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The PINHEAD/ZWILLE gene acts pleiotropically in Arabidopsis development and has overlapping functions with the ARGONAUTE1 gene.
Development (Cambridge, England) - 1 Feb 1999
Lynn K, Fernandez A, Aida M, Sedbrook J, Tasaka M, Masson P, Barton M K
Abstract excerpt
Several lines of evidence indicate that the adaxial leaf domain possesses a unique competence to form shoot apical meristems. Factors required for this competence are expected to cause a defect in shoot apical meristem formation when inactivated and to be expressed or active preferentially in the adaxial leaf domain. PINHEAD, a member of a family of proteins that includes the translation factor eIF2C, is required...
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