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Transcription switches for protoxylem and metaxylem vessel formation.
Genes & development - 15 Aug 2005
Kubo Minoru, Udagawa Makiko, Nishikubo Nobuyuki, Horiguchi Gorou, Yamaguchi Masatoshi, Ito Jun, Mimura Tetsuro, Fukuda Hiroo, Demura Taku
Abstract excerpt
Land plants evolved xylem vessels to conduct water and nutrients, and to support the plant. Microarray analysis with a newly established Arabidopsis in vitro xylem vessel element formation system and promoter analysis revealed the possible involvement of some plant-specific NAC-domain transcription factors in xylem formation. VASCULAR-RELATED NAC-DOMAIN6 (VND6) and VND7 can induce transdifferentiation of various...
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