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Studying Cell Cycle-regulated Gene Expression by Two Complementary Cell Synchronization Protocols
Published on: June 6, 2017
Tuning the cell-cycle engine for improved plant performance
Gerrit T S Beemster1, Vladimir Mironov, Dirk Inzé
1Department of Plant Systems Biology, Flanders Interuniversity Institute for Biotechnology (VIB)/Ghent University, Technologiepark 927, Ghent, Belgium.
Abstract:
Cell-cycle regulation plays a crucial role in organogenesis, morphogenesis, growth and differentiation and conceptually offers a means to design a next generation of crop plants that outperform traditionally bred ones. However, cell-cycle regulation involves a large, highly redundant, set of genes, which complicates unravelling of function in the context of a higher plant. Nevertheless, ten years of molecular cell-cycle research, primarily in the model plant Arabidopsis, have demonstrated its potential for altering plant development.
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