How Do Cells Know What They Want to be When They Grow Up? Lessons from Epidermal Patterning in Arabidopsis

Annual Review of Plant Biology

Volumn 54, Issue , 2003, Pages 403-430

  Larkin, John C ^a   Brown, Matt L ^a   Schiefelbein, John ^b  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Basic helix loop helix (bHLH); Cell differentiation; Lateral inhibition; MYB; Pattern formation; Root hair; Stomata; Trichome; WD repeat

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS;

ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARABIDOPSIS; CELL CYCLE; CYTOLOGY; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT EPIDERMIS; PLANT GROWTH; PLANT ROOT; REVIEW;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; CELL CYCLE; HYPOCOTYL; PLANT EPIDERMIS; PLANT ROOTS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 0142135663     PISSN: 15435008     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.arplant.54.031902.134823     Document Type: Review

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