms of PRXs, DHARs, APXs, TRXs, and GRX-like proteins were enriched in this compartment (Zechmann et al., 2008;[START_REF] Zechmann | Subcellular compartmentation of glutathione in dicotyledonous plants[END_REF][START_REF] Palm | Proteome distribution between nucleoplasm and nucleolus and its relation to ribosome biogenesis in Arabidopsis thaliana[END_REF][START_REF] Montacié | Nucleolar proteome analysis and proteasomal activity assays reveal a link between nucleolus and 26S proteasome in A. thaliana[END_REF]. Whether redox activities are occurring in the nucleolus will need further investigations.

REDOX-REGULATED NUCLEAR FUNCTIONS Transcriptomic Control by ROS

Reactive oxygen species causes drastic changes in nuclear gene expression [START_REF] Gadjev | Transcriptomic footprints disclose specificity of reactive oxygen species signaling in Arabidopsis[END_REF][START_REF] Willems | The ROS wheel: refining ROS transcriptional footprints[END_REF][START_REF] Shaikhali | Redox-regulated transcription in plants: emerging concepts[END_REF]. Oxidative stress affects many pathways involved in RNA processing, including splicing, polyadenylation, exporting, and editing. It is also involved in RNA degradation and protein translation [START_REF] Van Ruyskensvelde | Post-transcriptional regulation of the oxidative stress response in plants[END_REF]. Under High-light (HL) conditions, ROS originated in chloroplasts are associated with chloroplast-to-nucleus (retrograde) signaling.

Among the molecules involved in the retrograde signaling [START_REF] Suzuki | ROS and redox signalling in the response of plants to abiotic stress[END_REF][START_REF] Vogel | Fast retrograde signaling in response to high light involves metabolite export, MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE6, and AP2/ERF transcription factors in Arabidopsis[END_REF][START_REF] Dietz | Recent progress in understanding the role of reactive oxygen species in plant cell signaling[END_REF], singlet oxygen ( 1 O 2 ) induces expression of subsets of 1 O 2 -responsive genes and enhances tolerance to HL and to other abiotic and biotic stress (Wagner et al., 2004;[START_REF] Carmody | Uncoupling high light responses from singlet oxygen retrograde signaling and spatial-temporal systemic acquired acclimation[END_REF]. H 2 O 2 originating by dismutation of superoxide in the chloroplast has also been recently shown to be involved in retrograde signaling upon HL exposure [START_REF] Exposito-Rodriguez | Photosynthesis-dependent H 2 O 2 transfer from chloroplasts to nuclei provides a high-light signalling mechanism[END_REF]. Another retrograde signaling was suggested to involve a redox regulation of the chloroplastic cyclophilin Cyp20.3, leading to stimulation of Cys synthesis, accumulation of non-protein thiols and activation of defense gene expression [START_REF] Dominguez-Solis | A cyclophilin links redox and light signals to cysteine biosynthesis and stress responses in chloroplasts[END_REF][START_REF] Park | Cyclophilin 20-3 relays a 12-oxo-phytodienoic acid signal during stress responsive regulation of cellular redox homeostasis[END_REF]. Presumably, ROS generated in other cell compartments (mitochondria, peroxisomes, and apoplast) can also exert similar retrograde signaling [START_REF] Noctor | Intracellular redox compartmentation and ROS-related communication in regulation and signaling[END_REF][START_REF] Rodríguez-Serrano | Peroxisomes extend peroxules in a fast response to stress via a reactive oxygen species-mediated induction of the peroxin PEX11a[END_REF].

Photorespiration produces H 2 O 2 in peroxisomes. In this compartment, catalases play an important role in removing H 2 O 2 . The cat2 mutant inactivated in the major peroxisomal catalase accumulates a high level of peroxisomal H 2 O 2 and impacts nuclear gene expression extensively, rapidly inducing subsets of stress and hormonal response genes [START_REF] Queval | Conditional oxidative stress responses in the Arabidopsis photorespiratory mutant cat2 demonstrate that redox state is a key modulator of daylength-dependent gene expression, and define photoperiod as a crucial factor in the regulation of H 2 O 2 -induced cell death[END_REF]. In this case, regulation of gene expression involves glutathione signaling also, as the transcriptomic response is partly abolished in a glutathione-defective (cad2) cat2 cad2 double mutant (Han et al., 2013a,b). A signaling role of glutathione on nuclear gene expression was also suggested by transcriptomic data in genetically or pharmacologically manipulated glutathione backgrounds [START_REF] Xiang | Glutathione metabolic genes coordinately respond to heavy metals and jasmonic acid in Arabidopsis[END_REF]Ball et al., 2004;Schnaubelt et al., 2015). Other transcriptomic analyses also showed involvement of thiol reduction systems in modulating nuclear gene expression (Bashandy et al., 2009;Martins et al., unpublished data). Whether these actors are directly involved in gene expression needs further investigations.

Redox Regulation of Transcription Factors

A likely impact of ROS on nuclear gene expression relies on the regulation of redox-sensitive transcription factors [START_REF] Considine | Redox regulation of plant development[END_REF][START_REF] Dietz | Redox regulation of transcription factors in plant stress acclimation and development[END_REF][START_REF] Rouhier | Involvement of thiol-based mechanisms in plant development[END_REF][START_REF] Waszczak | Oxidative post-translational modifications of cysteine residues in plant signal transduction[END_REF]. In most cases, redox regulation induces conformation changes in transcription factors or associated proteins. Such modifications can occur in the cytosol and trigger nuclear translocation, e.g., by uncovering of a nuclear localization sequence (NLS). A well-documented example is the thiol redoxdependent nuclear translocation of the glycolytic enzyme Glucose 6-Phosphate Dehydrogenase C (GAPDH-C) which impacts both its metabolic activity and its moonlighting function as a transcriptional activator of glycolytic genes [START_REF] Holtgrefe | Regulation of plant cytosolic glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate dehydrogenase isoforms by thiol modifications[END_REF][START_REF] Vescovi | Nuclear accumulation of cytosolic glyceraldehyde-3phosphate dehydrogenase in cadmium-stressed Arabidopsis roots[END_REF]Zaffagnini et al., 2013;[START_REF] Testard | Calcium-and nitric oxide-dependent nuclear accumulation of cytosolic glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase in response to long chain bases in tobacco BY-2 cells[END_REF][START_REF] Zhang | Rice NAD + -dependent histone deacetylase OsSRT1 represses glycolysis and regulates the moonlighting function of GAPDH as a transcriptional activator of glycolytic genes[END_REF]. The HL-and H 2 O 2 -dependent nuclear translocation of Heat-Shock Factors (HSFA1D and HSFA8) is also dependent on specific Cys residues [START_REF] Miller | Could heat shock transcription factors function as hydrogen peroxide sensors in plants?[END_REF]Jung et al., 2013;[START_REF] Giesguth | Redox-dependent translocation of the heat shock transcription factor AtHSFA8 from the cytosol to the nucleus in Arabidopsis thaliana[END_REF][START_REF] Dickinson | Chloroplast signaling gates thermotolerance in Arabidopsis[END_REF]. The pathogen-induced Salicylic Acid (SA)-dependent transcriptional response is mediated by redox-dependent nuclear translocation of NON-EXPRESSOR OF PR GENES1 (NPR1). In this particular case, NPR1 is kept in the cytosol in a disulfidebound oligomeric homocomplex. Upon pathogen attack, SA induces TRXh5 expression which counteracts NPR1 oligomer formation by reducing NPR1 disulfides. Moreover, through its denitrosylase activity, TRXh5 also suppresses the stimulatory effect of Cys156 S-nitrosylation on formation of disulfide-linked NPR1 oligomer (Tada et al., 2008;Kneeshaw et al., 2014). NPR1 is translocated in the nucleus where it promotes PR gene expression through interaction with TGA transcription factors such as TGA1 [START_REF] Després | The Arabidopsis NPR1 disease resistance protein is a novel cofactor that confers redox regulation of DNA binding activity to the basic domain/leucine zipper transcription factor TGA1[END_REF][START_REF] Mou | Inducers of plant systemic acquired resistance regulate NPR1 function through redox changes[END_REF]Tada et al., 2008;Kneeshaw et al., 2014).

Indeed, other members of the TGA transcription factors are likely redox regulated in the nucleus. Among the 10 TGA factors found in Arabidopsis, several of them (i.e., TGA1, TGA2, TGA3, TGA7, and Perianthia) interact with type III GRXs (ROXY1 and 2) and are involved in the development of petals, anthers and microspores. Although the redox dependent control of these TGA is not fully established, ROXY/TGA interactions are occurring in the nucleus and affect TGA-regulated gene expression [START_REF] Xing | ROXY1, a member of the plant glutaredoxin family, is required for petal development in Arabidopsis thaliana[END_REF][START_REF] Xing | ROXY1 and ROXY2, two Arabidopsis glutaredoxin genes, are required for anther development[END_REF]Li et al., 2009Li et al., , 2011;;[START_REF] Murmu | Arabidopsis basic leucine-zipper transcription factors TGA9 and TGA10 interact with floral glutaredoxins ROXY1 and ROXY2 and are redundantly required for anther development[END_REF]reviewed by Dietz, 2014 andDelorme-Hinoux et al., 2016).

R2R3-type MYB transcription factors from maize require reducing conditions for DNA binding. Under non-reducing conditions, Cys49 and Cys53 form a disulfide bond that prevents the R2R3 MYB domain from binding DNA [START_REF] Williams | Differences between plant and animal Myb domains are fundamental for DNA binding activity, and chimeric Myb domains have novel DNA binding specificities[END_REF][START_REF] Heine | Two cysteines in plant R2R3 MYB domains participate in REDOX-dependent DNA binding[END_REF]. More recently, the structure and the DNA binding activity of a AtMYB30 transcription factor were shown to be influenced by S-nitrosylation [START_REF] Tavares | S-nitrosylation influences the structure and DNA binding activity of AtMYB30 transcription factor from Arabidopsis thaliana[END_REF].

AP2/ethylene response factor (ERF) is another class of transcription factors which undergoes redox regulation [START_REF] Welsch | Transcription factor RAP2.2 and its interacting partner SINAT2: stable elements in the carotenogenesis of Arabidopsis leaves[END_REF][START_REF] Shaikhali | The redox-sensitive transcription factor Rap2.4a controls nuclear expression of 2-Cys peroxiredoxin A and other chloroplast antioxidant enzymes[END_REF][START_REF] Vogel | Fast retrograde signaling in response to high light involves metabolite export, MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE6, and AP2/ERF transcription factors in Arabidopsis[END_REF]. One of the most striking examples was described for the Rap2.12-dependent regulation of hypoxia response genes. Under aerobic conditions, Rap2.12 is bound to the plasma membrane within an acyl-CoA binding protein 1 or 2 (ACBP1/2) complex. In low oxygen, Rap2.12 is released from the plasma membrane by a mechanism involving a N-terminal Cys2 residue, and is translocated to the nucleus where it activates hypoxia response genes [START_REF] Gibbs | Homeostatic response to hypoxia is regulated by the N-end rule pathway in plants[END_REF][START_REF] Licausi | Oxygen sensing in plants is mediated by an N-end rule pathway for protein destabilization[END_REF][START_REF] Licausi | Molecular elements of low-oxygen signaling in plants[END_REF]. [START_REF] Comelli | Conserved homeodomain cysteines confer redox sensitivity and influence the DNA binding properties of plant class III HD-Zip proteins[END_REF] also reported a redox regulation of conserved Cys in the homeodomain (HD) DNA of plant class III HD-Zip proteins. Here, DNA binding capacities are only maintained when an intramolecular disulfide bond is reduced by a thioredoxin [START_REF] Comelli | Conserved homeodomain cysteines confer redox sensitivity and influence the DNA binding properties of plant class III HD-Zip proteins[END_REF]. A Cys-dependent redox regulation of the DNA binding activity of basic region leucine zipper (bZIP) transcription factors has also been reported [START_REF] Shaikhali | Redox-mediated mechanisms regulate DNA binding activity of the G-group of basic region leucine zipper (bZIP) transcription factors in Arabidopsis[END_REF].

Finally, a subunit of the Nuclear Factor-Y (NF-Y) transcription factor complex (NY-YC11) physically interacts with the iron-sulfur cluster glutaredoxin GRXS17 in the nucleus. It is not known yet if this interaction is redox-dependent (Knuesting et al., 2015). In the cytosol and the nucleus, GRXS17 also interacts with and reduces BolA2, a factor involved in iron metabolism (Couturier et al., 2014;[START_REF] Qin | Cytosolic BolA plays a repressive role in the tolerance against excess iron and MV-induced oxidative stress in plants[END_REF].

Epigenetic Regulation

Redox regulation of epigenetic processes has mostly been addressed in mammals [START_REF] García-Giménez | Role of glutathione in the regulation of epigenetic mechanisms in disease[END_REF], but this field is poorly explored in plants (Delorme-Hinoux et al., 2016;[START_REF] Shen | Perspectives on the interactions between metabolism, redox, and epigenetics in plants[END_REF]. Nevertheless, due to the ubiquity of these basic mechanisms in living organisms, it is likely that such regulation occurs in plants as well. Different enzymes involved in histone methylation are prone to redox regulation, affecting both positive and negative histone marks (e.g., H3K4me2, H3K4me3, H3K79me3, H3K27me2, and H3K9me2) [START_REF] Chen | Nickel ions increase histone H3 lysine 9 dimethylation and induce transgene silencing[END_REF][START_REF] Zhou | Arsenite alters global histone H3 methylation[END_REF][START_REF] Zhou | Hypoxia induces trimethylated H3 lysine 4 by inhibition of JARID1A demethylase[END_REF][START_REF] Niu | Oxidative stress alters global histone modification and DNA methylation[END_REF]. In mammals, nuclear histone acetylation activities are redox sensitive, affecting chromatin conformation and transcription [START_REF] Ito | Oxidative stress reduces histone deacetylase 2 activity and enhances IL-8 gene expression: role of tyrosine nitration[END_REF][START_REF] José | A redox-dependent pathway for regulating class II HDACs and cardiac hypertrophy[END_REF][START_REF] Nott | S-Nitrosylation of histone deacetylase 2 induces chromatin remodelling in neurons[END_REF][START_REF] Doyle | Redox signaling, alkylation (carbonylation) of conserved cysteines inactivates class I histone deacetylases 1, 2, and 3 and antagonizes their transcriptional repressor function[END_REF]. During brain development, neurotrophic factors induce S-nitrosylation at conserved Cys of HDAC2 in neurons, resulting in changes of histone modification and gene expression [START_REF] Nott | S-Nitrosylation of histone deacetylase 2 induces chromatin remodelling in neurons[END_REF]. Upon cardiac hypertrophy, a ROS/TRX-dependent redox switch of key Cys residues affects nuclear trafficking of a class II HDAC and subsequent gene expression [START_REF] José | A redox-dependent pathway for regulating class II HDACs and cardiac hypertrophy[END_REF]. Within the large family of HDAC identified in plants [START_REF] Pandey | Analysis of histone acetyltransferase and histone deacetylase families of Arabidopsis thaliana suggests functional diversification of chromatin modification among multicellular eukaryotes[END_REF], members of the class I RPD-3 like HDAC (HDAC9, 19) have been shown to be sensitive to oxidation [START_REF] Liu | Proteomic identification of early salicylate-and flg22-responsive redox-sensitive proteins in Arabidopsis[END_REF][START_REF] Mengel | Nitric oxide modulates histone acetylation at stress genes by inhibition of histone deacetylases[END_REF], but the physiological significance of those modifications is still poorly understood. NO-induced HDAC inhibition is proposed to operate in plant stress response by facilitating the stress-induced transcription of genes [START_REF] Mengel | Nitric oxide modulates histone acetylation at stress genes by inhibition of histone deacetylases[END_REF].

In addition to methylation and acetylation, mammalian histone H3 has been shown to be glutathionylated on a conserved and unique Cys residue [START_REF] García-Giménez | Glutathione and cellular redox control in epigenetic regulation[END_REF]. Histone H3 glutathionylation increases during cell proliferation and decreases during aging. This produces structural changes affecting nucleosome stability and leading to a more open chromatin structure [START_REF] García-Giménez | Histone h3 glutathionylation in proliferating mammalian cells destabilizes nucleosomal structure[END_REF], 2014, 2017;[START_REF] Xu | Posttranslational modifications of human histone H3: an update[END_REF].

Small RNAs (siRNA and miRNA) are key regulators of gene expression, involved in most developmental and stress response processes in eukaryotic cells [START_REF] Leisegang | Redox regulation and noncoding RNAs[END_REF]. Biogenesis of small RNAs is orchestrated by DICER-LIKE (DCL) and RNASE THREE-LIKE (RTL) endonucleases that process almost every class of double-stranded RNA precursors. Charbonnel et al. (2017) have recently demonstrated that members of DCL and RTL families in Arabidopsis are glutathionylated on a conserved Cys which affects their RNase III activity. R-S-SG of RTL1 is reversed by type I GRXs, suggesting that small RNA biogenesis and subsequent gene expression responses are under the control of the cell redox environment (Charbonnel et al., 2017). Indeed, the RNase activity of another member of the family (RTL2) was previously shown to be regulated by its dimerization state through an intermolecular disulfide bond [START_REF] Comella | Characterization of a ribonuclease III-like protein required for cleavage of the pre-rRNA in the 3'ETS in Arabidopsis[END_REF], showing that a redox switch might regulate small RNA biogenesis.

Epigenetic regulation of gene expression is performed by DNA methylation. Some key metabolic enzymes involved in DNA methylation are suspected to be redox regulated. Among them are enzymes of the S-Adenosyl Methionine (SAM) cycle which provide precursors for DNA and histone methylation [START_REF] Shen | Perspectives on the interactions between metabolism, redox, and epigenetics in plants[END_REF]. Other nuclear candidates are the DNA demethylases Repressor of Silencing1 (ROS1) and Demeter-like (DME, DML2, and DML3) enzymes which remove methylated bases from the DNA backbone [START_REF] Zhu | Active DNA demethylation mediated by DNA glycosylases[END_REF]. All these enzymes contain an ironsulfur (Fe-S) cluster which might be susceptible to oxidation by ROS. Moreover, different members of the cytosolic Fe-S cluster assembly machinery (i.e., MET18 and AE7) are involved in DNA methylation, likely because they affect the nuclear DNA demethylases Fe-S cluster metabolism [START_REF] Luo | The DUF59 family gene AE7 acts in the cytosolic iron-sulfur cluster assembly pathway to maintain nuclear genome integrity in Arabidopsis[END_REF][START_REF] Duan | MET18 connects the cytosolic iron-sulfur cluster assembly pathway to active DNA demethylation in Arabidopsis[END_REF]. Therefore, all these examples show an emerging link between redox regulation and epigenetic regulation.

CONCLUSION AND PERSPECTIVES

Data supporting the role of redox regulation in nuclear functions are rapidly increasing. ROS are key actors of this regulation, influencing gene expression at multiple levels (transcription and post-transcription), notably by modulating activities of transcription regulators. While H 2 O 2 has been detected in the nucleus, little is known about ROS metabolism and dynamics in this cell compartment. The recent discovery of a H 2 O 2 flux from the chloroplast to the nucleus opens new perspectives to decipher the role of ROS in gene expression. In this way, the identification of a redox regulation of key transcriptional regulators (e.g., transcription factors, HDAC) will shed light on the ways ROS are acting on gene expression. Key for these questions are the proteomic approaches aiming to identify nuclear PTM occurring on redox-sensitive residues, and the structure biology techniques designed to visualize redox-based modifications on protein structure [START_REF] Waszczak | Sulfenome mining in Arabidopsis thaliana[END_REF][START_REF] Parker | cysTMTRAQ-An integrative method for unbiased thiol-based redox proteomics[END_REF][START_REF] Zaffagnini | Protein S-nitrosylation in photosynthetic organisms: a comprehensive overview with future perspectives[END_REF][START_REF] Pérez-Pérez | The deep thioredoxome in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii: new insights into redox regulation[END_REF]. While those redox proteome approaches have identified hundreds of nuclear proteins which could be prone to redox modifications, biochemical and functional evidence is missing to support the biological significance of these redox switches. This will be a major challenge for future research in redox biology.

