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Lateral Root Inducible System in Arabidopsis and Maize
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Published on: January 14, 2016

Stepwise understanding of root development.

Minako Ueda1, Yoshihiro Koshino-Kimura, Kiyotaka Okada

  • 1Department of Botany, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University, Kitashirakawa-Oiwake-cho, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8502, Japan. m-ueda@ok-lab.bot.kyoto-u.ac.jp

Current Opinion in Plant Biology
|January 18, 2005
PubMed
Summary

This study outlines a three-step framework for root development in Arabidopsis, involving positional signals, transcription factor networks, and gene expression for cell differentiation. Novel methods identify genes controlling root pattern formation.

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