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Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology 5, 712-726 (September 2004) | doi:10.1038/nrm1470
Article series: Plant Biology
Plasmodesmata as a supracellular control network in plants
William J. Lucas1 & Jung-Youn Lee2 About the authors
Abstract
The evolution of intercellular communication had an important role in the increasing complexity of both multicellular and supracellular organisms. Plasmodesmata, the intercellular organelles of the plant kingdom, establish an effective pathway for local and long-distance signalling. In higher plants, this pathway involves the trafficking of proteins and various forms of RNA that function non-cell-autonomously to affect developmental programmes.
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Author affiliations
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Department of Plant Biology, University of California, Davis, California 95616, USA.
Email: wjlucas@ucdavis.edu -
Department of Plant and Soil Sciences, Delaware Biotechnology Institute, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware 19711, USA.
Email: lee@dbi.udel.edu
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