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Maintenance of stem cell populations in plants.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 30 Sept 2003
Sharma Vijay K, Carles Cristel, Fletcher Jennifer C
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Flowering plants have the unique ability to produce new organs continuously, for hundreds of years in some species, from stem cell populations maintained at their actively growing tips. The shoot tip is called the shoot apical meristem, and it acts as a self-renewing source of undifferentiated, p...
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