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Meristematic Activity in Relation to Wound Xylem Differentiation

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The Dynamics of Meristem Cell Populations

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Many plant tissues and organs display a biphasic growth response. During the first phase, growth is brought about primarily by an increase in cell number, with little change in the average cell size. As the rate of cell division declines, the second mode of growth is exhibited in which the average cell size increases as many of the derivatives become characteristically differentiated, but these changes are accompanied by a comparatively small increase in cell number, if any. This developmental pattern is typical of root growth,6,15,23 wnere the two growth processes tend to be spatially separated, and of leaf growth,9,28,33 where the two processes tend to be separated in time.

The author would like to thank Dr. John G. Torrey, Harvard University, in whose laboratory this study was conducted.

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  1. Department of Developmental and Cell Biology, University of California, Irvine, California, 92664, USA

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  1. Department of Radiation Biology and Biophysics School of Medicine and Dentistry, The University of Rochester, Rochester, New York, USA

    Morton W. Miller

  2. Department of Biology, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York, USA

    Charles C. Kuehnert

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Fosket, D.E. (1972). Meristematic Activity in Relation to Wound Xylem Differentiation. In: Miller, M.W., Kuehnert, C.C. (eds) The Dynamics of Meristem Cell Populations. Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, vol 18. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-3207-7_3

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