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Plant meristems: a ménage à trois to end it all
1Institute of Cell and Molecular Biology, University of Edinburgh, Michael Swann Building, Edinburgh EH9 3JR, Scotland, UK. Peter.Doerner@ed.ac.uk
Current Biology : CB
|October 10, 2001
Abstract:
Regulated termination of stem cell maintenance is required to complete reproductive development in plants. Two recent studies have revealed a new relationship for some old suspects; the WUSCHEL gene, which promotes indeterminancy, is involved as well as the floral regulators LEAFY and AGAMOUS.