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Cover Caption: Translational Plant Biology
Publication year - 2015
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.12270
Subject(s) - trichome , multicellular organism , biology , cloning (programming) , leucine zipper , gene , mutant , genetics , microbiology and biotechnology , computational biology , botany , transcription factor , computer science , programming language
Multicellular trichomes in cucumber provides a model for elucidating cell diff erentiation. In this issue, Zhao et al. (pp. 925–935) studied a spontaneous micro‐trichome ( mict ) mutant with dense and poorly developed trichomes, and performed map‐based cloning of the Mict gene. Mict encodes a class I homeodomain‐leucine zipper protein and is expressed specifically in trichome cells.