title: Border cells versus border-like cells: are they alike?
abstract: Roots of many plants are known to produce large numbers of 'border' cells that play a central role in root protection and the interaction of the root with the rhizosphere. Unlike border cells, border-like cells were described only recently in the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana and other Brassicaceae species and very little is known about the functional properties of border-like cells as compared with 'classical' border cells. To stimulate discussion and future research on this topic, the function of border cells and the way border-like cells are organized, maintained, and possibly involved in plant protection is discussed here.
authors.affiliation: Laboratoire Glyco-MEV, IFRMP 23, Plate-forme de Recherche en Imagerie Cellulaire de Haute Normandie, Université de Rouen, F-76821 Mont Saint Aignan, France. azeddine.driouich@univ-rouen.fr
authors.forename: Azeddine
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Driouich
authors.forename: Caroline
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Durand
authors.forename: Marc-Antoine
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Cannesan
authors.forename: Giuseppe
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Percoco
authors.forename: Maité
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Vicré-Gibouin
mesh_terms: D017360:Arabidopsis / Q000166:cytology; D019607:Brassicaceae / Q000166:cytology* / Q000502:physiology; D002473:Cell Wall / Q000378:metabolism; D010940:Plant Proteins / Q000502:physiology; D018517:Plant Roots / Q000166:cytology*
chemical_list: D010940:Plant Proteins