Evolution of buffering in a genetic circuit controlling plant stem cell proliferation. Nature Genetics, 2019; DOI: 10.1038/s41588-019-0389-8; Cite This Page: MLA; APA; Chicago; ...

Totipotent stem cells allow plants to build new organs throughout their whole life. But it has been unclear how hormones and genetic factors work together to prevent plants from having growth that ...

When it comes to stem cell management, all flowering plants work to maintain the same status quo. Researchers have now identified the various strategies plants use to preserve a single, essential ...

If stem cells were able to multiply uncontrollably, this would lead to uncontrolled growth, as in the case of cancer. WOX5 is an important signaling molecule that regulates stem cells in the meristem.

Although plant scientists already knew that stem cells play a vital role in plant growth and development, "in this work, we find that CrHAM regulates meristem indeterminacy, which means that their ...

They found that the plant stem acts like a fibre-optic cable, conducting light down to receptors in the roots known as phytochromes.These trigger the production of a protein called HY5, which ...