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ABSTRACT:
ORGANISM(S): Arabidopsis thaliana
SUBMITTER: Michael Lenhard
PROVIDER: E-GEOD-9201 | biostudies-arrayexpress |
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress
Developmental cell 20071201 6
Plant organs grow to characteristic sizes that are genetically controlled. In animals, signaling by mobile growth factors is thought to be an effective mechanism for measuring primordium size, yet how plants gauge organ size is unclear. Here, we identify the Arabidopsis cytochrome P450 KLUH (KLU)/CYP78A5 as a stimulator of plant organ growth. While klu loss-of-function mutants form smaller organs because of a premature arrest of cell proliferation, KLU overexpression leads to larger organs with ...[more]