Abstract Thioredoxins represent ubiquitous small proteins acting as redox regulators of diverse metabolic and developmental processes in almost all organisms. These proteins contain highly conserved cysteines in their redox-active sites, which enable the modification of target enzyme conformation and activity by reversible thioldisulfide exchanges. Since their discovery in plants around 40 years ago, the number of thioredoxin family members as well as the knowledge about their distinct functions are still increasing and under investigation. Originally, the first plant thioredoxin was found in chloroplasts, while further analyses demonstrated additional cytosolic, nuclear, mitochondrial, endomembrane, and non-photosynthetic plastid locations. This chapter provides an overview on the complexity of the thioredoxin family in higher plants and discusses its role in integrating metabolism, stress responses, development, and gene expression. This will help to understand why plants harbor the most versatile thioredoxin system among all organisms. Redox regulation plays a crucial role in a large number of plant cellular processes [START_REF] Geigenberger | Metabolic control of redox and redox control of metabolism in plants[END_REF]. Thioredoxins (TRX), small polypeptides of 12-13 kDa with protein disulfide reductase activity, catalyze Cys-based posttranslational modifications, which affect the conformation and function of a large number of proteins. Plants harbor a multiplicity of TRX isoforms and reduction pathways [START_REF] Lemaire | Thioredoxins in chloroplasts[END_REF]Meyer et al. 2012;Geigenberger et al. 2017). In Arabidopsis thaliana, the gene family of typical TRX encodes for up to 20 different isoforms located in different subcellular compartments. While the plastid uses ferredoxin (FDX) to reduce TRX via the FDX TRX reductase (FTR), extraplastidial TRX are reduced by NADPH-dependent TRX reductases (NTR). Plastids also contain an unusual NADPH-dependent TRX system termed NTRC, which is characterized by a tethered TRX domain, providing a complete NTR-TRX system in a single polypeptide. In the last years, progress has been made to improve our understanding of the organization and biological roles of this complex thiol-based redox network. The aim of this review is to provide a synthesis of these recent evolvements focusing on the emerging roles of TRX in regulating metabolism, stress responses, development, and gene expression of higher plants.

Abbreviations

2 The Plastidial Thioredoxin Systems 2.1 Ferredoxin Thioredoxin Reductase-Dependent Thioredoxin System

Plastids Contain the Most Diverse TRX System of Higher Plant Cells

About half of the total TRX isoforms in Arabidopsis cells are localized in the stroma of plastids (Meyer et al. 2012;Geigenberger et al. 2017). Typical TRX consist of a small single TRX domain carrying a highly conserved motif (WCGPC) in the redoxactive site, which modulates the redox state of target enzymes by the reversible exchange of an oxidized disulfide bridge to two reduced thiols. The ten typical TRX isoforms localized in plastids are divided into five types, namely f (1-2), m (1-4), x, y (1-2), and z. Interestingly, the two TRX isoforms f1 and f2 contain an additional conserved Cys and are suggested to be of eukaryotic origin based on their high homology with cytosolic TRX, while all other plastidial TRX are considered to have prokaryotic ancestors [START_REF] Sahrawy | Intron position as an evolutionary marker of thioredoxins and thioredoxin domains[END_REF][START_REF] Schürmann | The ferredoxin/thioredoxin system of oxygenic photosynthesis[END_REF]. Tissue-specific gene expression analyses revealed different patterns of expression for each of the single TRX isoforms in Arabidopsis [START_REF] Bohrer | New insights into the reduction systems of plastidial thioredoxins point out the unique properties of thioredoxin z from Arabidopsis[END_REF]Belin et al. 2015). TRXm3, y1, and z were almost not detectable in green tissues, while TRXf1, m1, m2, m4, and x were expressed at high levels. In comparison to leaves, roots contained overall low plastidial TRX transcript abundance; however, TRXm2 displayed the highest expression values. The source of reducing power for TRX reduction differs between plastids and other compartments (Meyer et al. 2012;Geigenberger et al. 2017). While in plastids the delivery of reducing power to TRX depends on reduced FDX, TRX in other compartments rely on NADPH and are reduced via NTR of which Arabidopsis contains two isoforms termed NTRA and NTRB (see below). In chloroplasts, photosynthetically reduced FDX provides electrons to the stromal FTR system, which in turn reduces TRX and is thus a strictly light-dependent process (see Fig. 1). In non-photosynthetic plastids, FDX is reduced by the FDX NADP + reductase (FNR) with NADPH as electron donor. However, the reduction concept of the plastidial TRXz isoform is not clear so far. [START_REF] Chibani | Biochemical properties of poplar thioredoxin z[END_REF] observed a reduction of TRXz only by the FTR system, while [START_REF] Bohrer | New insights into the reduction systems of plastidial thioredoxins point out the unique properties of thioredoxin z from Arabidopsis[END_REF] stated that it is exclusively reduced by its plastidial TRX family members. More recently, Yoshida and Hisabori (2016b) demonstrated an additional reduction pathway of TRXz via the alternative NADPH-dependent TRX system NTRC (see below) present in plastids.

The Redox Regulation of Target Enzymes Involves Multiple Functions of TRX in Plastidial Metabolism

The first discovery of TRX in plants led to a deeper understanding of the lightdependent regulation of the photosynthetic carbon assimilation reactions, namely the Calvin-Benson cycle (CBC) enzymes [START_REF] Buchanan | The S-locus receptor kinase is inhibited by thioredoxins and activated by pollen coat proteins[END_REF]. It was observed that chloroplast TRX act as electron carrier able to modulate enzyme activity by changing the redox state of the target proteins dependent on light. Thus, the previously suggested idea that the increased CO 2 fixation under light is due to the provision of the energy and redox carriers ATP and NADPH during photosynthesis, which might facilitate a promoted protein synthesis of the CBC enzymes, could be ruled out. Following the initial finding about TRX around 40 years ago, extensive in vitro studies with isolated or recombinant TRX proteins were performed (reviewed by Meyer et al. 2012;Geigenberger et al. 2017). These studies extended the list of potential TRX targets and demonstrated distinct functions for the single isoforms. TRX types f and m were found to be predominantly important for the activation of anabolic pathways, like the CBC (Wolosiuk and Buchanan 1977;[START_REF] Breazale | Chloroplast sedoheptulose 1,7-bisphosphatase: evidence for regulation by the ferredoxin/thioredoxin system[END_REF][START_REF] Collin | The Arabidopsis plastidial thioredoxins: new functions and new insights into specificity[END_REF][START_REF] Marri | Prompt and easy activation by specific thioredoxins of calvin cycle enzymes of Arabidopsis thaliana associated in the GAPDH/CP12/PRK supramolecular complex[END_REF]Yoshida and Hisabori 2016b), the biosynthesis of starch [START_REF] Ballicora | Activation of the potato tuber ADP-glucose pyrophosphorylase by thioredoxin[END_REF][START_REF] Skryhan | The role of cysteine residues in redox regulation and protein stability of Arabidopsis thaliana starch synthase 1[END_REF][START_REF] Thormählen | Inactivation of thioredoxin f1 leads to decreased light activation of ADP-glucose pyrophosphorylase and altered diurnal starch turnover in leaves of Arabidopsis thaliana[END_REF]) and lipids [START_REF] Sasaki | Link between light and fatty acid synthesis: thioredoxinlinked reductive activation of plastidic acetyl-CoA carboxylase[END_REF][START_REF] Yamaryo | In vitro reconstitution of monogalactosyldiacylglycerol (MGDG) synthase regulation by thioredoxin[END_REF], and for balancing the energy and redox homeostasis in chloroplasts by participating in ATP synthesis [START_REF] Mckinney | Activation of chloroplast ATPase by reduced thioredoxin[END_REF]) and the malate valve (Wolosiuk et al. 1977;[START_REF] Collin | The Arabidopsis plastidial thioredoxins: new functions and new insights into specificity[END_REF]Yoshida and Hisabori 2016b). Additionally, many other enzymes involved in diverse chloroplast processes were observed to be redox regulated by TRXf and m in vitro, like the oxidative pentose phosphate [START_REF] Scheibe | Dark modulation of NADP-dependent malate dehydrogenase and glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase in the chloroplast[END_REF][START_REF] Née | Redox regulation of chloroplastic glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase: a new role for f-type thioredoxin[END_REF]) and shikimate pathway [START_REF] Entus | Redox regulation of Arabidopsis 3-deoxy-D-arabinoheptulosonate 7-phosphate synthase[END_REF], the nitrogen assimilation [START_REF] Lichter | A light-dependent redox signal participates in the regulation of ammonia fixation in chloroplasts of higher plantsferredoxin: glutamate synthase is a thioredoxin-dependent enzyme[END_REF] or protein import processes [START_REF] Bartsch | Three thioredoxin targets in the inner envelope membrane of chloroplasts function in protein import and chlorophyll metabolism[END_REF]. In vitro studies investigating the regulation of the cyclic electron transport in the photosynthetic light reaction showed a preference for TRXm isoforms, but described so far contrasting effects leading to activation [START_REF] Hertle | PGRL1 is the elusive ferredoxin-plastoquinone reductase in photosynthetic cyclic electron flow[END_REF] or inhibition [START_REF] Courteille | Thioredoxin m4 controls photosynthetic alternative electron pathways in Arabidopsis[END_REF]) of this process. TRXx, y, and z showed higher affinities for enzymes involved in oxidative stress responses [START_REF] Collin | The Arabidopsis plastidial thioredoxins: new functions and new insights into specificity[END_REF][START_REF] Collin | Characterization of plastidial thioredoxins from Arabidopsis belonging to the new y-type[END_REF][START_REF] Navrot | Plant glutathione peroxidases are functional peroxiredoxins distributed in several subcellular compartments and regulated during biotic and abiotic stresses[END_REF][START_REF] Vieira Dos Santos | Specificity of thioredoxins and glutaredoxins as electron donors to two distinct classes of Arabidopsis plastidial methionine sulfoxide reductases B[END_REF][START_REF] Chibani | Biochemical properties of poplar thioredoxin z[END_REF][START_REF] Bohrer | New insights into the reduction systems of plastidial thioredoxins point out the unique properties of thioredoxin z from Arabidopsis[END_REF]). The TRX-dependent redox activation of starch degradation [START_REF] Mikkelsen | α-Glucan, water dikinase (GWD): a plastidic enzyme with redox-regulated and coordinated catalytic activity and binding affinity[END_REF][START_REF] Sparla | Redox regulation of a novel plastid-targeted betaamylase of Arabidopsis[END_REF][START_REF] Valerio | Thioredoxin-regulated β-amylase (BAM1) triggers diurnal starch degradation in guard cells, and in mesophyll cells under osmotic stress[END_REF][START_REF] Seung | Arabidopsis thaliana AMY3 is a unique redoxregulated chloroplastic α-amylase[END_REF][START_REF] Silver | Insight into the redox regulation of the phosphoglucan phosphatase SEX4 involved in starch degradation[END_REF]) and chlorophyll synthesis [START_REF] Ikegami | The CHLI1 subunit of Arabidopsis thaliana magnesium chelatase is a target protein of the chloroplast thioredoxin[END_REF][START_REF] Luo | The DUF59 family gene AE7 acts in the cytosolic iron-sulfur cluster assembly pathway to maintain nuclear genome integrity in Arabidopsis[END_REF]Yoshida and Hisabori 2016b) presented no clear distinction in the preference to different TRX isoforms until now. Additionally, it remains unclear how the starch degradation process in leaves could be activated by TRX reduction, since mobilization of transient starch occurs mainly during the night, when the photosynthetic reduction pathway of TRX is inactive.

The Plastidial TRX System Shows Surprisingly Redundant Activities In Vivo

Within the last decade, reverse genetic approaches were used to investigate Arabidopsis mutant lines lacking or overexpressing single or multiple TRX, so that in vivo evidences for the functional roles of the individual TRX in planta could be addressed. Surprisingly, under normal light conditions most single mutant lines deficient in plastidial TRX showed no or only minor visible phenotypes as compared to the wild type [START_REF] Pulido | Functional analysis of the pathways for 2-Cys peroxiredoxin reduction in Arabidopsis thaliana chloroplasts[END_REF][START_REF] Thormählen | Inactivation of thioredoxin f1 leads to decreased light activation of ADP-glucose pyrophosphorylase and altered diurnal starch turnover in leaves of Arabidopsis thaliana[END_REF][START_REF] Thormählen | Thioredoxins play a crucial role in dynamic acclimation of photosynthesis in fluctuating light[END_REF][START_REF] Laugier | Involvement of thioredoxin y2 in the preservation of leaf methionine sulfoxide reductase capacity and growth under high light[END_REF], despite the diverse roles previously proposed for these TRX based on analyses in vitro. For example, TRXf was known to be the only TRX type, which activates the redox regulated CBC enzymes fructose 1,6-bisphosphatase (FBPase) or glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate dehydrogenase [START_REF] Collin | The Arabidopsis plastidial thioredoxins: new functions and new insights into specificity[END_REF][START_REF] Marri | Prompt and easy activation by specific thioredoxins of calvin cycle enzymes of Arabidopsis thaliana associated in the GAPDH/CP12/PRK supramolecular complex[END_REF]). However, growth under moderate light conditions and CO 2 fixation rates were not impaired in the Arabidopsis trxf1 single mutant, showing a strong deficiency in TRXf protein level in leaves [START_REF] Thormählen | Inactivation of thioredoxin f1 leads to decreased light activation of ADP-glucose pyrophosphorylase and altered diurnal starch turnover in leaves of Arabidopsis thaliana[END_REF]Naranjo et al. 2016a). Even the double mutant trxf1 trxf2 with complete lack of TRXf presented only slightly decreased rosette fresh weights under short day conditions (Naranjo et al. 2016a).

The low impact of single TRX deficiencies on growth is most probably due to underestimated redundant functions of the other TRX isoforms or of additional enzymes in the plastidial redox regulatory network, like NTRC (see below). There is, however, one exception. The recently discovered Arabidopsis trxz single mutant presented an albino phenotype with strongly impaired growth compared to wild type plants [START_REF] Arsova | Plastidial thioredoxin z interacts with two fructokinase-like proteins in a thiol-dependent manner: evidence for an essential role in chloroplast development in Arabidopsis and Nicotiana benthamiana[END_REF]. Here, obviously, other TRX isoforms were not able to compensate for the deficiency in TRXz. Some of the observed metabolic phenotypes in Arabidopsis mutant lines devoid of TRXf or m isoforms were confirmatory of the in vitro results mentioned above. The redox activation state of ADP-glucose pyrophosphorylase (AGPase), which catalyzes the first committed step in starch synthesis, was attenuated in leaves of trxf1 mutants during the day, accompanied by a reduced accumulation of starch [START_REF] Thormählen | Inactivation of thioredoxin f1 leads to decreased light activation of ADP-glucose pyrophosphorylase and altered diurnal starch turnover in leaves of Arabidopsis thaliana[END_REF]) in agreement with previous in vitro results [START_REF] Ballicora | Activation of the potato tuber ADP-glucose pyrophosphorylase by thioredoxin[END_REF][START_REF] Geigenberger | Redox regulation of carbon storage and partitioning in response to light and sugars[END_REF]. However, leaves of Nicotiana tabacum overexpression lines with elevated levels of TRXf accumulated higher levels of starch, while no change in AGPase redox activation was observed [START_REF] Sanz-Barrio | Overexpression of plastidial thioredoxin f leads to enhanced starch accumulation in tobacco leaves[END_REF]. Plants lacking TRXf isoforms additionally showed an impaired lightdependent activation of the CBC enzyme FBPase [START_REF] Thormählen | Thioredoxin f1 and NADPH-dependent thioredoxin reductase C have overlapping functions in regulating photosynthetic metabolism and plant growth in response to varying light conditions[END_REF][START_REF] Yoshida | Thioredoxin selectivity for thiol-based redox regulation of target proteins in chloroplasts[END_REF]Naranjo et al. 2016a), and the ribulose 1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase/ oxigenase (Rubisco) activase (Naranjo et al. 2016a). [START_REF] Okegawa | Chloroplastic thioredoxin m functions as a major regulator of Calvin cycle enzymes during photosynthesis in vivo[END_REF] stated that the TRXm isoforms might be the predominant redox regulators of the CBC enzymes, since Arabidopsis triple mutant lines simultaneously deficient in TRXm1, m2, and m4 showed attenuated CO 2 fixation rates, smaller rosettes, and impaired redox activation states of FBPase and sedoheptulose 1,7-bisphosphatase (SBPase) as well as the malate valve enzyme NADP + -dependent malate dehydrogenase (NADP + -MDH). Since the plastidial FBPase is not activated by TRXm isoforms in vitro [START_REF] Collin | The Arabidopsis plastidial thioredoxins: new functions and new insights into specificity[END_REF]Yoshida and Hisabori 2016b), the in vivo observation on the impaired FBPase redox activation [START_REF] Okegawa | Chloroplastic thioredoxin m functions as a major regulator of Calvin cycle enzymes during photosynthesis in vivo[END_REF] might not be due to direct TRX effects, but most probably due to secondary reasons, like an inhibited electron flow to downstream metabolic processes. The latter suggestion would be in agreement with additional in vivo studies, which found TRXm impacts on processes involved in the photosynthetic light reaction, like an impaired biogenesis of photosystem (PS) II in Arabidopsis mutant lines simultaneously lacking TRXm1, m2, and m4 [START_REF] Wang | Evidence for a role of chloroplastic m-type thioredoxins in the biogenesis of photosystem II in Arabidopsis[END_REF] or the inhibition of cyclic electron transport by TRXm4 orthologues in N. tabacum [START_REF] Courteille | Thioredoxin m4 controls photosynthetic alternative electron pathways in Arabidopsis[END_REF]. Very recently Arabidopsis trxm1 and trxm2 single and double mutants were compared to wild type plants with respect to the transient activation of the NADP + -MDH after the onset of light [START_REF] Thormählen | Thioredoxins play a crucial role in dynamic acclimation of photosynthesis in fluctuating light[END_REF]. It was demonstrated that the lightdependent redox activation of the NADP + -MDH decreased upon combined deficiencies of TRXm1 and m2, which corresponded to an impaired acclimation to fluctuating light intensities during the day. In vitro experiments revealed the ability of TRXf and at least partially TRXm to reductively activate the NADP + -MDH [START_REF] Collin | The Arabidopsis plastidial thioredoxins: new functions and new insights into specificity[END_REF]Yoshida and Hisabori 2016b). However, this contrasts with illuminated leaves of trxf Arabidopsis mutant lines exhibiting even higher NADP + -MDH activation states [START_REF] Thormählen | Thioredoxin f1 and NADPH-dependent thioredoxin reductase C have overlapping functions in regulating photosynthetic metabolism and plant growth in response to varying light conditions[END_REF]. Further studies are necessary to investigate the distinct involvements of TRXf and m isoforms in redox regulated processes playing a role in the fluctuating light response.

More recently, the findings about TRX-dependent redox regulation of the chlorophyll biosynthesis pathway were extended in vivo. Transgenic pea plants with simultaneously silenced TRXf and m genes were impaired in redox activation of Mg-chelatase subunits [START_REF] Luo | The DUF59 family gene AE7 acts in the cytosolic iron-sulfur cluster assembly pathway to maintain nuclear genome integrity in Arabidopsis[END_REF]. [START_REF] Da | Thioredoxin and NADPH-dependent thioredoxin reductase C regulation of tetrapyrrole biosynthesis[END_REF] demonstrated in Arabidopsis that the combined silencing of TRXm1, m2, and m4 impairs the chlorophyll biosynthesis pathway by attenuating the redox control of the Mg-protoporphyrin methyl transferase (CHLM). Furthermore, the in vivo insights about TRXm3 revealed functions in meristem development by modulating symplastic protein transport [START_REF] Benitez-Alfonso | Control of Arabidopsis meristem development by thioredoxin-dependent regulation of intercellular transport[END_REF]. In response to oxidative stress, mutant lines lacking TRXy2 showed attenuated protein repair mechanisms in leaves due to impaired redox activation of methionine sulfoxide reductases (MSR) [START_REF] Laugier | Involvement of thioredoxin y2 in the preservation of leaf methionine sulfoxide reductase capacity and growth under high light[END_REF]. TRXz was demonstrated to be essential for autotrophic growth by influencing plastidial gene expression as structural component of the plastidencoded RNA polymerase [START_REF] Arsova | Plastidial thioredoxin z interacts with two fructokinase-like proteins in a thiol-dependent manner: evidence for an essential role in chloroplast development in Arabidopsis and Nicotiana benthamiana[END_REF], although this effect seems to be independent of TRXz redox activity [START_REF] Wimmelbacher | Redox activity of thioredoxin z and fructokinase-like protein 1 is dispensable for autotrophic growth of Arabidopsis thaliana[END_REF]. Taken together, the diverse functions of typical TRX in plastidial processes investigated within the last decades illustrate a complex redox regulatory system, which is still not fully elucidated.

