Epidermis cell differentiation in Arabidopsis thaliana is a model system for understanding the mechanisms leading to the developmental end state of plant cells. Both root hairs and trichomes differentiate from epidermal cells and molecular genetic analyses using Arabidopsis mutants have demonstrated that the differentiation of root hairs and trichomes is regulated by similar molecular mechanisms. Molecular-genetic approaches have led to the identification of many genes that are involved in epidermal cell differentiation, most of which encode transcription factors that induce the expression of genes active in both root hair and trichome development. Control of cell growth after fate determination has also been studied using Arabidopsis mutants.
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文献种类:期刊
期刊名称: International Review of Cell and Molecular Biology
期刊缩写: Int Rev Cell Mol Biol
期卷页: 2011年第286卷 67-106页
地址: Interdisciplinary Research Organization, University of Miyazaki, Gakuen Kibanadai-nishi, Miyazaki, Japan