title: Microtubule-organizing centers in higher plants.
abstract: Compelling evidence has recently been obtained for the idea that the nuclear surface of higher plant cells has a microtubule-nucleating function under cell cycle dependent control. Whatever the final organization of microtubules, they all seem to originate in the nuclear periphery. The spatial distribution of microtubules is a secondary process involving actin and microtubule-associated proteins, and other morphogenetic controls. How microtubules are nucleated and/or reorganized at the spindle poles during mitosis remains unknown.
authors.affiliation: Institut de Biologie Moléculaire des Plantes, Université Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, France.
authors.forename: A M
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Lambert
mesh_terms: D000199:Actins / Q000378:metabolism; D002453:Cell Cycle; D002467:Cell Nucleus / Q000648:ultrastructure*; D008870:Microtubules / Q000648:ultrastructure*; D008938:Mitosis; D015388:Organelles / Q000648:ultrastructure; D010944:Plants / Q000648:ultrastructure*; D008941:Spindle Apparatus / Q000648:ultrastructure; D014404:Tubulin / Q000378:metabolism
chemical_list: D000199:Actins; D014404:Tubulin