Plastids Contain Additional Atypical TRX with Mainly

Unresolved Functions Contrary to the TRX described above, the members of the atypical TRX are not yet well analyzed in their functional roles of plastidial metabolism (Meyer et al. 2012;Belin et al. 2015). These unusual TRX have different protein properties such as atypical active site motifs, multiple TRX domains, or combinations of TRX and other domains. The proteins of the atypical Cys/His-rich TRX (ACHT) family consist of six isoforms carrying diverse non-canonical active site motifs [START_REF] Dangoor | A small family of chloroplast atypical thioredoxins[END_REF]Meyer et al. 2012;Belin et al. 2015). The chloroplastic drought-induced stress protein CDSP32 contains two TRX domains and several additional conserved Cys [START_REF] Rey | A novel thioredoxin-like protein located in the chloroplast is induced by water deficit in Solanum tuberosum L. plants[END_REF]. One of the TRX domains is functional with an unusual redox-active motif (HCGPC), while the second domain is degenerated. The transmembrane high-chlorophyll-fluorescence-mutant protein HCF164 is localized in the thylakoid membranes with atypical TRX motifs (WCEVC) at the stromal as well as at the lumen side [START_REF] Motohashi | HCF164 receives reducing equivalents from stromal thioredoxin across the thylakoid membrane and mediates reduction of target proteins in the thylakoid lumen[END_REF]Meyer et al. 2012). About the two isoforms WCRKC1 and WCRKC2 not much is known; however, these proteins contain non-canonical redox sites as their names suggest (Meyer et al. 2012). ACHT2, ACHT4, ACHT6, CDSP32, HCF164, and WCRKC1 are mostly expressed in green tissues (Belin et al. 2015). The genes encoding ACHT1, ACHT3, and ACHT5 have an overall low expression in tested tissues, except for mature and germinating pollen, in which the ACHT3 gene showed very high transcript level. How the reduction pathways for the atypical TRX are organized is not yet sufficiently investigated. One tested member was HCF164, which was reduced by TRXm [START_REF] Motohashi | HCF164 receives reducing equivalents from stromal thioredoxin across the thylakoid membrane and mediates reduction of target proteins in the thylakoid lumen[END_REF]. TRXm enables a transmembrane electron transfer to the luminal HCF164 part, so that HCF164 acts as a transducer of reducing equivalents to the inner parts of the thylakoids. Whether the FTR-dependent reduction pathway in chloroplasts is directly interacting with atypical TRX needs to be tested.

The functional insights about atypical TRX are weak compared to the other plastidial TRX. Members of the ACHT family have a less reducing redox midpoint potential than typical TRX and prefer 2-Cys peroxiredoxins (PRX; see below) in comparison to NADP + -MDH as redox targets in vitro [START_REF] Dangoor | A small family of chloroplast atypical thioredoxins[END_REF]. [START_REF] Eliyahu | ACHT4-driven oxidation of APS1 attenuates starch synthesis under low light intensity in Arabidopsis plants[END_REF] observed in Arabidopsis mutant studies that ACHT4 is deactivating the key enzyme of starch synthesis AGPase through oxidation of the regulatory Cys in the AGPase small subunit APS1 under low light conditions. CDSP32 was shown to be involved in photooxidative stress responses by interacting with plastidial PRX (PRXQ and 2-Cys PRX) and MSRB1 [START_REF] Rey | A novel thioredoxin-like protein located in the chloroplast is induced by water deficit in Solanum tuberosum L. plants[END_REF][START_REF] Tarrago | Plant thioredoxin CDSP32 regenerates 1-Cys methionine sulfoxide reductase B activity through the direct reduction of sulfenic acid[END_REF]). HCF164 acts as reductant for luminal target proteins of the photosynthetic electron transport chain and is essential for assembling the chloroplast cytochrome b6f complex [START_REF] Lennartz | HCF164 encodes a thioredoxin-like protein involved in the biogenesis of the cytochrome b 6 f complex in Arabidopsis[END_REF][START_REF] Motohashi | HCF164 receives reducing equivalents from stromal thioredoxin across the thylakoid membrane and mediates reduction of target proteins in the thylakoid lumen[END_REF]. Future studies are needed to identify additional biological roles of atypical TRX in plastidial processes and the connection to their typical relatives.

NADPH-Dependent Thioredoxin Reductase C System

The NTRC Gene Is Exclusive of Aerobic Photosynthetic Organisms

In heterotrophic organisms, and non-photosynthetic plant cells and compartments, the reduction of TRX relies on NADPH with the participation of an NTR. NTR are flavoenzymes able to transfer reducing equivalents from NADPH via FAD to a double Cys at their active site, which reduce the disulfide at the active site of TRX.

Like TRX, NTR are widely distributed in prokaryotic and eukaryotic organisms; however, two forms of the enzyme have evolved with different molecular and kinetic properties [START_REF] Williams | Thioredoxin reductase two modes of catalysis have evolved[END_REF]. While the enzyme from prokaryotes is, in its native form, a homodimer formed by subunits of approximately 35 kDa with NADPH, FAD, and central domains, the enzyme from mammals has a larger molecular mass (approximately 55 kDa) and contains selenocysteine, which is active in catalysis [START_REF] Naranjo | The mechanism of thioredoxin reductase from human placenta is similar to the mechanisms of lipoamide dehydrogenase and glutathione reductase and is distinct from the mechanism of thioredoxin reductase from Escherichia coli[END_REF]. In plants, the first NTR cloned and characterized, from Arabidopsis [START_REF] Jacquot | Arabidopsis thaliana NAPHP thioredoxin reductase. cDNA characterization and expression of the recombinant protein in Escherichia coli[END_REF]) and wheat [START_REF] Serrato | Cloning of thioredoxin h reductase and characterization of the thioredoxin reductase-thioredoxin h system from wheat[END_REF], revealed that the enzyme is similar to the one in prokaryotes.

When the genome sequences from Arabidopsis and rice were available, a search of the genes encoding NTR in these plants revealed the presence of three genes termed NTRA, NTRB, and NTRC [START_REF] Serrato | Cloning of thioredoxin h reductase and characterization of the thioredoxin reductase-thioredoxin h system from wheat[END_REF]. The NTRA and NTRB genes encode polypeptides corresponding to those previously reported from Arabidopsis and wheat. Further analyses in Arabidopsis revealed that NTRB is the predominant isoform in mitochondria whereas NTRA is predominant in the cytosol [START_REF] Reichheld | AtNTRB is the major mitochondrial thioredoxin reductase in Arabidopsis thaliana[END_REF]. The polypeptide deduced of the NTRC gene contained the expected active site double Cys as well as the NADPH and FAD domains, hence being very similar to NTRA and NTRB. However, in contrast to these proteins, the deduced NTRC polypeptide contained a putative transit peptide at the N-terminus and, most intriguingly, a putative TRX domain at the C-terminus; thus, it contained a complete NTR-TRX system in a single polypeptide [START_REF] Serrato | A novel NADPH thioredoxin reductase, localized in the chloroplast, which deficiency causes hypersensitivity to abiotic stress in Arabidopsis thaliana[END_REF]). Both the NTR and TRX domains were expressed in the bacterium Escherichia coli as N-terminal His-tagged proteins, and the biochemical analysis confirmed that these truncated polypeptides displayed NTR and TRX activity, respectively, in vitro, leading to the proposal that NTRC is a bifunctional enzyme [START_REF] Serrato | A novel NADPH thioredoxin reductase, localized in the chloroplast, which deficiency causes hypersensitivity to abiotic stress in Arabidopsis thaliana[END_REF]). Moreover, the search in genomes available at the moment, and recently confirmed, showed that the NTRC gene is exclusively found in aerobic photosynthetic organisms including some, but not all, cyanobacteria, algae, and plants [START_REF] Serrato | A novel NADPH thioredoxin reductase, localized in the chloroplast, which deficiency causes hypersensitivity to abiotic stress in Arabidopsis thaliana[END_REF][START_REF] Najera | An event of alternative splicing affects the expression of the NTRC gene, encoding NADPH-thioredoxin reductase C, in seed plants[END_REF]). Furthermore, it was shown that NTRC is localized in the chloroplast stroma both in Arabidopsis and rice [START_REF] Serrato | A novel NADPH thioredoxin reductase, localized in the chloroplast, which deficiency causes hypersensitivity to abiotic stress in Arabidopsis thaliana[END_REF][START_REF] Moon | The C-type Arabidopsis thioredoxin reductase ANTR-C acts as an electron donor to 2-Cys peroxiredoxins in chloroplasts[END_REF], hence implying that the putative transit peptide deduced of the NTRC gene sequence actually serves to target the enzyme to this organelle. More recently, the localization of NTRC was analyzed by expressing NTRC::GFP fusion proteins in Arabidopsis. This study confirmed the localization of NTRC in chloroplasts and showed the presence of the enzyme in plastids from non-photosynthetic tissues such as root amyloplasts, though NTRC is much less abundant in these tissues as compared with green tissues [START_REF] Kirchsteiger | NADPH thioredoxin reductase C is localized in plastids of photosynthetic and nonphotosynthetic tissues and is involved in lateral root formation in Arabidopsis[END_REF]. The phylogenetic analysis suggests that the NTRC gene originated in cyanobacteria most probably by mutational joining of adjacent but independent NTR and TRX genes. The combination of NTR and TRX activities in a single enzyme might provide selective advantage, which explains the presence of the NTRC gene in all eukaryotic photosynthetic organisms [START_REF] Najera | An event of alternative splicing affects the expression of the NTRC gene, encoding NADPH-thioredoxin reductase C, in seed plants[END_REF]).

NTRC Is an Efficient Reductant of 2-Cys PRX

An important breakthrough for the biochemical characterization of NTRC was the identification of 2-Cys PRX as a target of the enzyme. 2-Cys PRX are thioldependent PRX able to reduce hydrogen or organic peroxides to water or the corresponding alcohol [START_REF] Perkins | Peroxiredoxins: guardians against oxidative stress and modulators of peroxide signaling[END_REF]. There are different types of 2-Cys PRX, the one found to be a target of NTRC belongs to the typical form, which is a homodimer each of the monomers containing two catalytically active Cys residues, peroxidatic (S P ) and resolving (S R ). A catalytic cycle is initiated by the reaction of hydrogen peroxide with the thiolate form of S P , which is oxidized to sulfenic (-SOH). This intermediate is then attacked by S R thus forming a disulfide with the liberation of water (see Fig. 2). For a new catalytic cycle, the S P -S R disulfide has to be reduced. This reaction is in chloroplasts efficiently performed by NTRC. Indeed, it is possible to reconstitute in vitro a system formed by NTRC and 2-Cys PRX which is able to use NADPH to reduce hydrogen peroxide [START_REF] Perez-Ruiz | Rice NTRC is a high-efficiency redox system for chloroplast protection against oxidative damage[END_REF][START_REF] Moon | The C-type Arabidopsis thioredoxin reductase ANTR-C acts as an electron donor to 2-Cys peroxiredoxins in chloroplasts[END_REF].

The finding that NTRC is an efficient reductant of 2-Cys PRX was important because it allowed an in-depth characterization of the biochemical properties of this novel enzyme. It was first shown that NTRC conjugates its NTR and TRX activities to efficiently support the hydrogen peroxide scavenging activity of 2-Cys PRX. However, equal amount of the truncated polypeptides containing the NTR and TRX domains of NTRC showed a very poor activity, indicating that the conformation of the enzyme is important to display its biochemical activity. Moreover, it was established that NTRC interacts with 2-Cys PRX by the TRX domain and that the ), hence yielding an inactive form of the enzyme. This state is reversed by the reductive action of SRX (see above for Abbreviations) redox-sensitive Cys residues at the active sites of the NTR and the TRX domains are essential for activity [START_REF] Perez-Ruiz | A proposed reaction mechanism for rice NADPH thioredoxin reductase C, an enzyme with protein disulfide reductase activity[END_REF]. Based on these data it was proposed that the catalytically active form of NTRC is a homodimer arranged in a head-to-tail conformation. The enzyme shows much higher affinity for NADPH than for NADH. Thus, NADPH is the source of reducing power, which is transferred to FAD and then to the double Cys at the active site of the NTR domain of one of the subunits. There is then an inter-subunit transfer of electrons to the active site double Cys of the TRX domain of the other subunit of the enzyme, which interacts with the disulfide of the 2-Cys PRX [START_REF] Perez-Ruiz | A proposed reaction mechanism for rice NADPH thioredoxin reductase C, an enzyme with protein disulfide reductase activity[END_REF]. According to this model, stating that NTRC interacts with its targets by the TRX domain, it could be considered that NTRC is a TRX with its own reductase, which might be the reason of the high catalytic efficiency of this enzyme [START_REF] Cejudo | The function of the NADPH thioredoxin reductase C-2-Cys peroxiredoxin system in plastid redox regulation and signalling[END_REF]. The high affinity of NTRC for NADPH and the proposed electron transfer pathway was further confirmed by stopped-flow spectroscopy [START_REF] Bernal-Bayard | Electron transfer pathways and dynamics of chloroplast NADPH-dependent thioredoxin reductase C (NTRC)[END_REF], and the interaction between NTRC and 2-Cys PRX was also demonstrated in vivo by bimolecular fluorescence complementation analyses [START_REF] Bernal-Bayard | Molecular recognition in the interaction of chloroplast 2-Cys peroxiredoxin with NADPH-thioredoxin reductase C (NTRC) and thioredoxin x[END_REF]. In line with this notion it was found that NTRC is unable to interact with other plastidial TRX, hence, having no activity as NTR [START_REF] Bohrer | New insights into the reduction systems of plastidial thioredoxins point out the unique properties of thioredoxin z from Arabidopsis[END_REF]. However, the Arabidopsis ntrc mutant, which is devoid of NTRC, was partially complemented by the expression of a mutated version of the NTRC gene encoding an enzyme with intact NTR and inactive TRX domains, indicating that the NTR domain of NTRC might interact with other plastidial TRX among which TRXf was proposed as the most likely partner [START_REF] Toivola | Overexpression of chloroplast NADPHdependent thioredoxin reductase in Arabidopsis enhances leaf growth and elucidates in vivo function of reductase and thioredoxin domains[END_REF]. Therefore, whether NTRC acts exclusively as a TRX with its reductase incorporated or is able to interact with other plastidial TRX, hence showing NTR activity, still requires further analysis.

Finally, it should be mentioned that NTRC shows ability to oligomerize in vitro. While for the enzyme from rice this ability is redox sensitive, the enzyme being detected as dimer in the presence of NADPH and as oligomer in its absence [START_REF] Perez-Ruiz | Rice NTRC is a high-efficiency redox system for chloroplast protection against oxidative damage[END_REF], the oligomerization capacity of the enzyme from barley is redox insensitive [START_REF] Wulff | The activity of barley NADPH-dependent thioredoxin reductase C is independent of the oligomeric state of the protein: tetrameric structure determined by cryo-electron microscopy[END_REF]. The oligomeric form of NTRC shows chaperone and holdase activity, which might be the reason of the tolerance to elevated temperature of plants overexpressing NTRC [START_REF] Chae | Thioredoxin reductase type C (NTRC) orchestrates enhanced thermotolerance to Arabidopsis by its redox-dependent holdase chaperone function[END_REF]).

NTRC Controls the Redox State of 2-Cys PRX

Based on the fact that NTRC is an efficient reductant of 2-Cys PRX, hence supporting the hydrogen peroxide scavenging activity of these enzymes, it was proposed that NTRC has antioxidant activity [START_REF] Perez-Ruiz | Rice NTRC is a high-efficiency redox system for chloroplast protection against oxidative damage[END_REF]). However, it was also shown that different chloroplast TRX are able to reduce 2-Cys PRX, the most efficient one being TRXx [START_REF] Collin | The Arabidopsis plastidial thioredoxins: new functions and new insights into specificity[END_REF]. Thus, a relevant issue was to establish the hierarchy of the different chloroplast redox systems for the reduction of 2-Cys PRX. The redox state of the 2-Cys PRX in vivo, determined as the ratio of dimeric (oxidized) to monomeric (reduced) forms of the enzyme, was severely impaired in an Arabidopsis mutant devoid of NTRC, which contained almost no monomeric form of 2-Cys PRX [START_REF] Kirchsteiger | NADPH thioredoxin reductase C controls the redox status of chloroplast 2-Cys peroxiredoxins in Arabidopsis thaliana[END_REF]. In contrast, mutant plants devoid of TRXx showed levels of oxidized and reduced 2-Cys PRX indistinguishable of the wild type, indicating that NTRC is more relevant reductant of 2-Cys PRX than TRXx [START_REF] Pulido | Functional analysis of the pathways for 2-Cys peroxiredoxin reduction in Arabidopsis thaliana chloroplasts[END_REF].

In the presence of excess hydrogen peroxide, 2-Cys PRX may be inactivated by over-oxidation of the sulfenic acid intermediate of S P (-SOH) to sulfinic acid (-SO 2 H), which can be reverted by sulfiredoxin (SRX) [START_REF] Biteau | ATP-dependent reduction of cysteine-sulphinic acid by S. cerevisiae sulphiredoxin[END_REF], or even to sulfonic acid (-SO 3 H), which is irreversible. Interestingly, 2-Cys PRX from eukaryotes are more sensitive to over-oxidation than those from prokaryotes due to structural constraints imposed by the presence of two motifs, GGLC and YF, in the enzyme from eukaryotes [START_REF] Wood | Peroxiredoxin evolution and the regulation of hydrogen peroxide signaling[END_REF]. Since over-oxidation causes the inactivation of 2-Cys PRX, it was proposed that this feature is a gain-of-function of the enzymes from eukaryotes that allows the accumulation of hydrogen peroxide and, thus, its signaling function, the so-called floodgate hypothesis [START_REF] Wood | Peroxiredoxin evolution and the regulation of hydrogen peroxide signaling[END_REF]. Chloroplast 2-Cys PRX are sensitive to over-oxidation, hence behaving as eukaryotic type enzymes [START_REF] Kirchsteiger | NADPH thioredoxin reductase C controls the redox status of chloroplast 2-Cys peroxiredoxins in Arabidopsis thaliana[END_REF]). However, since plant chloroplasts have prokaryotic origin similar to modern cyanobacteria [START_REF] Gould | Plastid evolution[END_REF] the question arising was whether or not 2-Cys PRX from cyanobacteria are sensitive to over-oxidation. The finding that the enzyme from Anabaena is sensitive to overoxidation while the one from Synechocystis is not [START_REF] Pascual | Overoxidation of 2-Cys peroxiredoxin in prokaryotes: cyanobacterial 2-Cys peroxiredoxins sensitive to oxidative stress[END_REF] showed the existence of sensitive 2-Cys PRX in prokaryotes and revealed that cyanobacteria have developed two strategies to cope with hydrogen peroxide, the strategy of Anabaena being remarkably similar to the one in chloroplasts.

The level of over-oxidation of chloroplast 2-Cys PRX and, thus, the balance of antioxidant and signaling activities of these enzymes depends on the reductants (NTRC and TRX of this organelle), but also on SRX, which catalyzes the reversion of the over-oxidized to the reduced form of the enzyme [START_REF] Puerto-Galan | The contribution of NADPH thioredoxin reductase C (NTRC) and sulfiredoxin to 2-Cys peroxiredoxin overoxidation in Arabidopsis thaliana chloroplasts[END_REF]). However, a double mutant of Arabidopsis devoid of NTRC and SRX showed the phenotype of the ntrc mutant [START_REF] Puerto-Galan | The contribution of NADPH thioredoxin reductase C (NTRC) and sulfiredoxin to 2-Cys peroxiredoxin overoxidation in Arabidopsis thaliana chloroplasts[END_REF]. Altogether, the results of the biochemical analyses of NTRC in conjunction with the genetic interaction of NTRC with TRXx and SRX indicate that a central function of NTRC is the control of the redox state of the 2-Cys PRX, which is important for the balance of the harmful and signaling activities of hydrogen peroxide.

NTRC Participates in the Redox Regulation of Light Energy Utilization and Several Chloroplast Biosynthetic Pathways

To address the issue of the function of NTRC the use of Arabidopsis mutants has been a useful tool. The Arabidopsis knock-out mutant ntrc shows pale green leaves with a lower content of chlorophylls and retarded growth, as compared to wild type plants. Moreover, the retarded growth phenotype of the ntrc mutant is dependent on the photoperiod, short-day conditions aggravating the phenotype [START_REF] Serrato | A novel NADPH thioredoxin reductase, localized in the chloroplast, which deficiency causes hypersensitivity to abiotic stress in Arabidopsis thaliana[END_REF][START_REF] Lepistö | Chloroplast NADPH-thioredoxin reductase interacts with photoperiodic development in Arabidopsis[END_REF]). More in-depth analyses revealed that the ntrc mutant displays lower CO 2 fixation rates, especially at low light intensities, and abnormal chloroplast structure [START_REF] Perez-Ruiz | Rice NTRC is a high-efficiency redox system for chloroplast protection against oxidative damage[END_REF][START_REF] Lepistö | Chloroplast NADPH-thioredoxin reductase interacts with photoperiodic development in Arabidopsis[END_REF]). In addition, plants devoid of NTRC have been reported to be hypersensitive to different abiotic stresses, such as salinity and drought [START_REF] Serrato | A novel NADPH thioredoxin reductase, localized in the chloroplast, which deficiency causes hypersensitivity to abiotic stress in Arabidopsis thaliana[END_REF]), prolonged darkness (Perez-Ruiz et al. 2006), and heat [START_REF] Chae | Thioredoxin reductase type C (NTRC) orchestrates enhanced thermotolerance to Arabidopsis by its redox-dependent holdase chaperone function[END_REF], and also to biotic stress [START_REF] Ishiga | NTRC and chloroplast-generated reactive oxygen species regulate Pseudomonas syringae pv. tomato disease development in tomato and Arabidopsis[END_REF][START_REF] Ishiga | NADPH-dependent thioredoxin reductase C plays a role in nonhost disease resistance against Pseudomonas syringae pathogens by regulating chloroplastgenerated reactive oxygen species[END_REF]. These phenotypic characteristics of the ntrc mutant might be explained by the antioxidant function of NTRC as an efficient reductant of 2-Cys PRX. In this regard, it is worth mentioning that the NTRC-2-Cys PRX system has also been reported to exist in other photosynthetic organisms including green algae, such as Chlorella [START_REF] Machida | Chloroplast NADPH-dependent thioredoxin reductase from Chlorella vulgaris alleviates environmental stresses in yeast together with 2-Cys peroxiredoxin[END_REF], and cyanobacteria, such as Anabaena [START_REF] Pascual | A comparative analysis of the NADPH thioredoxin reductase C-2-Cys peroxiredoxin system from plants and cyanobacteria[END_REF]. Indeed, an Anabaena mutant strain devoid of NTRC (ΔntrC) is more sensitive to oxidative stress, especially to treatments with hydrogen peroxide, and the redox balance of 2-Cys PRX is impaired, more oxidized, in the mutant [START_REF] Sanchez-Riego | NADPH-thioredoxin reductase C mediates the response to oxidative stress and thermotolerance in the cyanobacterium Anabaena sp. PCC7120[END_REF].

