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Plant stem cells: the only constant thing is change
1Institute of Cell and Molecular Biology, University of Edinburgh, Swann Building, EH9 3JR, Scotland, Edinburgh, UK. Peter.Doerner@ed.ac.uk
Current Biology : CB
|December 5, 2000
Abstract:
Recent studies in Arabidopsis have uncovered a negative feedback loop that couples the antagonistic functions of the WUSCHEL and CLAVATA loci to control stem cell fate in the shoot apical meristem. Abundance of the CLAVATA3 protein limits signaling through this pathway.