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

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Part of the book series: Methods in Molecular Biology ((MIMB,volume 2094))

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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.

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  1. Key Laboratory of Plant Cell Engineering and Germplasm Innovation, Ministry of Education, School of Life Sciences, Shandong University, Jinan, China

    Aqib Syed

  2. Department of Botany, Garden Campus, Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan, Mardan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan

    Anwar Hussain & Waheed Murad

  3. Department of Agriculture, Garden Campus, Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan, Mardan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan

    Badshah Islam

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Syed, A., Hussain, A., Murad, W., Islam, B. (2020). Regulatory Role of Phytohormones in Maintaining Stem Cells and Boundaries of Stem Cell Niches. In: Naseem, M., Dandekar, T. (eds) Plant Stem Cells. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 2094. Humana, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-0716-0183-9_1

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