title: Root development: quiescent center not so mute after all.
abstract: Many functions have been attributed to the quiescent center of a root apical meristem, from stem cell reservoir to pattern-generating center. Limited laser ablation of the quiescent center in Arabidopsis has now revealed that it acts to suppress differentiation and to maintain the surrounding initial cells as stem cells.
authors.affiliation: Plant Biology Lab, The Salk Institute, 10010 N. Torrey Pines, La Jolla, California 92037, USA.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Doerner
mesh_terms: D017360:Arabidopsis; D002454:Cell Differentiation; D018519:Meristem; D018517:Plant Roots / Q000166:cytology* / Q000254:growth & development