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Tip Growth and Polarity

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The Growing Fungus

Abstract

Cells are said to exhibit polarized cell development or tip growth when the expansion of the cell surface is focused at one location. The term polarity has also been used in the context of mechanisms that establish new sites for growth, either by budding, germ tube formation or by branching. This chapter considers how tip growth and cell polarity are established, maintained and regulated in fungal cells.

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