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Local cues and asymmetric cell divisions underpin body plan transitions in the moss Physcomitrella patens.
Current biology : CB - 24 Mar 2009
Harrison C Jill, Roeder Adrienne H K, Meyerowitz Elliot M, Langdale Jane A
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BACKGROUND: Land plants evolved from aquatic algae more than 450 million years ago. Algal sisters of land plants grow through the activity of apical initial cells that cleave either in one plane to generate filaments or in two planes to generate mats. Acquisition of the capacity for cell cleavage...
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