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SUBMITTER: Yadav RK
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3658276 | biostudies-literature | 2013
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Yadav Ram Kishor RK Perales Mariano M Gruel Jérémy J Ohno Carolyn C Heisler Marcus M Girke Thomas T Jönsson Henrik H Reddy G Venugopala GV
Molecular systems biology 20130101
In animal systems, master regulatory transcription factors (TFs) mediate stem cell maintenance through a direct transcriptional repression of differentiation promoting TFs. Whether similar mechanisms operate in plants is not known. In plants, shoot apical meristems serve as reservoirs of stem cells that provide cells for all above ground organs. WUSCHEL, a homeodomain TF produced in cells of the niche, migrates into adjacent cells where it specifies stem cells. Through high-resolution genomic an ...[more]