Beside the phenotypic features related with the response to stress, which might be due to the antioxidant activity of the NTRC-2-Cys PRX system, it should be noted that the Arabidopsis ntrc mutant has a rather pleiotropic phenotype, suggesting additional functions for the enzyme. This notion was further supported by the phenotype of an Arabidopsis mutant (Δ2cp) with severely decreased levels of 2-Cys PRX [START_REF] Pulido | Functional analysis of the pathways for 2-Cys peroxiredoxin reduction in Arabidopsis thaliana chloroplasts[END_REF], which is almost like the wild type.

It is well known that AGPase, a key regulatory enzyme of the starch biosynthesis pathway, is subject to allosteric regulation but also to sugar and light-dependent redox regulation [START_REF] Geigenberger | Redox regulation of carbon storage and partitioning in response to light and sugars[END_REF]. On the other hand, as stated above, NTRC uses as source of reducing power NADPH, which can be generated from sugars during the night by the oxidative pentose phosphate pathway. These results suggested the possibility that NTRC participates in the redox regulation of starch biosynthesis, a notion further supported by the lower content of starch in roots and leaves of the ntrc mutant. In vitro and in vivo analyses confirmed the participation of NTRC in the redox regulation of AGPase [START_REF] Michalska | NTRC links built-in thioredoxin to light and sucrose in regulating starch synthesis in chloroplasts and amyloplasts[END_REF][START_REF] Lepistö | Deletion of chloroplast NADPH-dependent thioredoxin reductase results in inability to regulate starch synthesis and causes stunted growth under shortday photoperiods[END_REF] and, thus, in starch biosynthesis. Interestingly, the redox state of the AGPase was found to be altered not only in leaf chloroplasts but also in roots, suggesting a role of NTRC in non-photosynthetic tissues [START_REF] Michalska | NTRC links built-in thioredoxin to light and sucrose in regulating starch synthesis in chloroplasts and amyloplasts[END_REF], in line with the localization of the enzyme in any type of plastids. However, Arabidopsis transgenic plants expressing NTRC exclusively in green tissues, by expression of the NTRC cDNA under the control of the RbcS gene promoter in the ntrc background, was sufficient to rescue the wild type phenotype with respect to growth and pigmentation, while expression exclusively in roots had no effect [START_REF] Kirchsteiger | NADPH thioredoxin reductase C is localized in plastids of photosynthetic and nonphotosynthetic tissues and is involved in lateral root formation in Arabidopsis[END_REF]). These results show the essential function of chloroplasts for the growth of photosynthetic and non-photosynthetic organs.

The characteristic pale green leaf phenotype of the ntrc mutant, which is due to lower chlorophyll content than in the leaves of the wild type [START_REF] Serrato | A novel NADPH thioredoxin reductase, localized in the chloroplast, which deficiency causes hypersensitivity to abiotic stress in Arabidopsis thaliana[END_REF][START_REF] Lepistö | Chloroplast NADPH-thioredoxin reductase interacts with photoperiodic development in Arabidopsis[END_REF], suggested the participation of NTRC in chlorophyll biosynthesis. Several reports have shown the NTRC-dependent redox regulation of different enzymes involved in the tetrapyrrole biosynthesis pathway including the glutamyltransfer RNA reductase GluTR1, CHLM [START_REF] Richter | Posttranslational influence of NADPH-dependent thioredoxin reductase C on enzymes in tetrapyrrole synthesis[END_REF]) and the Mg-chelatase subunit CHLI [START_REF] Perez-Ruiz | NADPH thioredoxin reductase C is involved in redox regulation of the Mg-chelatase I subunit in Arabidopsis thaliana chloroplasts[END_REF].

More recently, it has been reported that NTRC is required for efficient light energy utilization. Under growth light conditions, the ntrc mutant displays high levels of energy dissipation by non-photochemical quenching (NPQ) with the concomitant decrease of the photosynthetic performance [START_REF] Thormählen | Thioredoxin f1 and NADPH-dependent thioredoxin reductase C have overlapping functions in regulating photosynthetic metabolism and plant growth in response to varying light conditions[END_REF]Naranjo et al. 2016b;[START_REF] Carrillo | Multi-level regulation of the chloroplast ATP synthase: the chloroplast NADPH thioredoxin reductase C (NTRC) is required for redox modulation specifically under low irradiance[END_REF]. Plants lacking NTRC accumulate more protons in the thylakoid lumen at low and moderate light intensities leading to the synthesis of zeaxanthin and the activation of the rapid inducible and reversible component of NPQ, namely the energy-or ΔpH-dependent quenching (qE) (Naranjo et al. 2016b;[START_REF] Carrillo | Multi-level regulation of the chloroplast ATP synthase: the chloroplast NADPH thioredoxin reductase C (NTRC) is required for redox modulation specifically under low irradiance[END_REF]. The higher accumulation of protons in the absence of NTRC has been attributed to a lower reduction of the ATP synthase (ATPase) γ-subunit (Naranjo et al. 2016b;[START_REF] Carrillo | Multi-level regulation of the chloroplast ATP synthase: the chloroplast NADPH thioredoxin reductase C (NTRC) is required for redox modulation specifically under low irradiance[END_REF], though other mechanisms may be also involved. The lower photosynthetic performance of the ntrc mutant leads to a state of permanent starvation for light energy, which may explain its retarded growth phenotype, particularly under conditions of light limitation like short-day photoperiod. Blocking NPQ in the ntrc mutant background by the lack of the PS II subunit S (PsbS), in the double mutant ntrc psbs, causes the partial recovery of the photosynthetic performance and growth (Naranjo et al. 2016b). Furthermore, since the induction and recovery of qE are essential to cope with rapid changes in light intensities, the growth of the ntrc mutant is even more compromised under fluctuating light conditions [START_REF] Thormählen | Thioredoxins play a crucial role in dynamic acclimation of photosynthesis in fluctuating light[END_REF]).

NADPH-Dependent Thioredoxin Reductase C Acts

Concertedly with Other Chloroplast Thioredoxins

The finding of the participation of NTRC in the redox regulation of biosynthetic pathways previously known to be regulated by TRX raised the issue of the relationship of NTRC with the different TRX in chloroplasts (see Fig. 3). This issue has been addressed in recent years by the analysis of Arabidopsis mutants combining the deficiency of NTRC and TRX. The different mutants analyzed lacking NTRC and f-type TRX [START_REF] Thormählen | Thioredoxin f1 and NADPH-dependent thioredoxin reductase C have overlapping functions in regulating photosynthetic metabolism and plant growth in response to varying light conditions[END_REF][START_REF] Ojeda | NADPH thioredoxin reductase C and thioredoxins act concertedly in seedling development[END_REF] or NTRC and TRXx [START_REF] Ojeda | NADPH thioredoxin reductase C and thioredoxins act concertedly in seedling development[END_REF] have in common a very severe growth inhibition phenotype, in agreement with the severe impairment of the efficiency of use of light energy and redox regulation of CBC enzymes in these mutants. In line with these results, Arabidopsis mutants combining the lack of NTRC and the deficiency of m-type TRX show as well a severe growth retard and impairment of the redox regulation of enzymes of the tetrapyrrole biosynthesis pathway [START_REF] Da | Thioredoxin and NADPH-dependent thioredoxin reductase C regulation of tetrapyrrole biosynthesis[END_REF]. Altogether, these results support the notion of a concerted action of NTRC with other plastidial TRX, such as those of types f, x, and m in chloroplast redox regulation. The finding that the double mutant combining the deficiency of NTRC and the catalytic subunit of FTR is not viable (Yoshida and Hisabori 2016b) lends further support to this notion. An initial possibility to explain the concerted action of NTRC and TRX in chloroplast redox regulation is that both systems share common targets, so that the lack of one of them might be complemented by the other, while the combined deficiency of both systems would cause the severe impairment of the redox regulation of these targets, hence with strong consequences on plant phenotype. In support of this notion, [START_REF] Nikkanen | Crosstalk between chloroplast thioredoxin systems in regulation of photosynthesis[END_REF] showed the interaction of NTRC in planta with well-established TRX targets such as FBPase. However, in vitro assay analyses showed that NTRC is unable to reduce FBPase [START_REF] Ojeda | NADPH thioredoxin reductase C and thioredoxins act concertedly in seedling development[END_REF], suggesting that the effect of NTRC on the redox regulation of this enzyme might be indirect. In a recent report it was shown that the content of 2-Cys PRX affects the phenotype of Arabidopsis mutants devoid of NTRC, so that decreased contents of 2-Cys PRX alleviated the phenotype while increased contents had the opposite effect (Perez- Based on these results it was proposed that the NTRC-dependent redox balance of 2-Cys PRX modulates the redox state of the pool of plastid TRX and, consequently, the redox regulation of the TRX targets. These results provide an explanation for the indirect participation of NTRC in the redox regulation of the TRX-dependent processes of the chloroplast.

The Extraplastidial Thioredoxin Systems

While functions of chloroplastic TRX have been extensively studied, extraplastidial TRX systems are much less characterized in plants. Among the around 40 TRX found in Arabidopsis, at least 20 of them are extraplastidial isoforms, based on the absence of a putative plastidial targeting sequence [START_REF] Meyer | Thioredoxins in Arabidopsis and other plants[END_REF](Meyer et al. , 2012)). However, for some of them, the respective localization is still unexplored. It is now clearly established that functional TRX systems are present in most cellular compartments, including mitochondria, cytosol, nucleus, and endomembrane systems (see Fig. 4). In contrast to the large number of extraplastidial TRX, only two NTR genes (NTRA and NTRB in Arabidopsis) are found in the genome of most higher plants, suggesting multiple subcellular localizations of these isoforms. Consistently, NTR isoforms were found dual or even triple targeted in cytosol, mitochondria, and nucleus in Arabidopsis and pea [START_REF] Laloi | Identification and characterization of a mitochondrial thioredoxin system in plants[END_REF]Serrato and Cejudo 2003;[START_REF] Reichheld | AtNTRB is the major mitochondrial thioredoxin reductase in Arabidopsis thaliana[END_REF]Marchal et al. 2014).

Cytosolic Thioredoxin System

Cytosolic TRX are composed of h-type (h for heterotrophic) and other type TRX. TRXh isoforms have been mostly characterized in Arabidopsis but orthologues are found in other plants including rice and poplar [START_REF] Meyer | Evolution of redoxin genes in the green lineage[END_REF]. All TRXh isoforms consist of a single TRX domain harboring a WCG(P)C active site and, according to their respective clustering on phylogenetic trees, have been divided into three different subtypes (I, II, III). TRX from type I (TRXh1, h3, h4, h5) are mainly cytosolic and typically reduced by NTR [START_REF] Rivera-Madrid | Evidence for five divergent thioredoxin h sequences in Arabidopsis thaliana[END_REF]. Type II (h2, h7, h8) and type III (h9, h10, atypical CxxS1 and 2) TRXh are less characterized isoforms. While predominantly located in the cytosol, TRXh2, h8, and h9 are also located in the endomembrane system, presumably through the fact that they harbor myristoylated/palmitoylated residues in their N-terminal extensions (see below) [START_REF] Traverso | Roles of N-terminal fatty acid acylations in membrane compartment partitioning: Arabidopsis h-type thioredoxins as a case study[END_REF]. Remarkably, while generally reduced by NTR, some TRXh isoforms are also reduced by the alternative thiol reduction systems glutathione (GSH)/glutaredoxin (GRX) (Gelhaye et al. 2003;Reichheld et al. 2007;[START_REF] Koh | An atypical catalytic mechanism involving three cysteines of thioredoxin[END_REF][START_REF] Meng | A membrane-associated thioredoxin required for plant growth moves from cell to cell, suggestive of a role in intercellular communication[END_REF]. For example, in Arabidopsis and poplar, TRXh9 is reduced through a disulfide cascade mechanism involving the transient glutathionylation of a Cys located in the N-terminal extension of TRXh9 [START_REF] Koh | An atypical catalytic mechanism involving three cysteines of thioredoxin[END_REF].

Only a few functions have been assigned to TRXh isoforms based on gene expression and genetic studies. Tissue-specific gene expression analyses of TRXh isoforms have revealed overlapping expression patterns in Arabidopsis [START_REF] Reichheld | The multigenic family of thioredoxin h in Arabidopsis thaliana: specific expression and stress response[END_REF]Belin et al. 2015). Overlapping gene expression between TRXh isoforms is likely explaining the lack of phenotype of most of the trxh knock-out mutants analyzed so far (our personal data). However, the characterization of a ntra ntrb double mutant deficient in the reduction of TRXh isoforms has revealed several plant development functions like pollen fitness, seed development, and plant growth (Reichheld et al. 2007). Moreover, it also shed light on cross talks acting between TRX and GRX systems in flower development and hormonal signaling (Reichheld et al. 2007;Marty et al. 2009;Bashandy et al. 2009Bashandy et al. , 2010)). Interestingly, the TRXh5 isoform is specifically involved in pathogen response pathways. TRXh5 is a major actor of plant immunity, regulating the oligomeric state of the non-pathogenesis-related protein expressor NPR1, a master regulator of the systemic acquired resistance (SAR). NPR1 normally exists in the cytosol as a thiolbound oligomer. Upon pathogen challenge or treatment with salicylic acid, TRXh5 is upregulated [START_REF] Laloi | The Arabidopsis cytosolic thioredoxin h5 gene induction by oxidative stress and its W-box-mediated response to pathogen elicitor[END_REF]Tada et al. 2008). TRXh5 then reduces NPR1 oligomers resulting in monomer release, translocation to the nucleus, and regulation of defense gene expression associated with both local and systemic resistance. Consequently, a trxh5 knock-out mutant is impaired in establishing a SAR and is therefore more susceptible to pathogen infection (Tada et al. 2008). More recently, Kneeshaw et al. (2014) have shown that TRXh5 acts in the SAR signaling by selective NPR1 protein S-denitrosylation. TRXh acting as denitrosylase has been additionally shown in ntra mutants in which higher levels of S-nitrosylated proteins were found (Tada et al. 2008).

TRXh5 is also involved in the plant tolerance to the necrotrophic fungal pathogen Cochliobolus victoriae. The redox mechanism involves binding of victorin, the virulent effector of C. victoriae, to the first Cys residue in the TRXh5 active site [START_REF] Sweat | Thioredoxin h5 is required for victorin sensitivity mediated by a CC-NBS-LRR gene in Arabidopsis[END_REF][START_REF] Lorang | Thioredoxin redox regulates ATPase activity of magnesium chelatase CHLI subunit and modulates redox-mediated signaling in tetrapyrrole biosynthesis and homeostasis of reactive oxygen species in pea plants[END_REF]. Victorin binding to TRXh5 activates the locus orchestrating victorin effects protein LOV1, an Arabidopsis susceptibility protein, and elicits a resistance-like response that confers disease susceptibility. [START_REF] Lorang | Thioredoxin redox regulates ATPase activity of magnesium chelatase CHLI subunit and modulates redox-mediated signaling in tetrapyrrole biosynthesis and homeostasis of reactive oxygen species in pea plants[END_REF] proposed that victorin mimics a conventional pathogen virulence effector and confers virulence to C. victoriae solely because it incites plant defense mechanisms.

Specifically, in self-incompatible species, TRXh isoforms (called THL in Brassica napus) have been involved in recognition and rejection of self-incompatible pollen through redox regulation of a key actor (S-locus receptor kinase) of the selfincompatible signaling pathway [START_REF] Bower | Two members of the thioredoxin-h family interact with the kinase domain of a Brassica S locus receptor kinase[END_REF]Cabrillac et al. 2001;[START_REF] Ivanov | Endocytosis and endosomal regulation of the S-receptor kinase during the self-incompatibility response in Brassica oleracea[END_REF]. While this specific regulatory mechanism has been questioned [START_REF] Yamamoto | In planta assessment of the role of thioredoxin h proteins in the regulation of S-locus receptor kinase signaling in transgenic Arabidopsis[END_REF], works in other self-incompatible species (i.e., Solanaceae and Poaceae) have also established a role of TRXh isoforms in self-incompatible pollen recognition, while acting by other ways [START_REF] Li | A self-fertile mutant of Phalaris produces an S protein with reduced thioredoxin activity[END_REF][START_REF] Juárez-Díaz | A novel thioredoxin h is secreted in Nicotiana alata and reduces S-RNase in vitro[END_REF].

A function of cytosolic TRX isoforms in thermotolerance has been suggested. When overexpressed in plants, TRXh3 and the multidomain TRX tetratricoredoxin (TDX) enhance heat stress tolerance due to their chaperone activities [START_REF] Park | Heat-shock and redox-dependent functional switching of an h-type Arabidopsis thioredoxin from a disulfide reductase to a molecular chaperone[END_REF][START_REF] Lee | Heat-shock dependent oligomeric status alters the function of a plant-specific thioredoxin-like protein, AtTDX[END_REF]). Interestingly, TDX was shown to interact with the singlestranded DNA binding protein Ssb2, a yeast heat-shock protein 70 chaperone, suggesting that the TDX-dependent heat stress tolerance might be related to a co-chaperone activity [START_REF] Vignols | Redox control of Hsp70-Co-chaperone interaction revealed by expression of a thioredoxin-like Arabidopsis protein[END_REF]. Of note, none of the trxh3 and tdx knock-out mutants does exhibit a heat stress sensitive phenotype, suggesting that this function is compensated by other proteins sharing chaperone activities.

Nuclear Thioredoxin System

Although several TRX isoforms have been identified in the nucleus, evidence of their functions in the nucleus is still scarce. Nucleoredoxins (NRX) are multidomain proteins consisting of two or three TRX-like domains fused to a Cys-rich C-terminal domain. In Zea mays and Arabidopsis, characterized NRX isoforms share a dual cytosolic/nuclear localization and harbor putative nuclear localization signals [START_REF] Laughner | A novel nuclear member of the thioredoxin superfamily[END_REF]Marchal et al. 2014). On the other hand, a cotton NRX orthologue (GbNRX1) was preferentially found in the secretory pathway and the apoplast (see below) (Li et al. 2016). Both NRX isoforms (NRX1 and 2) found in Arabidopsis exhibit disulfide reduction activities. While NRX1 can be reduced by NTR in vitro, constituting a functional TRX reduction pathway in the nucleus (Marchal et al. 2014), the NRX2 physiological reducer is still unknown. Genetic studies have assigned a function of NRX1 in plant fertility. It is required for pollen tube navigation through the pistil, guiding it to the ovule [START_REF] Qin | Penetration of the stigma and style elicits a novel transcriptome in pollen tubes, pointing to genes critical for growth in a pistil[END_REF]Marchal et al. 2014). Still it is not yet established, if this function is dependent on the nuclear or the cytosolic localization of NRX1 and what is the pathway involved.

Recent works have involved NRX1 in plant immunity responses [START_REF] Kneeshaw | Nucleoredoxin guards against oxidative stress by protecting antioxidant enzymes[END_REF]. NRX1 gene expression is responsive to salicylic acid in Arabidopsis and poplar and is compromised in the SAR induced by pathogenic bacterial strains of Pseudomonas syringae [START_REF] Kneeshaw | Nucleoredoxin guards against oxidative stress by protecting antioxidant enzymes[END_REF]. Upon pathogen trigger, NRX1 is induced and binds target enzymes of major hydrogen peroxide scavenging pathways, including catalases. Mutant nrx1 plants displayed reduced catalase activity and are hypersensitive to oxidative stress. Remarkably, catalase is maintained in a reduced state by interaction with NRX1, a process necessary for its hydrogen peroxide scavenging activity. Thus, the works by [START_REF] Kneeshaw | Nucleoredoxin guards against oxidative stress by protecting antioxidant enzymes[END_REF] conclude that hydrogen peroxide scavenging enzymes, like catalase, experience oxidative distress in reactive oxygen species (ROS)-induced environments and require reductive protection from NRX1 for optimal activity.

