title: Cytokinesis in higher plants.
abstract: Cytokinesis partitions the cytoplasm between two or more nuclei. In higher plants, cytokinesis is initiated by cytoskeleton-assisted targeted delivery of membrane vesicles to the plane of cell division, followed by local membrane fusion to generate tubulo-vesicular networks. This initial phase of cytokinesis is essentially the same in diverse modes of plant cytokinesis whereas the subsequent transformation of the tubulo-vesicular networks into the partitioning membrane may be different between systems. This review focuses on membrane and cytoskeleton dynamics in cell plate formation and expansion during somatic cytokinesis.
authors.affiliation: ZMBP, Entwicklungsgenetik, Universität Tübingen, 72076 Tübingen, Germany. gerd.juergens@zmbp.uni-tuebingen.de
authors.forename: Gerd
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Jürgens
mesh_terms: D002453:Cell Cycle; D002462:Cell Membrane / Q000502:physiology; D003599:Cytoskeleton / Q000502:physiology; D059828:Plant Cells