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An atypical bHLH transcription factor regulates early xylem development downstream of auxin.
Plant & cell physiology - 1 Mar 2013
Ohashi-Ito Kyoko, Matsukawa Manami, Fukuda Hiroo
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The vascular system in plants, which comprises xylem, phloem and vascular stem cells, originates from provascular cells and forms a continuous network throughout the plant body. Although various aspects of vascular development have been extensively studied, the early process of vascular development remains largely unknown. LONESOME HIGHWAY (LHW), which encodes an atypical basic helix-loop-helix (bHLH)...
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