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Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology 5, 379-391 (May 2004) | doi:10.1038/nrm1364

Article series: Plant Biology

Signals that control plant vascular cell differentiation

Hiroo Fukuda1  About the author

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Plant vascular cells originate from procambial cells, which are vascular stem cells. Recent studies with Zinnia elegans cell culture and Arabidopsis thaliana mutants indicate that intercellular-signalling molecules such as auxin, cytokinin, brassinosteroids and xylogen regulate the maintenance or differentiation of procambial cells through distinct intracellular-signal transduction and gene-expression machineries. This intercellular- and intracellular-signalling system might be involved in determining the continuity and pattern formation of vascular tissues.

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  1. Department of Biological Sciences, Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan.
    Email: fukuda@biol.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp

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