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Cytodifferentiation in isolated single cells

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Isolated mesophyll cells ofZinnia elegans synchronously differentiate to tracheary elements at a high frequency when cultured in a liquid medium containing naphth-aleneacetic acid and benzyladenine. An experimental system with the isolatedZinnia mesophyll cells has been extensively used as an efficient model system for the study of cytodifferentiation in higher plants, providing many valuable results on cytodifferentiation. In this review, I introduce the results obtained with theZinnia system and discuss the induction and the sequence of differentiation.

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Abbreviations

MT (s):

microtubule (s)

TE(s):

tracheary element (s)

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Recipient of the Botanical Society Award for Young Scientists, 1987.

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Fukuda, H. Cytodifferentiation in isolated single cells. Bot. Mag. Tokyo 102, 491–501 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02488130

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