A pea orthologue of mitochondrial o-type TRX (PsTRXo1) shows a dual mitochondrial and nuclear localization [START_REF] Martí | Mitochondrial and nuclear localization of a novel pea thioredoxin: identification of its mitochondrial target proteins[END_REF]. Recent works by [START_REF] Calderón | Thioredoxin (Trxo1) interacts with proliferating cell nuclear antigen (PCNA) and its overexpression affects the growth of tobacco cell culture[END_REF] show that PsTRXo1 interacts with proliferating cell nuclear antigen (PCNA) and that its overexpression in cell suspension affects cell growth and cell cycle progression. While coinciding with an upregulation of PCNA protein, the effect of PsTRXo1 expression on cell growth is not yet fully established [START_REF] Calderón | Thioredoxin (Trxo1) interacts with proliferating cell nuclear antigen (PCNA) and its overexpression affects the growth of tobacco cell culture[END_REF].

TRXh isoforms accumulate in the nuclear compartment in tissues subjected to oxidative stress or genotoxic conditions (Serrato et al. 2001;Serrato and Cejudo 2003;Sarkar et al. 2005;[START_REF] Pulido | An antioxidant redox system in the nucleus of wheat seed cells suffering oxidative stress[END_REF]) or during seed germination in which the NTR-TRXh system serves as a source of reducing power to regenerate 1-Cys [START_REF] Pulido | An antioxidant redox system in the nucleus of wheat seed cells suffering oxidative stress[END_REF]).

Mitochondrial Thioredoxin System

Although TRX and TRX reductase activities were reported in plant mitochondrial extracts two decades ago [START_REF] Konrad | Mitochondria of plant leaves contain two thioredoxins. Completion of the thioredoxin profile of higher plants[END_REF][START_REF] Banze | Organelle-specific NADPH thioredoxin reductase in plant mitochondria[END_REF], the first mitochondrial TRX system has been identified in Arabidopsis by [START_REF] Laloi | Identification and characterization of a mitochondrial thioredoxin system in plants[END_REF].

In Arabidopsis, two NTR isoforms are localized in the mitochondria (NTRA and NTRB). Both of them reduce TRXo1, one of the two o-type TRX isoforms in Arabidopsis, which is targeted to the mitochondrial matrix through a cleavable N-terminal signal [START_REF] Laloi | Identification and characterization of a mitochondrial thioredoxin system in plants[END_REF][START_REF] Reichheld | AtNTRB is the major mitochondrial thioredoxin reductase in Arabidopsis thaliana[END_REF]. Mitochondrial localization of TRXo1 was later confirmed in other plants including poplar and pea [START_REF] Gelhaye | A specific form of thioredoxin h occurs in plant mitochondria and regulates the alternative oxidase[END_REF][START_REF] Martí | Mitochondrial and nuclear localization of a novel pea thioredoxin: identification of its mitochondrial target proteins[END_REF]. Moreover, in poplar and Arabidopsis, the TRXh2 isoform has been identified in mitochondria, although its submitochondrial localizations have not been addressed yet [START_REF] Gelhaye | A specific form of thioredoxin h occurs in plant mitochondria and regulates the alternative oxidase[END_REF][START_REF] Meng | A membrane-associated thioredoxin required for plant growth moves from cell to cell, suggestive of a role in intercellular communication[END_REF].

Proteomic affinity approaches have been used to identify potential mitochondrial TRX using purified mitochondrial protein extracts [START_REF] Balmer | Thioredoxin links redox to the regulation of fundamental processes of plant mitochondria[END_REF][START_REF] Martí | Mitochondrial and nuclear localization of a novel pea thioredoxin: identification of its mitochondrial target proteins[END_REF][START_REF] Marchand | Thioredoxin targets in Arabidopsis roots[END_REF][START_REF] Yoshida | Systematic exploration of thioredoxin target proteins in plant mitochondria[END_REF]). These approaches have been highly valuable to identify putative TRX mitochondrial targets and open the field for further validation. Nevertheless, a few enzymatic and genetic evidences have further validated those interactions yet. In pea, TRXo1 has been shown to be an efficient reducer of the PRXII-F, suggesting that TRXo is involved in mitochondrial ROS metabolism [START_REF] Barranco-Medina | Hexameric oligomerization of mitochondrial peroxiredoxin PrxIIF and formation of an ultrahigh affinity complex with its electron donor thioredoxin Trx-o[END_REF]. Pea TRXh2 and Arabidopsis TRXo1 were also shown to affect in vitro the dimerization state of the alternative oxidase (AOX) by reducing a heterodimeric disulfide (Cys78-Cys78), and further restoring the AOX activity [START_REF] Gelhaye | A specific form of thioredoxin h occurs in plant mitochondria and regulates the alternative oxidase[END_REF][START_REF] Yoshida | Systematic exploration of thioredoxin target proteins in plant mitochondria[END_REF]. Nevertheless, evidence is lacking to clearly favor the interpretation of a regulatory function over that of a maintenance function, i.e., to avoid Cys over-oxidation upon ROS exposure. Moreover, genetic evidences are lacking to support this redox regulation in vivo.

Both proteomic and in vitro works have pinpointed a potent TRX-dependent regulation of tricarboxylic acid (TCA) cycle enzymes [START_REF] Balmer | Thioredoxin links redox to the regulation of fundamental processes of plant mitochondria[END_REF][START_REF] Martí | Mitochondrial and nuclear localization of a novel pea thioredoxin: identification of its mitochondrial target proteins[END_REF][START_REF] Yoshida | Systematic exploration of thioredoxin target proteins in plant mitochondria[END_REF][START_REF] Schmidtmann | Redox regulation of Arabidopsis mitochondrial citrate synthase[END_REF]. Thiol switching of mitochondrial citrate synthase and isocitrate dehydrogenase activity were reported in vitro [START_REF] Schmidtmann | Redox regulation of Arabidopsis mitochondrial citrate synthase[END_REF][START_REF] Yoshida | Mitochondrial isocitrate dehydrogenase is inactivated upon oxidation and reactivated by thioredoxin-dependent reduction in Arabidopsis[END_REF], while thiol switching of malate dehydrogenase activity was found unchanged (Yoshida and Hisabori 2016a;[START_REF] Huang | Self-protection of Arabidopsis cytosolic malate dehydrogenase against oxidative stress[END_REF]. In order to further address the function of TRX on the TCA cycle in vivo, [START_REF] Daloso | Thioredoxin, a master regulator of the tricarboxylic acid cycle in plant mitochondria[END_REF] have characterized Arabidopsis knock-out mutants for mitochondrial TRXo1 (trxo1) and mitochondrial NTR (double mutant ntra ntrb). Both mutants were affected in mitochondrial metabolic fingerprints and flux patterns, suggesting a role of the matrix TRX system in regulating metabolism in vivo. In a complementary approach, [START_REF] Daloso | Thioredoxin, a master regulator of the tricarboxylic acid cycle in plant mitochondria[END_REF] evaluated in vitro activities of TCA cycle and associated enzymes in mutants deficient in mitochondrial TRX. Among TCA cycle enzyme activities affected in the mutants, both succinate dehydrogenase (SDH) and fumarase (FUM) were proposed to be deactivated by reduced TRXo1, suggesting that TRXo is acting as a direct regulator of carbon flow through the TCA cycle [START_REF] Daloso | Thioredoxin, a master regulator of the tricarboxylic acid cycle in plant mitochondria[END_REF].

Endomembrane Thioredoxin System

While TRXh were previously described as cytosolic isoforms, more recent works have established alternative cellular localizations for some members of this family.

In Arabidopsis, [START_REF] Traverso | Roles of N-terminal fatty acid acylations in membrane compartment partitioning: Arabidopsis h-type thioredoxins as a case study[END_REF] have reexamined the subcellular localizations of members of the subtype II and III. By using a combination of predictive software and in vitro assays, they showed that members of the subtype II (TRXh2, h7, h8) and III (TRXh9, h10, atypical CxxS2) are subjected to N-terminal (Gly2 and Cys4) fatty acid acylations (N-myristoylation and S-palmitoylation). The role of these posttranslational modifications is to target proteins to membranes. Accordingly, TRX::GFP fusions revealed that myristoylation targeted proteins to the endomembrane system including the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) and Golgi, and that partitioning between this membrane compartment and the cytosol correlated with the catalytic efficiency of the N-myristoyltransferase acting at the N-terminus of the TRX. Moreover, a palmitoylatable Cys residue (only present in subtype III) flanking the N-myristoylation site was crucial to target proteins to the plasma membrane [START_REF] Traverso | Roles of N-terminal fatty acid acylations in membrane compartment partitioning: Arabidopsis h-type thioredoxins as a case study[END_REF]. Independently, [START_REF] Meng | A membrane-associated thioredoxin required for plant growth moves from cell to cell, suggestive of a role in intercellular communication[END_REF] showed that N-myristoylation and S-palmitoylation of TRXh9 at Gly2/Cys4 residues is associated with the capacity of the protein to move from cell-to-cell, suggesting a role of this TRXh isoform in intercellular communication and cell growth.

In spite of the presence of distinct TRXh isoforms in the endomembrane system, their role is still unknown. While they might sustain other thiol oxidoreductases (i.e., protein disulfide isomerases, ER oxidases, etc.) in disulfide reduction/isomerization in the ER, no putative target proteins have been identified yet in these compartments. Concerning their reduction pathway, neither putative endomembrane nor plasma membrane NTR have been identified so far. Alternatively, GSH of the ER could constitute a physiological reducer of endomembrane TRX, as shown for subtype III isoform TRXh9 in poplar (Gelhaye et al. 2003;[START_REF] Koh | An atypical catalytic mechanism involving three cysteines of thioredoxin[END_REF]. Of note, an atypical TRXh member of subtype III (CxxS2) is acting as a protein disulfide isomerase in vitro, which might be physiologically relevant [START_REF] Serrato | AtCXXS: atypical members of the Arabidopsis thaliana thioredoxin h family with a remarkably high disulfide isomerase activity[END_REF].

Finally, an NRX1 isoform (GbNRX1) has recently been involved in the apoplast immune response to the pathogenic fungus Verticillium dahliae. Here, GbNRX1 functions in apoplastic ROS scavenging after the ROS burst that occurs upon recognition of the pathogen (Li et al. 2016).

Conclusions and Perspectives

In this review, we have discussed emerging topics of higher plant TRX. It is becoming clear that TRX form an elaborate network in plants being important to integrate metabolism, stress responses, development, and gene expression in a fluctuating environment. The chloroplast contains light-and NADPH-dependent TRX systems, which are combined via the redox balance of 2-Cys PRX to allow a cooperative control of chloroplast functions and photoautotrophic growth in higher plants. Extraplastidial TRX have been found to play critical and integrative roles in controlling pathogen defense and abiotic stress tolerance of plants interfacing with other signals such as ROS and phytohormones. Additional emerging fields in TRX functions are the regulation of plant development and the interaction of TRX with

  ago during the Cambrian-Early Ordovocian period (515 to 470 mya), plants left the prehistoric water to inhabit the crust-forming microorganisms soil, through the evolution of a variety of new adaptive organs and physiological systems, in which bryophytes were the first plants to colonize land (Figure I.1)

Figure I. 1 .

 1 Figure I.1. Key events in the evolution of land plants.

Figure I. 2 .

 2 Figure I.2. Fossil evidence of the history of root system evolution. This figure shows some of the most important and best-preserved fossil records that support the different hypotheses, regarding the evolution of the root system. (A) The rhizoid-based rooting system of Nothia aphylla from the Devonian period (420-359 mya), and its (B) reconstruction (Adapted from Kenrick et al., 2014). (C-D) Intermediated root system of Zosterophyllum shengfengense of the lower Devonian (From Kenrick et al., 2014) and finally (E) fossil record of stigmarian rootlets of the ancient lycophyta trees and the recreation of their root system adopted from Hetherington et al., 2016. Red arrows indicated either the rhizoids or the root system. Scale bar in (A) = 1 mm, (B) = 1.5 mm, (C) = 10 mm, (D) = 20mm, and in (F) = 3 m.

Figure I. 3 .

 3 Figure I.3. Root system types in Angiosperms.

Figure I. 5 .

 5 Figure I.5. Root hair development. (A) Genetic control of the root hair development in H and N cells known as trichoblast and atrichoblast respectively. The specialization of the epidermal cells relies on its position with respect the adjacent cortical cells, and the genetic control that determine the activity and expression of genes involved in the development of the root hair, such as GL2 (Figure adapted from Salazar-Henao et al 2016). In part (B) is illustrated the accumulation of the AtRop proteins (Green) that define the site in the plasma membrane in which the root hair will grow. Scale bar = 25 µm (Adapted from Molendijk et al 2001). Finally, in (C) is shown the pH distribution within the development of the root hair (Adapted from[START_REF] Bibikova | Localized changes in apoplastic and cytoplasmic pH are associated with root hair development in Arabidopsis thaliana[END_REF].

Figure I. 6 .

 6 Figure I.6. Lateral root formation. (A) Different stages of the LR development that is characterized by the periclinal and anticlinal division of xylem pole pericycle cells, that will cross several root layers until emerging from the epidermis (adapted from Casimiro et al 2003). (B) The activity of the gene expression marker DR5-luciferase that indicate the localization of the oscillation zone and pre-branch sites (Adapted from Moreno-Risueno et al 2010). (C) Schematic representation of the oscillation zone and the early stages of lateral root development (Adapted from Van Norman et al., 2013).

Figure I. 7 .

 7 Figure I.7. Classical auxin assays. (A) Avena test developed by Wen 1928, adopted from Enders and Strader 2015. (B and C) Modern assay for testing auxin effect and functions. This assay consists in placing the plants in medium containing a desired concentration of the auxin compound. After a

Figure I. 8 .

 8 Figure I.8. IAA synthesis by Tryptophan dependent pathways. IAA can be synthesized from four precursors derived from tryptophane: IPA, IAM, TAM, and IAOX. Several enzymes involved in the different pathways have been discovered and characterized. However, there are still several aspects that remain to be elucidated (?) (Adapted from Mano and Nemoto 2012).

Figure I. 9 .

 9 Figure I.9. Auxin transport in Arabidopsis root. The auxin distribution within the root is mediated by the family of transporters PIN, AUX, and ABC which are localized in different parts within the root tissue, such as in the meristem and lateral root primordia to ensure the proper auxin maxima required for root development. PINs are well known to be efflux auxin carriers while AUX proteins are involved in the influx of auxin. Some ABCs have dual activity depending on the cellular environment. Figure adapted from Petrášek and Friml 2009.

Figure I. 10 .

 10 Figure I.10. Auxin signaling mechanisms. (A) Simplification of the molecular events that are triggered by auxin signaling depending on the TIR1 and Aux/IAA repressor proteins. (B) Auxin induces cell-cycle genes by targeting S-Phase Kinase-Associated Protein 2 (ASKP2) (C) The suggested auxin signaling pathway depending on ABP1. Adapted from Powers and Strader 2016.

  development depends on the SCF (SKP, CULLIN, F-BOX), TIR1/AFB (TRANSPORT INHIBITOR RESPONSE1/AUXIN-RELATED F-BOX PROTEINS), and Aux/IAA auxin receptor system (Figure I.10A)

Figure I. 11 .

 11 Figure I.11. Auxin reported lines. DR5 is a transcriptional marker for auxin activity, that consists in the canonical TGTCTC sequences presented in the promoters of the auxin-inducible genes fused with protein reporters such as GUS and GFP. DR5v2 is a new version of the DR5, that in addition to TGTCTC fused with GFP DR5v2, also hold an extra TGTCGG conserved sequences fused with tomato fluorescent protein, which improve the observation of cellular sites in which auxin is activated. Finally, the new reporter line R2D2 that is based in the DII domain of the Aux/IAA proteins, which is degraded by the proteasome in the presence of auxin, allowing the visualization of the auxin signaling in real time. QC: quiescent center.

Figure I. 12 .

 12 Figure I.12. Peroxisomal conversion of IBA. In (A) is shown the β-oxidation reactions that take place in the peroxisome to produce the active IAA, and enzymes involved in the IBA metabolism. (B) The conversion of IBA to IAA that is localized in the root cap has been shown to be an important source of auxin for the root development. (C) Strong evidence of the critical roles that IBA perform in the root development can be observed clearly in the mutants of the IBA conversion, such as ibr1ibr3ibr10 and ech2.

Figure

  Figure I.13. ROS production.Reactive oxygen species are produced either as by-products of the metabolism of several subcellular compartments, such as electron transfer chains in chloroplast and mitochondria, oxidation reactions in the peroxisome, or by the enzymatic activity of NADPH oxidases (RBOH) in the apoplast. This leads to the formation of the H 2 O 2 , that is able to act as a second messenger to modulate gene expression, for example by altering activity of transcription factors (purple). Barrel in yellow represent receptor proteins and red barrels represent receptor systems. Adapted fromNoctor et al., 2018.

Figure I. 14 .

 14 Figure I.14. Examples of systemic and localized ROS production as a signal compound. Yellow arrows indicated the transmission of a light-dependent signal to distal leaves resulting in localized ROS production. The damage produced by different factors such aspathogen attack leads to a signal that is perceived by distal leaves, inducing ROS production to prevent a possible attack. Adapted fromNoctor et al., 2018.

  biotic and abiotic stress conditions have different roles during plant development (Figure I.14).

Figure I. 15

 15 Figure I.15. O 2 .-and H 2 O 2 accumulation in different root zones. MZ = Meristem zone, EZ = Elongation zone, and DZ = differentiation zone.

Figure I. 16 .

 16 Figure I.16. Control of ROS homeostasis by plant scavenging systems. Several pathways to control ROS have been evolved in plants. Key player of the detoxification of reactive oxygen species is glutathione, that acts as an electron donor to two complex systems the GPX and the AsA-GSH cycles and ultimately leads to the reduction of H 2 O 2 to water. ASC = ascorbate, GR = glutathione reductase, DHAR = dehydroascorbate reductase, APX = ascorbate peroxidases, CAT = catalase, GPX = glutathione peroxidases, PRX = peroxiredoxins, TRXox, oxidized thioredoxin. TRXred, reduced thioredoxin, NTR = NADPH-thioredoxin reductase, FTR = ferredoxinthioredoxin reductase, GST = glutathione S-transferase, GSH = reduced glutathione, GSSG = glutathione disulfide. Adapted fromMhamdi et al., 2010.

Figure

  Figure I.17. H 2 O 2 -induced thiol modifications and scavenging activities.H 2 O 2 can react with thiol residues of proteins and produce several types of modifications. Primarily, oxidation of cysteine leads to the formation of sulfenic acid, which is an intermediate for overoxidated forms sulfinic acid and sulfonic acid. As sulfinic acid can be reduced eventually by sulfiredoxins, sulfonic acids are irreversible oxidations. Sulfenic acid can also lead to the formation of disulfide bonds, or react with NO or GSH to form S-nitrosylated and S-glutathionylated residues. Those types of modifications can be reduced back to the original state, in a process that relies on the thiol reduction systems dependent on GRX and TRX. Other types of thiol modifications, (e.g. S-sulfhydrylation) exist, but are not represented here (Adapted fromMartins et al., 2018).

Figure I. 18

 18 Figure I.18. NADPH-dependent thioredoxin reductase (NTR) and Glutathione-Glutaredoxin systems. Nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate (NADPH) is the source of reducer power to feed two of the major thiol reduction systems in plants and several organisms.

  . It is synthesized by two ATP-dependent reactions mediated by the enzymes [γglutamylcysteine synthetase (γ-ECS or GSH1), and glutathione synthase (GSH-S or GSH2)(Figure I.20). In the first step, the plastidial enzyme GSH1 catalyzes the formation of γ-glutamylcysteine by the formation of a peptide bond between the amino acids glutamic acid (Glu) and the sulfur-containing amino acid cysteine (Cys). The second and last step in the formation of glutathione, consists in the catalysis of an amide bond between γ-glutamylcysteine with the amino acid glycine (Gly) in a process mediated by the activity of the dual-target plastidial and cytosolic enzyme GSH2 to finally produce glutathione(Figure I.20)

Figure I. 19 .

 19 Figure I.19. Subcellular localization of NTR in plants. Different plant TRX isoforms (yellow) are represented in their respective subcellular localization. When established, their respective reducers are represented (blue). Some key TRX target proteins (green) as well as the respective regulated functions (red spots) are also shown. NRX = Nucleoredoxins, LOV1 = Locus orchestrating victorin effects protein, NPR1 = Non-pathogenesis-related protein expressor, Ssb = Single-stranded DNA binding protein.Adpated fromThormählen et al., 2018.

Figure I. 20 .

