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Cell size controlled in plants using DNA content as an internal scale.
Science (New York, N.Y.) - 11 Jun 2021
D'Ario Marco, Tavares Rafael, Schiessl Katharina, Desvoyes Bénédicte, Gutierrez Crisanto, Howard Martin, Sablowski Robert
Abstract excerpt
How eukaryotic cells assess and maintain sizes specific for their species and cell type remains unclear. We show that in the Arabidopsis shoot stem cell niche, cell size variability caused by asymmetric divisions is corrected by adjusting the growth period before DNA synthesis. KIP-related protein 4 (KRP4) inhibits progression to DNA synthesis and associates with mitotic chromosomes. The F BOX-LIKE 17 (FBL17)...
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