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1: Genome Biol. 2001;2(1):REVIEWS1002. Epub 2001 Jan 9.Click here to read Click here to read Links

Leaving the meristem behind: regulation of KNOX genes.

Barton M.

Department of Genetics, Henry Mall, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706, USA. mkbarton@facstaff.wisc.edu

The mechanism by which the plant reserves some cells as pluripotent stem cells while partitioning others into differentiated leaf tissue is fundamental to plant development. New work in Arabidopsis elucidates the genetic circuitry that distinguishes meristem from leaf.

PMID: 11178282 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

PMCID: PMC150439