Tuning the cell-cycle engine for improved plant performance.
Cell-cycle regulation plays a crucial role in organogenesis, morphogenesis, growth and differentiation and conceptually offers a means to design a next generation of crop plants that outperform traditionally bred ones. However, cell-cycle regulation involves a large, highly redundant, set of genes, which complicates unravelling of function in the context of a higher plant. Nevertheless, ten years of molecular cell-cycle research, primarily in the model plant Arabidopsis, have demonstrated its potential for altering plant development.
Beemster
Gerrit T S
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Department of Plant Systems Biology, Flanders Interuniversity Institute for Biotechnology (VIB)/Ghent University, Technologiepark 927, Ghent, Belgium.
Mironov
Vladimir
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Inzé
Dirk
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D017360:Arabidopsis / Q000235:genetics / Q000502:physiology*; D001709:Biotechnology / Q000379:methods*; D002453:Cell Cycle; D002454:Cell Differentiation; D049109:Cell Proliferation; D018521:Plant Physiological Phenomena; D030821:Plants, Genetically Modified; D013997:Time Factors