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Mobile protein signals cell fate

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In plant roots, different cell types are organized in a well-defined pattern: each cell knows exactly where it is and what it should do. A molecule that tells cells where they are has now been discovered.

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Figure 1: The organization of cell types in the tip of an Arabidopsis root.
Figure 2: Patterning the roots.

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  1. United States Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service, Plant Gene Expression Center, and the University of California at Berkeley, 800 Buchanan Street, Albany, 94710, California, USA

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Hake, S. Mobile protein signals cell fate. Nature 413, 261–263 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1038/35095143

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