Plant Cell Structure Could Hold Key to Cancer Therapies and Improved Crops (IMAGE)

University of California - Davis

Plant Cell Structure Could Hold Key to Cancer Therapies and Improved Crops

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Arabidopsis plant with defective augmin (right and inset) does not grow compared to a control plant (left). Some weedkillers attack the augmin system. In plants, augmin is involved both in cell division and in building and maintaining the cell wall. In humans, it is implicated in cancer and infertility. 

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Liu lab, UC Davis

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