Open AccessControlling Size in Multicellular Organs: Focus on the Leaf
Author(s) -
Hirokazu Tsukaya
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
plos biology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 4.127
H-Index - 271
eISSN - 1545-7885
pISSN - 1544-9173
DOI - 10.1371/journal.pbio.0060174
Subject(s) - biology , multicellular organism , focus (optics) , evolutionary biology , computational biology , genetics , cell , physics , optics
In leaves, cells get larger as cell division decreases or the ploidy increases. This might seem a logical response, but the controls are more complicated.
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