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Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology 5, 13-23 (January 2004) | doi:10.1038/nrm1277
Article series: Plant Biology
Microtubules and the shape of plants to come
Clive Lloyd1 & Jordi Chan1 About the authors
Abstract
Plants control the direction of cell expansion as a way of shaping growth. Since their discovery in plants 40 years ago, microtubules have been suspected of forming a template that helps to regulate the direction of growth. The detailed mechanism, however, has been elusive, especially as plants lack a microtubule-organizing centre. Developmental mutants are now beginning to show how microtubules are organized and how this affects plant morphology.
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Author affiliations
- Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, John Innes Centre, Norwich NR4 7UH, UK.
Correspondence to: Clive Lloyd1 Email: clive.lloyd@bbsrc.ac.uk
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