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APETALA2 regulates the stem cell niche in the Arabidopsis shoot meristem.
The Plant cell - 1 Feb 2006
Würschum Tobias, Gross-Hardt Rita, Laux Thomas
Abstract excerpt
Postembryonic organ formation in higher plants relies on the activity of stem cell niches in shoot and root meristems where differentiation of the resident cells is repressed by signals from surrounding cells. We searched for mutations affecting stem cell maintenance and isolated the semidominant l28 mutant, which displays premature termination of the shoot meristem and differentiation of the stem cells. Allele...
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