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Originally published in Science Express on 6 October 2005
Science 28 October 2005:
Vol. 310. no. 5748, pp. 663 - 667
DOI: 10.1126/science.1116261
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Stem-Cell Homeostasis and Growth Dynamics Can Be Uncoupled in the Arabidopsis Shoot Apex

G. Venugopala Reddy and Elliot M. Meyerowitz*

The shoot apical meristem (SAM) is a collection of stem cells that resides at the tip of each shoot and provides the cells of the shoot. It is divided into functional regions. The central zone (CZ) at the tip of the meristem is the domain of expression of the CLAVATA3 (CLV3) gene, encoding a putative ligand for a transmembrane receptor kinase, CLAVATA1, active in cells of the rib meristem (RM), located just below the CZ. We show here that CLV3 restricts its own domain of expression (the CZ) by preventing differentiation of peripheral zone cells (PZ), which surround the CZ, into CZ cells and restricts overall SAM size by a separate, long-range effect on cell division rate.

California Institute of Technology, Division of Biology, MC 156-29, 1200 East California Boulevard, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA.

* To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: meyerow{at}its.caltech.edu

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