Abstract
To generate the various tissues and organs that build up the adult body, plants and animals require organized formative cell divisions and correct cell specification. In plants, these processes are controlled mainly by phytohormones and transcriptional networks. Recently, ligand–receptor-like kinase signalling pathways have been revealed as additional potentially crucial regulators of cell specification in plants. We review here the importance of such signalling cascades for plant growth and development, and we discuss, where possible, similarities to well-investigated cascades in animals.
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We thank G. V. Isterdael for assistance in producing the figures and S. Lau, A. Renault, A. Maier and two anonymous referees for critical comments. We wish to apologize to those whose contributions we could not include because of space limitations. This work was supported by the European Molecular Biology organization (postdoctoral fellowship EMBO-ALTF 108-2006 to I.D.S.), Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowship scheme (postdoctoral fellowship FP6 MEIF-CT-2007-041375 to I.D.S.), the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (Ju 179/12-1 and AFGN 179/15-1 to G.J.), and by grants from the Interuniversity Poles of Attraction Program — Belgian Science Policy (Barn contract) to T.B.
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De Smet, I., Voß, U., Jürgens, G. et al. Receptor-like kinases shape the plant. Nat Cell Biol 11, 1166–1173 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1038/ncb1009-1166
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