Molecular chaperones traffic signaling proteins between cells in plant stem-cell maintenance pathway
Thursday, August 25, 2011 - 13:30
in Biology & Nature
Like all living things, plants depend for their growth and sustenance on elaborate signaling networks to maintain stem cells, cells that have an almost magical regenerative capacity. The signals sent through these networks convey an incredible diversity of instructions, which make it possible for plants to follow genetic and cellular programs regulating growth, shape, and energy production and consumption.