Cellular coordination controlling organ separation and surface integrity in plants.

Cellular coordination controlling organ separation and surface integrity in plants. BMB Rep. 2018 Jul 03;: Authors: Lee Y, Kwak JM Abstract Plants are unable to relocate themselves to a more favorable location and thus have to deal with developmental programs and environmental cues wherever they happen to be. It is yet largely unknown as to how plant cells coordinate cellular activities and architectures to accomplish developmental processes and responses to environmental change. By identifying and establishing a new cellular model system, we have recently uncovered that two neighboring cell types in abscission zone (AZ) of Arabidopsis flowers coordinate physiological states and elaborate differential cellular architectures to precisely separate organs. From this perspective, we further discuss the essence of cellular coordination in AZ, the key molecules controlling the organ separation, and relevant implications. PMID: 29966583 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
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