title: Stomatal development: a plant's perspective on cell polarity, cell fate transitions and intercellular communication.
abstract: The plant stomatal lineage manifests features common to many developmental contexts: precursor cells are chosen from an initially equivalent field of cells, undergo asymmetric and self-renewing divisions, communicate among themselves and respond to information from a distance. As we review here, the experimental accessibility of these epidermal lineages, particularly in Arabidopsis, has made stomata a conceptual and technical framework for the study of cell fate, stem cells, and cell polarity in plants.
authors.affiliation: Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305-5020,  USA.
authors.forename: On Sun
authors.initials: OS
authors.lastname: Lau
authors.forename: Dominique C
authors.initials: DC
authors.lastname: Bergmann
mesh_terms: D017360:Arabidopsis / Q000254:growth & development; D002450:Cell Communication; D016764:Cell Polarity; D020935:MAP Kinase Signaling System; D063245:Plant Development; D054046:Plant Stomata / Q000254:growth & development*