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Posted by Vivian Irish, on 27 July 2020
By Fei Zhang and Vivian F. Irish Flowering plants, from giant sequoias to miniscule duckweed, all depend on the action of small populations of cells, called meristems, to grow. Meristems ...Posted by Knowable Magazine, on 17 February 2020
From Knowable Magazine’s Special Report: Building Bodies. For an introduction to the series see Eva Emerson and Rosie Mestel’s Node post. How do trees find their sense of direction as ...Posted by BSDB, on 17 January 2020
Established by the British Society for Developmental Biology in 2014, The Gurdon/The Company of Biologists Summer Studentship scheme provides financial support to allow highly motivated undergraduate students an opportunity to engage ...Posted by Imtiyaz Ahmad Khanday, on 29 January 2019
The story behind our recent Nature paper ‘A male-expressed rice embryogenic trigger redirected for asexual propagation through seeds‘ For sexually reproducing organisms, the diploid life cycle starts with the fusion ...Posted by the Node Interviews, on 16 January 2019
This interview, the 53rd in our series, was published in Development last year The ability to sense and respond to light is fundamental to plant development. As seedlings move from the soil ...Posted by the Node Interviews, on 18 July 2018
Asymmetric division is a widespread mechanism for generating cellular diversity during developmental patterning. The stomata of flowering plants are epidermal valves that regulate gas exchange, and provide an accessible system to investigate the mechanisms ...Posted by the Node Interviews, on 25 May 2018
Short CLE peptides regulate a wide variety of processes during plant development. In the developing root, the receptors and co-receptors for CLEs have remained largely unclear, as have the relationships ...Posted by the Node, on 23 January 2018
In April, The Company of Biologists is hosting a workshop ‘Cellular gateways: expanding the role of endocytosis in plant development‘, organised by Jenny Rusinova, Takashi Ueda and Daniel van Damme. ...Posted by JiyanQI, on 10 January 2018
Before I started my PhD study, I didn’t notice that leaves have two sides: the adaxial side and the abaxial side. When my supervisor Dr. Yuling Jiao first asked me ...Posted by the Node Interviews, on 29 November 2017
Pavement cells in plant leaves were identified as a puzzle which deviated from normal cell shape rules by D’Arcy Thompson in his classic text On Growth and Form. Now modern approaches ...