Morphogenesis on the move: cell-to-cell trafficking of plant regulatory proteins.
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.
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United States Department of Agriculture, University of California at Berkeley Plant Gene Expression Center, Albany 94710, USA. djackson@nature.berkeley.edu
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D001692:Biological Transport; D002450:Cell Communication; D019070:Cell Lineage; D018507:Gene Expression Regulation, Developmental; D018506:Gene Expression Regulation, Plant; D009024:Morphogenesis; D059828:Plant Cells; D063245:Plant Development; D010940:Plant Proteins / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D010944:Plants / Q000378:metabolism
D010940:Plant Proteins