 20 Figure I.20. Glutathione synthesis and distribution.The first steps of the synthesis of GSH involved the formation of the γglutamylcysteine. This reaction is catalyzed by the chloroplastic enzyme γ-ECS, from which it can either be exported to other compartments or proceed with the second reaction mediated by GSH-S to produce glutathione. As it can be noticed from the diagram, several aspects of its transport remain to be elucidated. OPT, CLT, and MRP family of carriers are determinant for the distribution of glutathione to subcellular compartments. γ -EC(S), γ -glutamylcysteine (synthetase); BAG, Bcl2-associated anathogene; CYT, cytosol; PER, peroxisome; GSH-S, glutathione synthetase; GR, glutathione reductase; GSSG, glutathione disulfide, CLT, chloroquinone resistance transporter-like transporter; MIT, mitochondrion; MRP, multidrug resistance-associated protein; OPT, oligopeptide transporter. Adapted fromNoctor et al., 2012.

  different phenotypes presented in plants damage in the biosynthesis of glutathione and studies of the function of glutathione in plants, demonstrated the broad number of critical functions in which glutathione is involved (Figure I.21). This is mainly due for its capacity to control several pathways by different mechanisms and its distribution (Figure I.20).

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  Figure I.21. Glutathione functions.

  there are named from 4CXXC1 to 4CXXC13. Finally, the last class of glutaredoxins are composed by CPFC1, CPFC2, CPFC3, CPFA3, CPFA4, and CPFA5 (Figure I.22) (Meyer

Figure I. 22 .

 22 Figure I.22. Glutaredoxin family.In this scheme is shown the classification of the members that composed the family of glutaredoxin. In Arabidopsis, there are 50 genes that encode to glutaredoxins, which are divided into 5 classes according to their amino acid sequence. Figure adapted fromBelin et al., 2015.

  glutathione and auxin have been difficult to establish. For this reason, in the first chapter, I first focused in on the link between glutathione and the auxin pathway to control the root development. Secondly, I performed several genetic analysis to find players of the control of auxin by glutathione, and third I study the physiological meaning of glutathione controlling the auxin pathway.

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  Figure II.1.1. Glutathione specifically regulates root responses to IBA. (A) Total glutathione content in 8-day-old wild-type (Col-0), cad2, pad2 or zir1 seedlings grown on standard ½ MS medium. Wild-type plants grown in the presence of 0.5 mM BSO were also assayed (BSO). Data represent the means of 3 biological repetitions. (B) Emerged lateral root density of 10-day-old wild-type (Col-0), cad2 or pad2 plants grown on standard ½ MS medium and wild-type plants grown in the presence of 0.5 mM BSO (n≥15). (C) Emerged LR and LR primordia density of 8-day-old wildtype plants grown on standard ½ MS medium (control), or in the presence of different combinations of BSO 0.5 mM, IBA 10 µM and/or IAA 50 nM, as mentioned (n≥15). (D) Developmental stages of LR primordia of 6-day-old wild-type (Col-0), cad2 or pad2 seedlings 48 hours after gravi-stimulation on standard ½ MS medium; wild-type plants grown in the presence of 0.5 mM BSO were also assayed (BSO). Data indicate the percentage of LRP in each developmental stage (n≥16) and are representative of 3 independent experiments. (E) Pictures of representative 8-day-old wild-type plants grown on standard ½ MS medium, or in the presence of different combinations of BSO 0.5 mM, IBA 10 µM and/or IAA 50 nM, as mentioned. (F) Quantification of root hair length of 8day-old wild-type (Col-0), cad2 or pad2 mutant plants grown on standard ½ MS medium (Control), or in the presence of 50 nM IAA (IAA) or 10 µM IBA (IBA), . Wild-type plants in the presence of 0.5 mM BSO (BSO) were also assayed (n≥100). Histograms represent the mean and error bars represent the standard deviation. Asterisks indicate a significant difference, based on a two-tailed Student t-test (*=P≤0.01, **= P≤0.001 ).

  BSO has apparently no effect(Figure II.1.2A). As expected, exogenous IAA treatment for 24 hours induces auxin response in the whole root tip and root epidermis, and the presence of BSO has again no effect on this distribution. In response to IBA, GUS staining increases in the distal meristem and strongly appears specifically in the trichoblast epidermal cell files in the basal part of the meristem, up to the differentiation zones. In the presence of BSO, this IBA-dependent strong signal in the basal meristem almost disappears while the signal in the distal meristem remains strong.

Figure II.1. 2 .

 2 Figure II.1.2. Glutathione is critical for the IBA-derived IAA signalling in the basal meristem. (A) Representative Pictures of 8-day-old GUS-stained DR5:GUS plants grown on standard ½ MS medium (Control) or in the presence of 0.5 mM BSO (BSO), after a 24hour long treatment with 10 µM IBA or 50 nM IAA as precised (n≥7). (B) Quantification of GFP and Tomato fluorescent signals from 8-day-old expressing the DR5:n3EGFP/DR5v2:ntdTomato double reporter, and grown in the same conditions as A (n≥7).

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  Figure II.1.4. IAA transport is not the target of glutathione. (A) Emerged lateral root density of 10-day-old wild-type (Col-0), aux1 or pin2 plants grown on standard ½ MS medium, or in the presence of different combinations of BSO 0.5 mM and IBA 10 µM (n≥10). (B) Emerged lateral root density of 10-day-old wild-type (Col-0) grown on standard ½ MS medium, supplemented or not with the transport inhibitors NPA 1 µM or NOA 1 µM (n≥15). Histograms represent the mean and error bars represent the standard deviation. Asterisks indicate a significant difference, based on a two-tailed Student t-test (**P<0,001).

  Figure II.1.6A shows that ibr1, ibr10 and ibr1 ibr3 ibr10 mutants are fully insensitive to exogenous IBA in our conditions, thus making impossible to genetically address the putative dependency of IBR1 and IBR10 to glutathione levels. However, we can notice that in ech2 and ibr3 mutants, LR are still hyposensitive to IBA in the presence of BSO. Again, this suggests that ECH2 and IBR3 are not regulated in a glutathione-dependent manner. In order to detect an eventual defect in gene expression in glutathione-deficient plants, we analysed the expression level of genes involved in IBA-to-IAA conversion (Figure II.1.6B). Surprisingly, ECH2, IBR3, IBR10, AIM1 and PED1

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  Figure II.1.5. IBA homeostasis does not display sensitivity to glutathione. (A) Uptake of [ 3 H]IBA or [ 3 H]IAA by wild type (Col), pen3-4, cad2-1, pcs1 or abcc10 excised root tips of 8-day-old plants. Data represent eight replicates with five root tips per genotype and per replicate. (B) Emerged lateral root density of 10-day-old wildtype (Col-0), pdr8, pdr9 or pdr8 pdr9 plants grown on standard ½ MS medium, or in the presence of different combinations of BSO 0.5 mM and IBA 10 µM (n≥15). (B) Emerged lateral root density of 10-day-old wild-type (Col-0), ugt74e2, ugt75d1 or ugt74e2 ugt75d1 plants grown on standard ½ MS medium, or in the presence of different combinations of BSO 0.5 mM and IBA 10 µM (n≥15). Histograms represent the mean and error bars represent the standard deviation. Asterisks indicate a significant difference, based on a two-tailed Student t-test (**P<0,001).

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  Figure II.1.6. IBA conversion to IAA does not display sensitivity to glutathione. (A) Emerged lateral root density of 10-day-old wild-type (Col-0), ibr1, ibr3, ibr10, ibr1 ibr3 ibr10 or ech2 plants grown on standard ½ MS medium, or in the presence of different combinations of BSO 0.5 mM and IBA 10 µM (n≥15). (B) Expression levels (qRT-PCR) of IBR1, IBR3, IBR10, ECH2, AIM1 and PED1 genes in cad2 relative to wild-type 8-day-old plants grown on standard ½ MS medium. Data represent three independent replicates with 20 plants per replicate. Histograms represent the mean and error bars represent the standard deviation. Asterisks indicate a significant difference, based on a two-tailed Student t-test (*P<0,01;**P<0,001).

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  FigureII.1.7C shows that the induction of the expression of marker genes in response to

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  Figure II.1.7. Glutathione and IBA are specifically required for RH growth response to low phosphate. (A) RH length in 8-day-old wild-type (Col-0), cad2 or ibr1 ibr3 ibr10 plants grown on standard ½ MS medium in the absence or the presence of the PGPR Mesorhizobium loti (see material and methods). (B) RH length in 8-day-old wild-type (Col-0), cad2 or ibr1 ibr3 ibr10 plants grown on 1/3 MS medium supplemented with 500 µM (NaCl, control) or 500 µM mM (NaH 2 PO 4 , minusP). (C) Expression levels (qRT-PCR) of PHT1, RNS1 and SPX1 low-phosphate responsive genes in wild-type (Col-0), cad2 or ibr1 ibr3 ibr10 8-day-old plants grown on 1/3 MS medium supplemented with 500 µM (NaCl, control) or 500 µM mM (NaH 2 PO 4 , minusP). Data represent three independent replicates with 20 plants per replicate and are normalised relatively to the wild-type value in control condition. Histograms represent the mean and error bars represent the standard deviation. Asterisks indicate a significant difference, based on a two-tailed Student t-test (*P<0,01;**P<0,001).

1995,

  Mutants aux1-21, pdr8 (Salk_000578), pdr9 (Salk_050885), ugt74e2 (Salk_091130), and ugt74d1 (Salk_011286) are Salk lines. Wild-type and mutant seeds were surface-sterilized by constant agitation with 0.05% SDS made on ethanol 70% (v/v) during 20 minutes. Thereafter, seeds were washed three times with ethanol 95% (v/v) and dried at room-temperature under sterile conditions. Seeds were placed on square Petri plates containing 50 ml of Murashige and Skoog medium diluted two fold (MS ½), and solidified with plant agar with a final concentration of 0.8% (w/v), without sucrose unless indicated. For the phosphorous deprivation experiments, we used MS 3/10 in which Pideficient plates contained 500µM NaCl, and control plates 500µM NaH 2 PO 4 as indicated inArnaud et al., 2014. For the examination of the root hair responses in the experiments with M. loti, seeds were placed vertically on standard MS ½ medium and after 5 days, seedlings were transferred to plates containing 0.1 OD of inoculum and root hair lengths were 1 0 6 quantified after 4 days of incubation. Plates with the inoculum were prepared according toPoitout et al., 2017. All experiments were carried out on in vitro conditions with 160 µE.m-2.s-1 light intensity (16/8) at 20 °C.

  reductase enzyme and NADPH to GSH. Total GSH is determined by the oxidation of GSH by 5,5′-dithio-bis(2-nitrobenzoic acid) (DTNB), that produce a yellow compound 5′-thio-2nitrobenzoic acid (TNB) which is detectable at 412 nm(Rahman et al., 2007). Extraction of glutathione was performed on 8 days seedlings. In each experiment, we used three independent biological repetitions in which each biological repetition consisted of 20 plants. using DR5v2 and the study of the redox state of glutathione with roGFP2 were performed by using a confocal laser scanning microscope Zeiss LSM 510 Meta (Carl Zeiss). Images were acquired in 16-bits with two average readings and using 10x lens. Confocal settings for DR5v2 were based onLiao et al., 2015. Settings and analyses for roGFP2 were based on the method published byMeyer et al., 2007, with small modifications. Excitation of roGFP2 was performed at 488 and 405 nm with a bandpass (BP) of 490-555 nm. Correction of the 405 nm for its background noise was performed by removing the fluorescence of the 405 nm collecting with a BP 420-480 nm.For the analysis with DR5v2, sterilized seeds were placed vertically in square plates containing standard MS ½ medium with either BSO 0.5mM (BSO) or without BSO (Control). After 7 days of growth, seedlings were transferred to plates containing the following treatments: BSO = 0.5mM, IBA= 10µM, IAA=50nM, and combination of each auxin with BSO. After incubation with those treatments for 24 hours, pictures were taken in the confocal microscope.Concerning the analyses with roGFP2, the reporter line was tested by performed a timeline experiment, that consisted in measuring the roGFP2 fluorescence during 10 minutes and then adding 1 mM of H 2 O 2 for 30 minutes. Thereafter, reduction of the roGFP2 line with 10 mM DTT was performed in order to verify the functionality of the reporter line. For testing the effect of auxin IBA on the glutathione redox status, seeds were placed vertically for 8 days in mediums MS ½, containing IBA 10µM or without IBA (Control). Pictures were analyzed using ImageJ following the protocol published byMeyer et al., 2007 and Morgan et al., 2011. activity was detected in root tissue from 8-days-old seedlings. The method is based on the work published byJefferson et al., 1987, and Malamy and Benfey, 1997, with small modifications. Plants were fixed on acetone 80% (v/v) at 20 °C for 20 minutes, were washed with a buffer solution containing 25mM Na 2 HPO 4 , 25mM NaH 2 PO 4 , 2% Triton (v/v), 1 mM K 3 Fe(CN) 6 , and 1 mM K 4 Fe(CN) 6 . Thereafter, seedlings were transferred to a new plate containing the buffer solution with 2mM of X-Gluc (5-bromo-4-chloro-3indolyl-β-D-glucuronidase) and vacuum infiltrated for 1 minute and then incubate at 37 °C for 1 hour. The reaction was stopped by bathing seedlings in ethanol 70% (v/v). Pictures were taken with a light microscope (Axioscop2, Zeiss) on the next day. The experiment protocol was the same as in DR5v2 experiments.Quantitative real-time PCR (qPCR)For the quantification of the level of expression of gene of interest, total RNA was extracted using TriZol reagent (GE Healthcare, Littler Chalfont, Buckinghamshire, UK), and the RNA was purified with RNeasy Plant Mini Kit (Promega, USA). cDNA was synthesized by the GoScript™ Reverse Transcription System (Promega, USA).Quantitative real-time PCR was done using Takyon™ No Rox SYBR® MasterMix dTTP Blue

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  this reason, a possible redundancy in their activity might occur in the absence of both proteins. The same remark is made for the IBA conjugation that dependent on UGT74E2 and UGT74D1. Thus, testing the auxin responses in combination with inhibitors of the whole family of ABCG and UGT in the presence of BSO, will confirm that both transport and conjugation are not involved in the control of IBA by glutathione.Genetic studies in known members of the IBA conversion to IAA were tested as well. However, those experiments that are based in the IBA responses in combination with BSO are hard to interprete due to the already IBA resistance of the IBA peroxisomal mutants. Another way to challenge the hypothesis that glutathione is controlling IBA through the peroxisomal conversion can be by testing that process with other tools, such as using the auxin reporter R2D2. R2D2 is a quantitative fluorescent reporter of the auxin signaling based in the DII-VENUS domain (see Introduction section 1.2.6)(Liao et al., 2015). This is examplified in figure II.1.8A, where incubation of plants with active auxin IAA induces the loss of the fluorescent in the DII-VENUS without affecting the internal control (mutated version mDII-ndTomato). A ratiometric quantification of DII-VENUS and mDII-ndTomato fluorescence allowed us to monitor the response to auxin incubation (figure II.1.8C). After IAA incubation, the mDII-ndTomato/DII-VENUS rapidly increases, which monitor the response to IAA uptake. The increase is much slower when plants are incubated with IBA, likely due to the time that takes IBA to be converted to IAA by the peroxisome. Then, we studied if the response to IAA and IBA are affected by BSO treatment. While BSO treatment prior to IAA incubation leads to a small increase of the ratio, a similar treatement has a slightly opposite effect on IBA incubation. This might indicate a negative effect of glutathione deficiency on IBA uptake or/and conversion.

  order to unravel the roles of glutaredoxins in lateral root primordia development, we conducted an in silico analysis of the expression profile of all members of the glutaredoxin family during the eight stages of the LRP formation. Members of the glutaredoxin groups I and II were particularly highly expressed during LRP development, while the majority of class III, the largest group of glutaredoxin composed by twenty-one members presented low accumulation of transcripts in each stage of the lateral root primordia formation (Figure II.2.1). However, ROXY18 and ROXY19 genes had a strong expression in early stages (I to VI) and then slightly decreased when the primordium reach the epidermis. ROXY1, ROXY5, ROXY7, and ROXY17 displayed differential expression, particularly ROXY5 and ROXY7 show a high level in the development that takes place within the endodermis and showed fluctuation in the last stages. Transcripts encoding members of the glutaredoxin class IV show contrasted level of expression during the LRP formation.Glutaredoxin 4CXXC2 was more expressed in stage VI and VII, while 4CXXC12 was high in the emergence stage. Finally, the four members of the group V were strongly expressed in all stages, particularly glutaredoxins CPFA4 and CPFC3. The differences in transcript accumulation profiles between genes of the glutaredoxin family suggest specific roles of GRX during the lateral root primordial development(Figure II.2.1).

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 21 Figure II.2.1 In silico glutaredoxins gene expression analysis during lateral root formation.The table shows the relative expression values from the BAR browser tool for each stage of lateral root primordial development[START_REF] Winter | An "Electronic Fluorescent Pictograph" browser for exploring and analyzing large-scale biological data sets[END_REF]. The data come from the work published by[START_REF] Voß | The circadian clock rephases during lateral root organ initiation in Arabidopsis thaliana[END_REF] The scheme representation of each stage of the LRP is adapted fromPeret et al., 2012.

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  Figure II.2.2. Glutaredoxins GRXS17 and ROXY19 mediate lateral root development. (A) Root system phenotype of grxs17 and roxy19 mutants, their respective wildtype controls (Col-0, No-0), and transgenic plants Pro35S:GRXS17 in grxs17 background (35S:GRXS17). Scale bar = 0.5 mm. (B) Primary root elongation and (C) Lateral root density were calculated from at least 16 10-day-old plants. Error bars indicate the standard deviation; asterisks indicated a P-value ≤ 0.001 using Welch's t-test statistical analysis.

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  Figure II.2.3. LR elongation rate and its response to abscisic acid depend on ROXY19. (A) LR elongation rate calculated between day 10 and day 14(n ≥ 9), (B) average length of emerged LR at 10 days (n ≥ 13), and (C) LR elongation rate in response to different concentrations of ABA (n ≥ 9). Error bars indicate the standard deviation; single asterisks indicated a P-value ≤ 0.01 while double asterisks indicated a P-value ≤ 0.001 using Welch's t-test statistical analysis.

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  Figure II.2.4. GRXS17 functions during LRP development. (A) LR and LRP density in grxs17 and roxy19 8-day-old seedlings (n ≥ 20). Error bars indicate the standard deviation; double asterisks indicated a P-value ≤ 0.001 using Welch's t-test statistics analysis. (B) Percentage of LRP in each developmental stage, 48 hours after gravistimulation (n ≥ 20).

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 25 Figure II.2.5. Screening for grxs17 suppressor mutants. In (A) we show the double phenotype used to select EMS plants that suppress both primary root elongation (at 7 days) and LRP defects (at 10 days) in grxs17 background. Red arrows indicate good candidates; the right picture also displays a magnification of the bending zone (red circle) due to gravistimulation; (B) PR growth quantification in 33G2 and 41C3 suppressor mutants. Error bars indicate the standard deviation; double asterisks indicated a P-value ≤ 0.001 using Welch's t-test statistical analysis (n ≥ 35). (C) LR emergence, 3 days after gravistimulation; white bars represent percentage of plants with emerged lateral roots in the gravistimulation-induced bending area and red bars represent percentage of plants without emerged LR (n ≥ 35).

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 26 Figure II.2.6. Proposed model of the involvement of ROXY19 and GRXS17 in the control of the lateral root development.

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  Figure II.3.1. Map-based cloning. The identification of the causal mutation by the well known map-based cloning approach, consists in the localization of the homozygous locus in the F2 generation from the cross between the mutant, and a divergent line (around 7 months of experimentation).

Figure II. 3 . 2 .

 32 Figure II.3.2. Comparison of NGS pipelines in the detection of the causal mutation.This figure is adopted from the study published by Allen et al in 2013. They showed that NGM, SHOREmap, Samtools, and GATK are able to identify the causal mutation in the EMS-mutant BCF2 that produced leaf hyponasty in the mir159a plants (involved in the microRNA pathway). The causal mutation was located in chromosome 3, which produced a stop codon in the position 1405085, that corresponds to the gene HASTY involved in the microRNA biogenesis (black arrow).

  leaves are elongated, show a thickened lamina and the development of the main floral spike is delayed (Figure II.3.5). Therefore, M2 plants from 24 pools of M1 mutagenized population were screened under long day/high light conditions. Potential suppressors were selected after 10 days of growth for the rescue of the development of the first two leaves (Figure II.3.6). The selected candidates were further grown under the same conditions. 15 suppressor mutants show an almost full rescue of the grxs17 mutant phenotype: normal leaves and main floral spike (Figure II.3.6). Moreover, 20 other plants had an intermediate phenotype between grxs17 and wild-type plants (not shown). The 15 suppressor lines were backcrossed with the parent grxs17 mutant in Col-0 (Table II.3.1).

  experimental design shown in Figure II.3.7. Suppression variants of the root phenotype (in Col-0), were outcrossed with the grxs17 mutant within the Landsberg erecta (Ler) background to produce recombinant plants. The F1 generation was self-crossed, and the F2 progeny were screened to select a pool of homozygous plants, displaying the suppressor phenotype, which were used for genomic DNA extraction and sent for deep sequencing (Figure II.3.7). The same steps were performed for the suppression lines of the shoot phenotype of the mutant grxs17, but instead of outcrossing with the polymorphic variant Ler, those lines were backcrossed with grxs17 in Col-0 (Figure II.3.7).

