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Regulatory Role of Phytohormones in Maintaining Stem Cells and Boundaries of Stem Cell Niches

  • Aqib Syed
  • Anwar HussainEmail author
  • Waheed Murad
  • Badshah Islam
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Part of the Methods in Molecular Biology book series (MIMB, volume 2094)

Abstract

Plants are multicellular organism composed of different types of cells. These all kinds of cells are formed from pluripotent stem cells present at different positions in plant called stem cell niches. All these stem cell niches and their boundaries are maintained by complex regulatory mechanism at molecular level involving different genes, cofactors, and phytohormones. In this chapter, we discussed the regulatory mechanism and models of stem cell maintenance, specifying their boundaries at different stem cell niches.

Key words

Stem cell niches Arabidopsis Cytokinin Auxin and jasmonic acid 
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Authors and Affiliations

  • Aqib Syed
    • 1
  • Anwar Hussain
    • 2
    Email author
  • Waheed Murad
    • 2
  • Badshah Islam
    • 3
  1. 1.Key Laboratory of Plant Cell Engineering and Germplasm Innovation, Ministry of Education, School of Life SciencesShandong UniversityJinanChina
  2. 2.Department of Botany, Garden CampusAbdul Wali Khan University MardanMardanPakistan
  3. 3.Department of Agriculture, Garden CampusAbdul Wali Khan University MardanMardanPakistan

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