Hormone Cytokinin Determines Organ Size During Plant Development (1 of 3) (IMAGE)

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Hormone Cytokinin Determines Organ Size During Plant Development (1 of 3)

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The model plant is shown: Arabidopsis thaliana. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Jan. 29, 2016, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by J. Gruel at University of Cambridge in Cambridge, UK, and colleagues was titled, "An epidermis-driven mechanism positions and scales stem cell niches in plants."

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[Credit: Benoit Landrein]

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