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  SNPs and short insertions or deletions (INDELs), compared to the reference TAIR10 Col-0 genome, which means about 1 SNP or INDEL every 6 kb on average. As expected, the difference observed between both ecotypes is far bigger, since the grxs17 mutant in Ler background shows 860776 SNPs or short INDELs, compared to the TAIR10 reference Col-0 genome, which means about 1 SNP or INDEL every 138 bases on average, or 7.25 SNPs or INDELs per kb. This is almost twice higher frequency that what was previously reported by comparing Ler genome resequencing to the TAIR9 reference Col-0 genome sequence with a similar 19X coverage[START_REF] Lu | Analysis of Arabidopsis genome-wide variations before and after meiosis and meiotic recombination by resequencing Landsberg erecta and all four products of a single meiosis[END_REF].

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  Figure II.3.3. Characterization of the grxs17 knock-out mutants. (A) Representation of the T-DNA insertions in the GRXS17 gene. SALK021301 in Col-0, CSHL GT22726 in Ler ecotypes. Lines and black bars represent transgenic sequences and exons respectively. (B) Phenotype of 12 day-old in vitro plants from wildtype and grxs17 in both Col-0 and Ler ecotypes. Plants were grown at 20°C under long day (16h/8h) conditions. (C) Primary root length from 12 day-old plants. Error bars represent the SD of the mean (n=20). * p<0.001 by Student 's T-test.

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  Figure II.3.4. Phenotypes of the grxs17 mutant under long day and high light conditions. (A) Phenotype of wild-type and grxs17 mutant after 8 (B) and 20 days. Short days= 8 hours and long days = 16 hours under 200µmol m -2 s -1 . Figure adapted from Knuesting et al., 2015.

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  Figure II.3.5. Screening of grxs17 suppressors.

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  that were sent to sequencing contain contaminant non suppressor plants, I took in consideration SNPs that were between 0.80 to 1.0 in the AF scale, and SNPs with high and moderate impact. This strategy produced several possible candidates in the samples 12F3, 13B2, 22E1, 23G2, 28A2, 33G2, 38F1, 41C3, and 41D3 (TableII.3.4). The analysis of the allele distribution of the SNP frequency of those samples shows interesting results in the samples 12F3 and 23G2 in chromosome 2, 33G2 in chromosome 5, and 41C3 in chromosome 4. Interestingly, we observed an increase in the SNP frequency in the areas that are harboring those possible candidates.

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  Figure II.3.6. Phenotypes of suppressor lines of the grxs17 mutant. (A) Shoot phenotype of wild-type plants Col-0 and Ler, together with the T-DNA insertion lines in the GRXS17 gene in both ecotypes. (B-D) Suppressor lines isolated by EMS-screening. 1A1, 7F1, 23G2, 21F1, and 29B1 were selected due to the strong suppression of the shoot phenotype presented in the mutant grxs17.

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  Figure II.3.7. Mapping-by-sequencing methodology.This figure shows the two strategies to identify the causal mutation, from an EMSscreening that are based on NGS. Outcross and backcross are necessary in order to identify the causal mutation based on the allele frequency of linked SNPs, which are used as markers (Adapted from[START_REF] James | User guide for mapping-by-sequencing in Arabidopsis[END_REF]. In this study, we used as parent lines for outcross grxs17 mutant in Ler, which is crossed with the grxs17 mutant suppressor lines in Col-0 background. While in the backcross approach the suppressor lines were crossed only with grxs17 in Col-0 as a parent line. The resulting F2 generation that shows the suppression phenotype are collected and sent to sequencing.

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  Figure II.3.8. NGM results with suppressor line 12F3. (A) Allele frequency distribution in each chromosome of the sample 12F3. (B)

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  Figure II.3.9. SHOREmap results from chromosome 2. Samples 12F3, 22E1, 33G2, and 41D3 showed an increased in the allele frequency in chr2. However, the pipeline did not produce any possible target in each of those suppressor lines. Red dots represent the SNPs harboring by each sample, and the blue line show the window-based allele frequency (AF).

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  Figure II.3.10. Method to detect the causal mutation based on Samtools and SnpEff pipelines.

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  Figure II.3.11. Comparison of SHOREmap and Samtools/snpEff pipeline. (A) Detection of the causal mutation in Chr2 using SHOREmap. The chart is adapted from (Sun and Schneeberger, 2015), in which an EMS mutation was found in the position 18,808,927 of Chr2 (yellow square), and which was responsible for the phenotype of the mutant named OCF2. (B) Dots represented the SNP frequency for EMS (red), non-EMS in Col-0 (black), and non-EMS in Ler (yellow). SNPs that belong to Ler background is plotted with negative values to facilitate the comparison.

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  Figure II.3.12. Allele frequency of SNPs in 12F3. Dots represented the SNP frequency for EMS (red), non-EMS in Col-0 (black), and non-EMS in Ler (yellow)

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  Figure II.3.13. EMS-SNP frequency of 12F3. Red dots represent the allele frequency of the EMS-SNPs, while the red line indicated the centromeric region of each chromosome.

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  Figure II.3.14. EMS-SNP frequency of 13B2. Red dots represent the allele frequency of the EMS-SNPs, while the red line indicated the centromeric region of each chromosome.

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  Figure II.3.15. EMS-SNP frequency of 22E1. Red dots represent the allele frequency of the EMS-SNPs, while the red line indicated the centromeric region of each chromosome.

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  Figure II.3.16. EMS-SNP frequency of 23G2. Red dots represent the allele frequency of the EMS-SNPs, while the red line indicated the centromeric region of each chromosome.

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  Figure II.3.17. EMS-SNP frequency of 28A2. Red dots represent the allele frequency of the EMS-SNPs, while the red line indicated the centromeric region of each chromosome.

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  Figure II.3.18. EMS-SNP frequency of 33G2. Red dots represent the allele frequency of the EMS-SNPs, while the red line indicated the centromeric region of each chromosome.

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  Figure II.3.19. EMS-SNP frequency of 38F1. Red dots represent the allele frequency of the EMS-SNPs, while the red line indicated the centromeric region of each chromosome.

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  Figure II.3.20. EMS-SNP frequency of 41C3. Red dots represent the allele frequency of the EMS-SNPs, while the red line indicated the centromeric region of each chromosome.

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  Figure II.3.21. EMS-SNP frequency of 41D3. Red dots represent the allele frequency of the EMS-SNPs, while the red line indicated the centromeric region of each chromosome.

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  Figure II.3.22. Suppressor mutants to study GRXS17 roles during plant development.

Figure III. 1 .

 1 Figure III.1. Glutathione as a key component to control the root system.

Figure III. 2 .

 2 Figure III.2. Tissue-specific expression of IBR10 in the root.

  , ugt74e2 (Salk_091130), and ugt74d1 (Salk_011286) are Salk lines. Wildtype and mutant seeds were surface-sterilized by constant agitation with 0.05% SDS made on ethanol 70% (v/v) during 20 minutes. Thereafter, seeds were washed three times with ethanol 95% (v/v) and dried at room-temperature under sterile conditions. Seeds were placed on square Petri plates containing 50 ml of Murashige and Skoog medium diluted two fold (MS ½), and solidified with plant agar with a final concentration of 0.8% (w/v), without sucrose unless indicated. For the phosphorous deprivation experiments, we used MS 3 / 10 in which Pi-deficient plates contained 500µM NaCl, and control plates 500µM NaH 2 PO 4 as indicated inArnaud et al., 2014. For the examination of the root hair responses in the experiments with M. loti, seeds were placed vertically on standard MS ½ medium and after 5 days, seedlings were transferred to plates containing 0.1 OD of inoculum and root hair lengths were quantified after 4 days of incubation. Plates with the inoculum were prepared according toPoitout et al., 2017. All experiments were carried out on in vitro conditions with 160 µE.m -2 .s -1 light intensity (16/8) at 20 °C.

  Quantitative real-time PCR was done using Takyon™ No Rox SYBR® MasterMix dTTP Blue (Eurogentec, Belgium).

FIGURE 1 |

 1 FIGURE 1 | H 2 O 2 -induced thiol modifications and scavenging activities in the nucleus. H 2 O 2 accumulating in the nucleus can be detoxified by a NTR/TRX/PRX system. While many other H 2 O 2 detoxification enzymes are active in plants (e.g., catalases and ascorbate peroxidases), their presence in the nucleus is not demonstrated yet. They are not represented here. H 2 O 2 can oxidize thiol residues in protein. Sulfenic acid reacts with GSH, NO or with adjacent thiol residues.Putative nuclear proteins prone to S-glutathionylated, S-nitrosylated, or disulfide bonds formation have been identified by proteomic and biochemical approaches (see Supplementary Table1;Delorme-Hinoux et al., 2016;[START_REF] Pérez-Pérez | The deep thioredoxome in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii: new insights into redox regulation[END_REF]. S-glutathionylated, S-nitrosylated, or intra/intermolecular disulfide bonds can be reduced by NTR/TRX, GR/GSH/GRX, or GSNOR. NTR, NADPH-dependent thioredoxin reductase; TRX, thioredoxin; GR, glutathione reductase; GRX, glutaredoxin; PRX, peroxiredoxin; GSNOR, S-nitrosoglutathione reductase; GSH, glutathione; NO, nitric oxide; H 2 O 2 , hydrogen peroxide.

Fig. 1

 1 Fig.1The light-dependent reduction pathway of TRX and their targets in chloroplasts of higher plants. Absorbed light enables the photosynthetic electron transport chain to provide reducing power from the PS I to FDX. FDX transmits electrons to the FTR, which reduces oxidized TRX (blue). Reduced TRX modify the redox activation states of distinct target enzymes (red) cleaving the disulfide bridge between Cys residues to two thiols (see above for Abbreviations)

Fig. 2

 2 Fig. 2 NTRC controls the redox state of 2-Cys PRX. The catalytically active form of NTRC (blue) is a dimer arranged in a head-to-tail conformation. NTRC interacts with 2-Cys PRX (red) through its TRX domain and efficiently reduces the disulfide bond linking the peroxidatic (S P ) and resolving (S R ) Cys residues of oxidized 2-Cys PRX using NADPH as source of reducing equivalents. The thiolic form of S P reacts with H 2 O 2 releasing H 2 O and rendering the peroxidatic Cys oxidized as a sulfenic intermediate (S P O � ), which is then attacked by the resolving Cys (S R H) to form the disulfide form. Under oxidizing conditions, the sulfenic intermediate (S P O � ) can be overoxidized to sulfinic (S P O 2 �

Fig. 3

 3 Fig.3TRX-dependent redox regulation of metabolic pathways in chloroplasts of higher plants. Light enables the energy-driven electron flow (red arrows) through the thylakoid membranes to FDX, which distributes the reducing power to different systems. The FNR system produces NADPH consumed by the Calvin-Benson cycle, but also by the malate valve or NTRC (bright orange). Secondly, the FTR system is providing electrons to TRX (deep orange). Additionally, the nitrogen assimilation pathway and the cyclic electron transport rely on the reducing ability of FDX. Reduced TRX and NTRC proteins facilitate the reversible redox activation of their distinct target enzymes (deep purple). Exclusively, in vitro as well as in vivo confirmed targets are shown. These include enzymes involved in different biosynthesis pathways (AGPase, ATPase, CHLM, Mg-chelatase), the oxidative stress system (2-Cys PRX, MSR), the cyclic electron transport (PGR), the Calvin-Benson cycle (FBPase, PRK, Rubisco activase, SBPase), and the malate valve (NADP + -MDH). The function of the proposed interaction between the TRX and NTRC systems, as well as the reduction pathway of TRXz and its role as redox regulator in general are not yet fully resolved (dotted red arrows). Whether TRX have an activating or inhibiting effect on the PGR target (bright purple) is also not clear so far (see above for Abbreviations)

Fig. 4

 4 Fig. 4 Extraplastidial TRX systems in higher plants. Different plant TRX isoforms (yellow) are represented in their respective subcellular localization. When established, their respective reducers are represented (blue). Some key TRX target proteins (green) as well as the respective regulated functions (red spots) are also shown (see above for Abbreviations)

2 .-radicals, which are dismutated by SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASES (SOD) to produce H 2 O 2 . The H 2 O 2 formed can produce OH . by Fenton reactions, which is one of the most reactive ROS produced by the cell

  . The role of glutathione in controlling root development is therefore still misunderstood. Given the importance of IBA-derived IAA in regulating root development, we chose to address the role of glutathione in root responses to IBA. We show that glutathione deficiency impairs LR and RH responses to IBA but not IAA. We then try to identify the glutathione-dependent mechanisms required for IBA responses but every IBArelated pathway examined does not reveal sensitivity to glutathione levels. We finally suggest a physiological role for this glutathione-dependent IBA response, showing that IBA and glutathione pathways are critical for RH responses to phosphate deficiency. We show that 0.5mM exogenous BSO also reduces endogenous glutathione levels of wild type plants to approximately the same levels. In addition, we report that exogenous IBA treatment does not impact endogenous glutathione levels. Supplementary FiguresII.1.1A and II.1.1B show that cad2 and pad2 mutants display the same primary root growth as the wild-type in our growth conditions, and that the primary root responds normally to both IAA and IBA. In the same way, BSO treatment (0.5mM) neither affects primary root growth nor its response to IAA or IBA. zir1 mutant shows a strongly reduced primary root growth under normal conditions but responds normally to both IAA and IBA. Since we measured the same total glutathione levels in zir1 than in cad2 or pad2 but observe a severely reduced growth of that allele, we decided to focus on pad2, cad2 and BSO treatment in the next experiments.

RESULTS

Glutathione deficiency specifically alters LR and RH responses to IBA but not IAA

Since IBA plays important roles during root development, we investigated root responses to both IAA and IBA in several gsh1 weak alleles and in plants treated with Buthionine Sulfoximine (BSO), a chemical specific inhibitor of GSH1 enzyme.

We first wanted to precisely know the glutathione levels in the different genotypes in our growth conditions, thus we quantified endogenous glutathione in whole 8-day old seedlings

(Figure II.1.1A)

. We find the same amount of total glutathione (i.e. about 25% of wild-type content) in cad2, pad2 and zir1 mutants, which was expected for cad2 and pad2 whereas zir1 has previously been reported to have lower glutathione contents (about 15% relative to wild-type).

As expected, both IAA and IBA also induce LR density in the mature zone of the root in 10-day-old seedlings

(Figure II.1.1B)

. LR density in both cad2 and pad2 mutants responds normally to IAA treatment but displays hyposensitivity to exogenous IBA. Interestingly, the addition of 0.5 mM BSO phenocopies cad2 and pad2 mutants, and this BSO phenotype is dose-sensitive (Supplementary Figure II.1.2A). Finally, we could revert cad2 hyposensitivity to IBA by adding exogenous GSH (Supplementary Figure II.1.2B). Because emerged LR density depends both on LR initiation and subsequent LRP development, we also addressed the LRP density in the same conditions. Figure II.1.1C reveals that both LRP and emerged LR densities display IBA hyposensitivity in plants with low glutathione levels, suggesting that glutathione affects LR development upstream of LRP development. Another way to investigate LRP development is to force and synchronize LRP initiation by gravistimulation

[START_REF] Péret | Auxin regulates aquaporin function to facilitate lateral root emergence[END_REF]

. We therefore gravistimulated glutathione-deficient plants, in the absence or presence of exogenous IBA (10 µM). We first observe that exogenous IBA treatment slightly slows down wild-type LRP development upon gravistimulation in our growth conditions

(Figure II.1.1D)

.

IAA transport from the distal to the basal meristem is not targeted by glutathione

  II.1.2B). In agreement with the DR5:GUS reporter line, both IBA and IAA treatments increase auxin signalling in distal and basal parts of the meristem. The presence of BSO does not significantly alter auxin signalling, neither in standard conditions nor upon exogenous IAA treatment. However, we can confirm that BSO severely represses IAA signalling in the basal part of the meristem in response to exogenous IBA, while it has limited effect in the distal part.In contrast with cad2, none of the other mutants display any LR density hyposensitivity to IBA (Figure II.1.3B). In addition, the use of the roGFP2 probe allowed us to confirm that the presence of IBA does not generate any imbalance in glutathione redox status in root tissues(Figure II.1.3C and Supplementary Figure II.1.3). These results suggest that root responses to IBA specifically depend on glutathione overall levels rather than glutathione redox status or any general redox imbalance.We have just shown that IBA-derived IAA response in the basal meristem is dependent on

	In other words, the glutathione regulation still occurs in both aux1 and pin2 mutants,
	revealing that neither AUX1 nor PIN2 is regulated by glutathione to control root responses
	to IBA. Because AUX1 and PIN2 are members of multigene families, we wanted to ensure
	both in the absence or in the presence of exogenous IBA that has almost no effect. As that other members of AUX/LAX or PIN families are not replacing AUX1 and PIN2 in
	expected, cat2 and gr1 mutants display high glutathione oxidation status. respective mutants. We therefore addressed IBA responses with or without BSO treatment
	8 9

Hence we show that glutathione is specifically required for IBA-derived IAA signalling in the basal part of the meristem, where LR founder cells are specified and RH growth is determined. Moreover, we show that glutathione does not affect IAA signalling components since auxin signalling reporters respond normally to exogenous IAA when glutathione content is depleted.

IBA-derived IAA responses are specifically affected by glutathione deficiency

Because glutathione is a critical regulator of general redox homeostasis, we addressed root responses to IBA in other redox-related mutants. We chose to analyse gr1 mutant, affected in cytosolic and peroxisomal glutathione reduction, cat2 mutant, affected in H 2 O 2 detoxification, and ntra ntrb double mutant affected in the thioredoxin-dependent thiols reduction system. Quantification of both GSH and GSSG (Figure II.1.3A) shows that redox-related mutants have higher total glutathione concentrations than wild type plants, glutathione levels. We also know that AUX1 is required for IAA to regulate RH growth in response to phosphate deprivation and that IBA-to-IAA conversion in the root cap is required for LR founder cells specification in the basal meristem. AUX1 auxin influx facilitator and PIN2 auxin efflux carrier are the IAA transporters that ensure the apicobasal IAA flux in the root cap and the root tip epidermis. Finally, we previously published that strong BSO treatment induces long-term decrease in the expression of several genes encoding IAA transporters, including AUX1 and PIN members. In order to determine if AUX1 and/or PIN2 are the targets of glutathione to modulate root responses to IBA, we examined LR density in aux1 and pin2 mutants. As shown in Figure II.1.4A, aux1 and pin2 mutants still display hyposensitivity to IBA when BSO is present. in the presence of specific inhibitors of both families (Figure II.1.4B).

Figure II.1.3.

IBA hyposentitivity phenotype is specific to GSH-depleted plants.

  We can observe that BSO still leads to LR hyposentitivity to IBA both in the presence of NPA, that inhibits PIN-dependent auxin efflux, and NOA, a specific inhibitor of AUX/LAX influx facilitators. All together these data suggest that the glutathionedependent control of root responses to IBA does not affect IAA transport from the root apex to the basal meristem.

	(A) Glutathione content in 8-day-old wild-type (Col-0), gr1, ntra ntrb or cat2
	seedlings grown on standard ½ MS medium. Data represent the means of 3 biological
	repetitions. Reduced glutathione is represented in white (GSH) and oxidised glutathione
	in black (GSSG). (B) Emerged lateral root density of 10-day-old wild-type (Col-0), cad2,
	cat2, gr1 or ntra ntrb plants grown on standard ½ MS medium or the presence of 10 µM
	IBA (n≥16). (C) Representative pictures (n≥10) of roGFP2 reporter line grown on standard ½ MS medium (MS), submitted to a 30 min treatment with 1 mM H 2 O 2 then to Looking for glutathione targets in IBA pathways.
	an additional 30 min treatment with 10 mM DTT (top panel). The bottom panel represents Since IAA transport was not affected, we logically investigated IBA homeostasis in plants
	roGFP2 reporter plants grown on standard ½ MS medium supplemented or not with 10 with low glutathione content. Interestingly, gsh1 mutants display pleiotropic phenotypes
	opposite to the pleiotropic phenotypes of mutant alleles in PDR8/PEN3/ABCG36 for IBA
	Because of putative redundancy between these two proteins, we generated the pdr8 pdr9
	double mutant. As for single mutants, LR density and RH length in the double mutant are
	induced by IBA but BSO is still able to decrease this response. This result means that IBA
	efflux transporters ABCG36 and ABCG37 are not the targets of glutathione-dependent
	regulation.

