Open AccessAuxin Paves the Way for Planar Morphogenesis
Author(s) -
Stefano Pietra,
Markus Grebe
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
cell
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 26.304
H-Index - 776
eISSN - 1097-4172
pISSN - 0092-8674
DOI - 10.1016/j.cell.2010.09.029
Subject(s) - biology , morphogenesis , microbiology and biotechnology , auxin , planar , genetics , gene , computer graphics (images) , computer science
The coordinated growth of epidermal cells in plant leaves creates the characteristic jigsaw puzzle appearance of the pavement cells. Now, Xu et al. (2010) report that AUXIN-BINDING PROTEIN 1 mediates auxin activation of two GTPase pathways that antagonistically control planar morphogenesis of leaf epidermal cells to create this distinctive pattern.
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