Signal proteins for plant stem cells discovered

Thursday, March 11, 2010 - 17:28 in Biology & Nature

Wageningen University (The Netherlands) biochemist Dolf Weijers and his German colleagues have discovered how stem cells in a plant embryo are formed. The cells communicate with one another via the transportation of a protein, reports Weijers this week in Nature.

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