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The differentiation of rhizodermal cells in grasses

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Structure and Function of Plant Roots

Part of the book series: Developments in Plant and Soil Sciences ((DPSS,volume 4))

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It is the purpose of the present communication to demonstrate the cell lineages in rhizodermis of festucoid (wheat) and panicoid (maize) grasses. The developmental potentials of individual rhizodermal cells were investigated taking into account that cells in longitudinal files represent the progenies of the same initials. The cytological mechanisms of cell diversification were also studied. The investigations were conducted with the aid of cytomorphological techniques and X-irradiation (10kR) which selectively inhibited the mitoses, but did not prevent cell elongation and differentiation.

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  1. Institute of General and Inorganic Chemistry of the Academy of Sciences of the U.S.S.R, 117071, Moscow, U.S.S.R.

    Victor N. Filippenko

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  1. Botanical Laboratory, State University of Utrecht, Lange Nieuwstraat, 106-3512 PN, Utrecht, The Netherlands

    R. Brouwer

  2. Institute of Experimental Biology and Ecology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, 885 34, Bratislava, Czechoslovakia

    O. Gašparíková

  3. Institute of Experimental Biology and Ecology SAV, 885 34, Bratislava, Czechoslovakia

    J. Kolek

  4. Department of Agricultural Science, University of Oxford, Parks Road, OX1 3PP, Oxford, UK

    B. C. Loughman

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Filippenko, V.N. (1981). The differentiation of rhizodermal cells in grasses. In: Brouwer, R., Gašparíková, O., Kolek, J., Loughman, B.C. (eds) Structure and Function of Plant Roots. Developments in Plant and Soil Sciences, vol 4. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-8314-4_19

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