An epidermis-driven mechanism positions and scales stem cell niches in plants

Science Advances

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Gruel, Jérémy ^a   Landrein, Benoit ^a,b   Tarr, Paul ^c   Schuster, Christoph ^a   Refahi, Yassin ^a,b   Sampathkumar, Arun ^c   Hamant, Olivier ^b   Meyerowitz, Elliot M ^a,c   Jönsson, Henrik ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGY; CELLS; CYTOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENES; PLANTS (BOTANY); TISSUE;

ADAPTIVE SCALING; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; EPIDERMAL CELLS; LIVE IMAGING; MOLECULAR PATTERNING; PLANT STEMS; SHOOT APICAL MERISTEMS; STEM-CELL NICHES;

STEM CELLS;

CYTOLOGY; EPIDERMIS; FLOWER; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; MERISTEM; METABOLISM; PLANT PHYSIOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STEM CELL; STEM CELL NICHE;

EPIDERMIS; FLOWERS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; MERISTEM; PLANT PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STEM CELL NICHE; STEM CELLS;

EID: 84976610014     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23752548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.1500989     Document Type: Article

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