Friday 8 February 2019

ARTICLE: Plant stem cells strive towards equality

Jackson, Matthew DB, et al. "Global Topological Order Emerges through Local Mechanical Control of Cell Divisions in the Arabidopsis Shoot Apical Meristem." Cell Systems 8 53 (2019).
 
We recently wrote this paper (available in Cell Systems here -- and featured on the journal's front cover below!) about how cells are globally organised through local behaviour in an important plant organ. There's a blog article about the paper on "The Node", a developmental biology blog, here:

http://thenode.biologists.com/plant-stem-cells-strive-towards-equality/research/