µM IBA. Pictures are made from the ratio between the oxidised roGFP2 signal (excitation at 405 nm) and the reduced roGFP2 signal (excitation at 488 nm). Ratio values are represented in the color scale. Histograms represent the mean and error bars represent the standard deviation. Asterisks indicate a significant difference, based on a two-tailed Student t-test (*P<0.01; **P<0,001).

sensitivity, but also for sensitivity to Pseudomonas and to cadmium

[START_REF] Kim | The ABC transporter AtPDR8 is a cadmium extrusion pump conferring heavy metal resistance[END_REF][START_REF] Lu | Mutant Allele-Specific Uncoupling of PENETRATION3 Functions Reveals Engagement of the ATP-Binding Cassette Transporter in Distinct Tryptophan Metabolic Pathways[END_REF][START_REF] Strader | The Arabidopsis PLEIOTROPIC DRUG RESISTANCE8/ABCG36 ATP Binding Cassette Transporter Modulates Sensitivity to the Auxin Precursor Indole-3-Butyric Acid[END_REF]

. ABCG36 is responsible for IBA efflux from the cells, which prompted us to investigate the IBA import into plant cells in the cad2 mutant.

As shown in Figure II.1.5A, we cannot detect any impairment in 3 H-IBA accumulation in cad2. This suggests that IBA import into the cell is not perturbed by glutathione deficiency.

In order to better investigate IBA transport, we analysed the glutathione-dependent LR and RH response to IBA in abcg36/pdr8 and abcg37/pdr9 mutants. As expected, pdr8 mutant displays hypersensitivity to exogenous IBA

(Figure II.1.5B and Supplementary Figure II.1.4

). However, both mutants are still clearly resistant to IBA in the presence of BSO.

  Since it had recently been shown that root-cap derived auxin regulates RH responses to phosphate deprivation, we decided to investigate RH responses to diverse environmental stimuli. Hence, we analysed RH elongation rate in response to phosphate starvation and to

	Mesorhizobium

loti (M. loti), a well-described PGPR. We can observe in Figures II.1.7A and 7B that both stimuli increase RH length in wild-type plants. Both cad2 and ibr1 ibr3 ibr10 mutants display wild-type like RH response to M. loti, suggesting that neither glutathione nor IBA participate in RH elongation response to PGPR (Figure II.1.7A).

In contrast we can observe that cad2 mutant is clearly hyposensitive to phosphate deprivation, and that RH elongation response to phosphate starvation is almost fully abolished in ibr1 ibr3 ibr10 mutant

(Figure II.1.7B)

. We also confirm the reduction in glutathione levels in cad2 mutant while ibr1 ibr3 ibr10 mutant does not alter glutathione content and redox status (Supplementary Figure

II.1.5)

. Interestingly, phosphate deprivation does not significantly affect total glutathione content in plants but increases the GSH/GSSG ratio.

tuning of root architecture in response to phosphate availability

  All the phenotypes reported in this manuscript concern root responses to exogenous IBA and one can wonder if the glutathione-dependent regulation normally occurs in physiological conditions, modulating pathways relying on endogenous IBA. Because of our scarce knowledge of IBA metabolism and the absence of genetic tools concerning IBA biosynthesis, it is rather difficult to address such question. However, we accumulated several clues that, taken together, strongly support the importance of glutathione for the control of endogenous IBA pathways. First, we observe in cad2 mutant seedlings grown under standard conditions (i.e. without exogenous IBA) a general increase in the expression of all genes involved in IBA-to-IAA conversion(Figure II.1.6B). This might reveal a feedback mechanism that would report an excess of IBA or a depletion in IBA-In addition both are not impaired in the general plant response to phosphate deprivation, but only in the RH elongation response. This set of arguments not only proves the independent importance of endogenous IBA pathway on one hand and of glutathione in the other hand to mediate RH response to phosphate starvation, but also strongly suggests that the glutathione-dependent regulation of endogenous IBA pathway is Although well-known to play important roles in plant development, the function of IBA as a source of IAA relatively to other IAA sources, such as de novo synthesis or conjugated forms, is still very mysterious and we might wonder "Why plants need more than one type of auxins?"(Frick and Strader, 2018; Simon and Petrášek, 2011). A previous work has reported that IBA regulates both plant development and resistance to water stress, suggesting an important function for IBA in adapting plant development to abiotic stress

	modulating the RH response.
	Auxins fine-
	1 0 1

derived IAA in low glutathione conditions. Secondly, we observe that both ugt and pdr double mutants are hypersensitive to exogenous IBA

(Figures II.1.5B and II.1.5C)

, which is consistent with their already reported overaccumulation of endogenous free IBA

[START_REF] Strader | The Arabidopsis PLEIOTROPIC DRUG RESISTANCE8/ABCG36 ATP Binding Cassette Transporter Modulates Sensitivity to the Auxin Precursor Indole-3-Butyric Acid[END_REF][START_REF] Ruzicka | Arabidopsis PIS1 encodes the ABCG37 transporter of auxinic compounds including the auxin precursor indole-3-butyric acid[END_REF][START_REF] Tognetti | Perturbation of Indole-3-Butyric Acid Homeostasis by the UDP-Glucosyltransferase UGT74E2 Modulates Arabidopsis Architecture and Water Stress Tolerance[END_REF]

. Interestingly, it looks like BSO has more effect in both mutant genotypes than for the wild-type plants, reducing IBA response by 20 to 25% in wild type plants, but by 28 to 33% in pdr and ugt double mutants, respectively

(Figures II.1.5B and II.1.5C)

. This supports a role for glutathione in modulating responses to endogenous IBA. Finally, we show that both cad2 and ibr1 ibr3 ibr10 triple mutant display hyposensitivity in their RH response to phosphate, but not to Mesorhizobium loti.

[START_REF] Tognetti | Perturbation of Indole-3-Butyric Acid Homeostasis by the UDP-Glucosyltransferase UGT74E2 Modulates Arabidopsis Architecture and Water Stress Tolerance[END_REF]

. However, to our knowledge, our work is the first to clearly demonstrate that IBA-dependent pathway is necessary for IAA to adapt some developmental pathway, i.e. root hair elongation, to a specific abiotic stress (phosphate starvation).

In their recent work,

[START_REF] Bhosale | A mechanistic framework for auxin dependent Arabidopsis root hair elongation to low external phosphate[END_REF]

already revealed the increase in IAA levels in the root cap in response to low external phosphate, necessary for RH elongation. However, because they observe a significant increase in TAA1 (TRYPTOPHAN AMINOTRANSFERASE OF ARABIDOPSIS 1) gene expression in such conditions, they hypothesize that the increase in IAA levels in the root cap is due to the induction of Indole-3-Pyruvic Acid (IPyA)-dependent pathway, the main one responsible for de novo IAA synthesis in Arabidopsis

[START_REF] Mashiguchi | The main auxin biosynthesis pathway in Arabidopsis[END_REF]

. Intriguingly, RH elongation response to external low phosphate is almost completely abolished in both ibr1 ibr3 ibr10 and taa1 mutants

(Figure II.1.7B and Bhosale et al., 2018: Figures

  However, the quantification of LR elongation between day 10 and day 14(Figure II.2.3C) shows a moderate but significant dose-dependent increase of wild-type lateral root elongation rate in the presence of ABA. Conversely, the same amounts of ABA significantly decrease the rate of elongation in roxy19 mutant. This result suggests that

	ABA can either repress or enhance LR growth, depending on the ROXY19 expression
	level.
	GRXS17 is required for proper LR primordium development
	Given the role of ROXY19 in inhibiting lateral root initiation, we further investigated LR
	This delay was rescued in the lines overexpressing GRXS17 (CaMV35S promoter) in the
	grxs17 background (Figure II.2.4B). It took us almost six days after gravistimulation to see
	LR emergence in almost all grxs17 plants (data not shown). Altogether, these results show
	that GRXS17 specifically functions in controlling LRP development, in addition to
	regulate PR meristem activity.

primordium (LRP) development stages and measured the density of LRP and LR in earlier stage of lateral root development, in 8-day-old seedlings (Figure II.2.4A). We show that roxy19 mutant displays more emerged LR and less LRP than the wild-type, consistent with the repressor role of ROXY19 for LR growth described above. Conversely, grxs17 plants display an increase in LRP compared to wild-type plants while no emerged lateral roots are observed at that stage. Together with the previous results showing no difference in final LR density in older plants (Figure II.2.2C), it suggests that GRXS17 specifically regulates LRP development, but not LR initiation or elongation. The initiation of the lateral root

primordium can be induced and synchronized by gravitropic stimulus

[START_REF] Ditengou | Mechanical induction of lateral root initiation in Arabidopsis thaliana[END_REF][START_REF] Péret | Auxin regulates aquaporin function to facilitate lateral root emergence[END_REF]

. In order to further evaluate the role of GRXS17 during LRP development, we performed such a gravistimulation experiment. 48 hours after gravistimulation, we can notice a strong delay in LRP development in grxs17 mutant compared to wild-type plants. Indeed almost all LRP are in stages I to IV in the mutant whereas they are mostly emerged or in the latest stages in the wild-type (Figure II.2.4B).

  CGFS active site able to coordinate an iron-sulfur cluster. This study is the first report of the functions of thiols redox-regulating systems during LR development. Here we focused on GRXS17 and ROXY19 but we also report that other candidate GRX are highly or specifically expressed during LR development. The GRX-dependent regulation of LR is likely even more complex and critical than reported here. Future studies on these other candidates might unveil other GRX-dependent checkpoints during LR development. Other components of the redox homeostasis regulation, such as ROS, have already been reported to play important roles during LR development, supporting a key role for redox regulation in this process. ROS also relay ABA-dependent signaling during abiotic stress responses(Pei et al., 2000). However the connection between GRX pathways and ROS functions is not yet unveiled. Therefore, our study opens new avenues to study the involvement of such redox regulation in LR development and its adaptation to environmental cues, particularly in relation to hormonal signaling.Physiol. 165, 1105-1119. doi: 10.1104/pp.114.238873 Meyer, Y., Belin, C., Delorme-Hinoux, V., Reichheld, J.P. and Riondet, C. (2012).

	involved in LR development but in a very different way. GRXS17 might act as an intrinsic regulator of meristematic activity while ROXY19 might participate in the adaptation of LR development to its environment. Consistently, ROXY19 and GRXS17 are expected to act through very different mechanisms and pathways. Indeed, they differ in their already reported interacting proteins. Moreover, these two GRX have different structural characteristics. ROXY19 is a monodomain dicysteinic glutaredoxin having a CCMC motif, whereas GRXS17 contains one thioredoxin-like domain and three glutaredoxin domains functional significance. Antioxid. Redox Signal. 17, 1124-1160. doi: 10.1089/ars.2011.4327 harboring a Thioredoxin and glutaredoxin systems in plants: molecular mechanisms, crosstalks, and Meyer, Y.,

on the results showed in this study, we propose a model to explain the roles of both ROXY19 and GRXS17 in Arabidopsis during lateral root development. From the genetic studies we propose that glutaredoxin GRXS17 is required during lateral root primordia development in the stage in which the primordium is crossing the outer layers of the PR.

ROXY19 is involved in the spacing between lateral roots, suggesting it functions during the induction process of LR (priming or activation of founder cells), and acts negatively in LR elongation after the emergence of the primordium

(Figure II.2.6)

. The evidence that the control of the lateral root elongation by ABA is ROXY19-dependent let us envisage a hypothesis in which the glutaredoxin ROXY19 modulates the activity of the plant hormone abscisic acid to control the rate of elongation of the mature lateral roots.Intriguingly, we demonstrate that two redox proteins belonging to the same thiol reductase family are

Table II .3.1. Suppressor mutants of the grxs17.

 II The headers: Primary root, lateral root, and shoot, indicate the phenotype of the grxs17 that the suppressor line is able to complement. Samples sent to sequencing are indicated in red.In contrast to the root suppressor screen, we decided to use backcrosses instead of outcross (TableII.3.1), because of the milder shoot phenotype observed in the grxs17 mutant found in the Landsberg ecotype(Figure II.3.6A). This screen was performed in collaboration with the group of Pascal REY at the Biosciences and Biotechnologies Institute of Aix-Marseille (BIAM, CEA Cadarache).

	Mutant	Primary root	Lateral root	Method
	12F3	++		NO	Outcross
	15D1	++ II.3.2.2	NGM	++	Outcross
	20H1	++		++	Outcross
	22E1	++		NO	Outcross
	13B2	++		+	Outcross
	28A2	++		NO	Outcross
	28H1	++		NO	Outcross
	33G2	NO		++	Outcross
	38A1	++		+	Outcross
	38F1	++		+	Outcross
	41C3	+++		+++	Outcross
	41D3	++		+	Outcross
	Mutant	Shoot			Backcross
	23G2	+++			Backcross
	1A1	+++			Backcross
	7F1	++			Backcross
	21F1	++			Backcross
	29B1	+++			Backcross

and SHOREmap failed to identify the causal mutation in the suppressor variants.

Table II .3.2. Alignment summary.

 II Paired-end reads were alignment using bowtie2 pipeline to the TAIR10 reference genome. Coverage depth was calculated by multiplying the reads mapped by the length of the reads and divided by 134634692 bases (Arabidopsis genome size).

	Sample	Total reads	Reads mapped	Coverage depth
	Mutant grxs17 in Col-0 32658340	32525218	24x
	Mutant grxs17 in Ler	26375896	25716761	19x
	12F3	40681172	39935375	30x
	20H1	41787580	40977145	31x
	22E1	27703892	27251377	21x
	13B2	33849592	33466053	25x
	28A2	44187788	43342982	33x
	33G2	36450154	35808297	27x
	38A1	37490500	36831929	28x
	38F1	30103614	29513284	22x
	41C3	29690928	29244973	22x
	41D3	35852870	35213851	27x
	1A1	73460248	71382166	80x
	21F1	78777228	74776000	84x
	23G2	75044734	70954214	80x
	29B1	67659386	64266186	72x
	7F1	73521024	70136128	79x

Table II .3.4. Possible candidates for the causal mutation.

 II Highly samples in yellow indicated the strong candidates that I suggest due to they allele frequency distribution (see figures from 43-51). PR = Primary root, LR= Lateral root, and S = Shoot phenotypes.

							helicase
	41C3 11168869 4	0.80 Missense Gly215Asp AT4G20850	tripeptidyl peptidase ii	PR,LR
	41D3 14667081 3	1	Missense Ala187Val AT3G42550	Eukaryotic aspartyl	PR,LR
							protease family protein
	41D3 17410231 5	1	Missense Pro195Ser	AT5G43360	phosphate transporter 1;3	PR,LR
	Line 41D3 10952698 4 Pos Chr AF 0.94 Missense Gly918Glu AT4G20270 Leucine-rich receptor-like Type Impact ID Description protein kinase family	Phenotype PR,LR
	12F3 16688672 2	0.89 Missense Gly405Glu AT2G39980	HXXXD-type acyl-protein	PR
	41D3 22609997 1	0.90 Missense Arg60Lys	AT1G61300	transferase family protein LRR and NB-ARC	PR,LR
	12F3 12384307 2	domains-containing disease 0.84 Missense Ala219Thr AT2G28850 Cytochrome P450, family 710, subfamily A, polypeptide 3 resistance protein	PR
	12F3 11547020 2	0.8 Missense Pro236Leu AT2G27050	ETHYLENE-	PR
							INSENSITIVE3-like 1
	12F3 12383676 2	0.8 Missense Gly429Glu AT2G28850 Cytochrome P450, family	PR
							710, subfamily A,
							polypeptide 3
	13B2 396165	5	0.84 Missense Gly138Arg AT5G02030	POX (plant homeobox)	PR,LR
							family protein
	13B2 25070824 1	0.83 Missense Ala5123Thr AT1G67120	Midasin-like protein	PR,LR
	13B2 1765918	3	0.83 Missense Leu165Phe AT3G05910 Pectinacetylesterase family	PR,LR
							protein
	13B2 8722818	4	0.82 Missense Ser446Asn AT4G15290 Cellulose synthase family	PR,LR
							protein
	22E1 11676305 2	0.8 Missense Ser249Asn AT2G27285	Nuclear speckle splicing	PR
							regulatory-like protein
							(DUF2040)
	22E1 13676315 4	0.8 Missense Pro155Ser	AT4G27310	B-box type zinc finger	PR
							family protein
	22E1 18389785 4	0.8 Missense Cys252Tyr AT4G39600	Galactose oxidase/kelch	PR
							repeat superfamily protein
	23G2 18619957 2	0.81 nonsense Stop codon	AT2G45160 GRAS family transcription	S
					Gln26*		factor
	28A2 12549688 5	0.80 Missense Ala109Thr AT5G33280	Voltage-gated chloride	PR
							channel family protein
	33G2 9444194	1	0.90 Missense Ala1043Thr AT1G27180 Disease resistance protein	LR
							(TIR-NBS-LRR class)
	33G2 9108015	3	0.81 Missense Gly308Asp AT3G24982	Receptor like protein 40	LR
	33G2 13336506 5	0.80 Missense	Ala11Val	AT5G35069	Hypothetical protein	LR
	38F1 7543402	5	0.81 nonsense	Stop	AT5G22690 Disease resistance protein	PR,LR
					Trp627*		(TIR-NBS-LRR class)
							family
	41C3 6565314	2	1	Missense Arg54Lys	AT2G15130	Plant basic secretory	PR,LR
							protein (BSP) family
							protein
	41C3 12130890 4	1	Missense Thr469Ile	AT4G23160 cysteine-rich RECEPTOR-	PR,LR
							like kinase
	41C3 14991300 4	0.83 nonsense	Trp174*	AT4G30780	ATP-dependent DNA	PR,LR
					1 8 0

  ). Photographs were analyzed and quantified using the public domain image analysis program ImageJ version 1.52 (http://rsb.info.nih.gov/ij/) and the NeuronJ plugin (https://imagescience.org/meijering/software/neuronj/). Lateral root density is the result of the number of lateral roots visually identified with the help of a stereo-microscope (MZ12, Leica), divided by the length of the primary root part in which lateral roots are visible. In order to analyse LRP development, plates containing 6-day-old

	plants were turned 90° and plants were observed after 48 hours using a standard optical
	microscope (Axioscop2, Zeiss).

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Acknowledgements

Acknowledgements:

We thank Christiane Gatz for the Pro35S:ROXY19 trangenic lines. This work was supported by the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, the Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR-Blanc Cynthiol 12-BSV6-0011), Agropolis Fondation through the 'Investissements d'Avenir' programme (ANR-10-LABX 0001-01) and a BQR grant from the University of Perpignan Via Domitia. This study is set within the framework of the "Laboratoires d'Excellences (LABEX)" TULIP (ANR-10-LABX-41). JA T-H is supported by a PhD grant from Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología (CONACYT:254639/411761).

FUNDING

This work was supported by the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, the Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR-Blanc Cynthiol 12-BSV6-0011). LM was supported by a Ph.D. grant from the Université de Perpignan Via Domitia (Ecole Doctorale Energie et Environnement ED305). JT-H was supported by a Ph.D. grant from Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología (CONACYT: 254639/411761).

LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS

GSH

Reduced glutathione

Abstract

Root system architecture results from a highly plastic developmental process to perfectly adapt to environmental conditions. In particular, the development of lateral roots (LR) and root hair (RH) growth are constantly optimized to the rhizosphere properties, including biotic and abiotic constraints. Every step of root system development is tightly controlled by auxin, the major morphogenetic hormone in plants. Glutathione, a major thiol redox regulator, is also critical for root system development but its interplay with auxin is still scarcely understood. Indeed, previous works showed that glutathione deficiency does not alter root responses to exogenous indole acetic acid (IAA), the main active auxin in plants.

Because indole butyric acid (IBA), another endogenous auxinic compound, is an important source of IAA for the control of root development, we investigated the crosstalk between glutathione and IBA during root development. We show that glutathione deficiency alters LR and RH responses to exogenous IBA but not IAA. Although many efforts have been deployed, we could not identify the precise mechanism responsible for this control.

However, we could show that both glutathione and IBA are required for the proper responses of RH to phosphate deprivation, suggesting an important role for this glutathione-dependent regulation of auxin pathway in plant developmental adaptation to its environment. with R version 3.5.1, and vcftools (https://www.r-project.org/). For the analysis with the NGM pipeline, the results from the samtools mpileup were converted to .emap files, and analyzed following the instructions of the web site (http://bar.utoronto.ca/ngm/).

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Identification of the causal mutation with the SHOREmap package, was performed following the instructions of the authors (Schneeberger et al., 2009b;[START_REF] Sun | SHOREmap v3.0: Fast and accurate identification of causal mutations from forward genetic screens[END_REF].

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AUTHOR CONTRIBUTIONS

LM, JT-H and J-PR wrote the paper. LM and JT-H performed the figures.

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The Supplementary Material for this article can be found online at: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpls.2018.00705/ full#supplementary-material

Conflict of Interest Statement: The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest.

transcription factors and genetic control elements in the nucleus. Future studies are required to examine the interorganellar cross talk between TRX at the cellular level and to explore further in vivo functions in planta.