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Regeneration finds a new friend

Bisht et al. Identify key factors in wound-activated regenerative cell division. Jefri Heyman1,2 and Lieven De Veylder1,2 1Department of Plant Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, Ghent University, Ghent, B-9052, Belgium. 2VIB Center for Plant Systems Biology, Ghent, B-9052, Belgium. Background:…

A new road to resolve DNA replication stress

Ting Pan et al. reveal a molecular mechanism to deal with DNA replication stress in Arabidopsis. The Plant Cell (2022). Ting Pan, Shan Gao, Xiaoyu Cui, Lili Wang and Shunping Yan College of Life Science and Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, Hubei 430070, China  Background:…

Review: Cycling in a crowd: coordination of plant cell division, growth and cell fate (Plant Cell)

Unlike animal cells, plant cells cannot migrate due to the presence of interconnected rigid cell walls, thus plant development relies on a continuous supply of new cells, (fueled by the cell cycle) to form new organs throughout their life. This excellent review by Sablowski and Gutierrez focuses on the…

Deceleration of cell cycle underpins a switch from proliferative-to-terminal division in plant stomatal lineage (bioRxiv)

Precise cell cycle control is essential for the differentiation of specialized cell types. Stomata, essential pores for gas exchange located in the epidermis, are generated via proliferative asymmetric cell division (ACD) of a transient stem cell called a meristemoid, which will give rise to a guard…