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Coupling cell proliferation and development in plants

Nature Cell Biology volume 7, pages 535–541 (2005)Cite this article

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Plant genome projects have revealed that both the cell-cycle components and the overall cell-cycle architecture are highly evolutionarily conserved. In addition to the temporal and spatial regulation of cell-cycle progression in individual cells, multicellularity has imposed extra layers of complexity that impinge on the balance of cell proliferation and growth, differentiation and organogenesis. In contrast to animals, organogenesis in plants is a postembryonic and continuous process. Differentiated plant cells can revert to a pluripotent state, proliferate and transdifferentiate. This unique potential is strikingly illustrated by the ability of certain cells to produce a mass of undifferentiated cells or a fully totipotent embryo, which can regenerate mature plants. Conversely, plant cells are highly resistant to oncogenic transformation. This review discusses the role that cell-cycle regulators may have at the interface between cell division and differentiation, and in the context of the high plasticity of plant cells.

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Figure 1: The A. thaliana life cycle.
Figure 2: The retinoblastoma/E2F/DP pathway in A. thaliana.
Figure 3: Tentative integration of the RB/E2F/DP cell cycle pathway into cell growth, stem cell physiology, cell-cycle reactivation and development.

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My apologies to colleagues whose work has not been cited here due to space restrictions. Thanks to many colleagues for discussions and to M. Serrano, M. A. Blasco, E. Martinez-Salas, J. A. Tercero and members of my laboratory for discussions and comments on the manuscript. Our work is supported by grants BMC2003-2131 (MCyT), MCFI-2001-00509 (EU) and 07B/053/2002 (CAM), and by an institutional grant from Fundación Ramón Areces.

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