Cell division – Plant en Zo

By stress hit pause

Stresses, like cold and salt stress, impact plant growth. Not only during the stress but also during the recovery. Now Canadian researchers discovered how during stress plants pause their cell division, which they continue after the stress is gone.

Each growth centre cell type its own complex

In a plant’s growth centre there are lots of proteins involved in the regulation of cell divisions. Now German and Dutch researchers show in EMBO reports the interaction of those proteins in root growth centre.

TOPP puts an end to the pause

Equal distribution of all chromosomes is an essential part of cell division. A new study in Science Advances shows how the cell knows this criterion has been met.

Pressurised division

Pressurised division How a cell divides influences how a plant looks. A new study in Developmental Cell shows how the orientation of microtubules influences were the orientation of the dividing wall in the dividing cell. Due to their cell wall plant cells are connected to each other. In this way the orientation of a cellContinue reading “Pressurised division”