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Plant-specific microtubule-associated protein SPIRAL2 is required for anisotropic growth in Arabidopsis.
Plant physiology - 1 Dec 2004
Shoji Tsubasa, Narita Noriyuki N, Hayashi Kazunori, Hayashi Kazuyuki, Asada Junko, Hamada Takahiro, Sonobe Seiji, Nakajima Keiji, Hashimoto Takashi
Abstract excerpt
In diffusely growing plant cells, cortical microtubules play an important role in regulating the direction of cell expansion. Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana) spiral2 (spr2) mutant is defective in directional cell elongation and exhibits right-handed helical growth in longitudinally expanding organs such as root, hypocotyl, stem, petiole, and petal. The growth of spr2 roots is more sensitive to...
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