Severing at sites of microtubule crossover contributes to microtubule alignment in cortical arrays

Plant Journal

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 742-751

  Wightman, Raymond ^a   Turner, Simon R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Alignment; Cortical array; Microtubules; Pavement cells; Petioles; Severing

Indexed keywords

CELLS; PLANTS (BOTANY);

CORTICAL ARRAYS; MICROTUBULES; PAVEMENT CELLS; PETIOLES; SEVERING;

MICROARRAYS;

ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; HYBRID PROTEIN; PHOTOPROTEIN; TUBULIN;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; COTYLEDON; CYTOLOGY; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MICROTUBULE; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT ROOT; SEEDLING;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; COTYLEDON; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MICROTUBULES; PLANT ROOTS; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SEEDLING; TUBULIN;

EID: 35848970984     PISSN: 09607412     EISSN: 1365313X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-313X.2007.03271.x     Document Type: Article

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