BOTANY:
Plant Cells CLEave Their Way to Differentiation
Rüdiger Simon and Yvonne Stahl
Two peptides with very similar amino acid sequences mediate short-range cell-cell signaling in plants. One suppresses and the other promotes the differentiation of stem cells.
The authors are at the Institut für Genetik, Heinrich Heine Universität, 40225 Düsseldorf, Germany. E-mail: ruediger.simon{at}uni-duesseldorf.de