Importance of symplasmic communication in cell differentiation

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Marek Marzec1, Ewa Kurczynska2

  • 1Department of Genetics; Faculty of Biology and Environmental Protection; University of Silesia; Katowice, Poland.

Plant Signaling & Behavior
|January 31, 2014
PubMed

Keywords:
Arabidopsis thalianaHordeum vulgarecell differentiationplasmodesmataroot epidermissomatic and zygotic embryogenesissymplasmic domain

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