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Cell division in plants is one component of the process of organogenesis. In the case of roots, division can be viewed from two perspectives, one relating to its structural role in blocking out the cellularized pattern of the organ, the other emphasising its functional importance in supplying cells for growth. In neither case is division directly relevant to tissue differentiation since this probably results from positional cues superimposed on the cellularized whole; new cells created by division are, however, the units in which differentiation is accomplished. The structural aspect of division in relation to organogenesis emphasises the orientation of the new cell walls in various regions of the meristem. It also recognises two basic classes of division, the formative and the proliferative, properties of which are illustrated with examples from tomato and maize roots, respectively. Formative divisions occur in a programmed sequence which has been worked out for the cortex and the cap/dermatogen cell complexes. Programmes also govern the proliferative divisions and details are given of two of these for stele and cortex. Since the division sequences are recursive, they are amenable to analysis by means of L-systems. These afford an opportunity to formalize the portion of the epigenetic code that applies to cell patterning. At the deeper, cytological level, the code may resolve into recursive patterns of microtubule behaviour.
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Barlow, P.W. (1993). The cell division cycle in relation to root organogenesis. In: Ormrod, J.C., Francis, D. (eds) Molecular and Cell Biology of the Plant Cell Cycle. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-1789-0_14
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