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STEM CELLS

Learning from CIK plants

Nature Plants volume 4, pages 195–196 (2018)Cite this article

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The stem cell niche in plant shoots is maintained by carefully orchestrated feedback between a series of CLAVATA (CLV) receptors and their ligand CLV3, and the transcription factor WUSCHEL. A new clade of co-receptors, CLV3-insensitive receptor kinases (CIKs), provides an important missing link in CLV signalling.

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Fig. 1: CIK co-receptors join the CLV signalling pathway.

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Xu, F., Jackson, D. Learning from CIK plants. Nature Plants 4, 195–196 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41477-018-0125-x

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