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Morphogenesis on the move: cell-to-cell trafficking of plant regulatory proteins
1United States Department of Agriculture, University of California at Berkeley Plant Gene Expression Center, Albany 94710, USA. djackson@nature.berkeley.edu
Current Opinion in Genetics & Development
|August 1, 1997
Abstract:
It has been shown recently that some plant transcription factors that regulate cell fate during development can traffic through plasmodesmata-the intercellular channels that connect plant cells. This phenomenon helps explain the non-autonomous effects of many developmental mutations in plants and defines a novel mechanism by which cells signal to each other during development.