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SUBMITTER: Gruel J
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4846443 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Gruel Jérémy J Landrein Benoit B Tarr Paul P Schuster Christoph C Schuster Christoph C Refahi Yassin Y Sampathkumar Arun A Hamant Olivier O Meyerowitz Elliot M EM Jönsson Henrik H
Science advances 20160129 1
How molecular patterning scales to organ size is highly debated in developmental biology. We explore this question for the characteristic gene expression domains of the plant stem cell niche residing in the shoot apical meristem. We show that a combination of signals originating from the epidermal cell layer can correctly pattern the key gene expression domains and notably leads to adaptive scaling of these domains to the size of the tissue. Using live imaging, we experimentally confirm this pre ...[more]