How plant cells measure themselves and why it matters

Date
Wednesday November 16, 2022
Time
12 - 1 p.m.
Location
Remote via Zoom
Location
Off Campus
Presenter(s)
Robert Sablowski
About this event
Across biological kingdoms, cell size has important developmental and physiological roles, but its regulation remains unclear [1]. In the Arabidopsis shoot stem cell niche, cell size is one of the features that is maintained in a steady state over long periods of cell proliferation. We have found that meristem cell size is maintained by a feedback between cell growth and cell cycle progression...