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Cover Caption: KATANIN in Phragmoplasts
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
journal of integrative plant biology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.734
H-Index - 83
eISSN - 1744-7909
pISSN - 1672-9072
DOI - 10.1111/jipb.12225
Subject(s) - phragmoplast , cytokinesis , cell plate , botany , cell division , microbiology and biotechnology , biology , cell , genetics
The morphology and size of phragmoplast, a novel plant cell‐specific apparatus in cytokinesis, are strictly regulated. In this issue, Wan et al. (pp. 622–634) showed in KATANIN P80 over‐expression rice plants that the phragmoplast is lengthened while the distance between two daughter nuclei is shortened. Consequently, root growth in those lines is retarded, suggesting an important role of KATANIN in cytokinesis.