ArticleCell proliferation2002
Estimation of directional division frequencies in vascular cambium and in marginal meristematic cells of plants.
Article in Cell proliferation, 2002. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
7 citing papers in PubMed, 22 citations in OpenAlex.
- An updated history of TDIF-PXY signalling: a study in cell fate and tissue patterning.The New phytologist · 2025Review
- How Do Trees Grow in Girth? Controversy on the Role of Cellular Events in the Vascular Cambium.Acta biotheoretica · 2021Article
- Three-dimensional growth: a developmental innovation that facilitated plant terrestrialization.Journal of plant research · 2020Review
- Sector analysis reveals patterns of cambium differentiation in poplar stems.Journal of experimental botany · 2018Article
- Coordination of plant cell division and expansion in a simple morphogenetic system.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2010Article
- The anatomy of the chi-chi of Ginkgo biloba suggests a mode of elongation growth that is an alternative to growth driven by an apical meristem.Journal of plant research · 2007Article
- The natural history of consciousness, and the question of whether plants are conscious, in relation to the Hameroff-Penrose quantum-physical 'Orch OR' theory of universal consciousness.Communicative & integrative biologyArticle
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Using simple arithmetical formulae, it is shown that, when the meristematic initial cells of a growing plant organ are arranged in a ring, the cellular dimensions predict the relative frequencies of anticlinal and periclinal divisions which these cells undergo. The pattern of cell file branching which appears during the course of development, and which is predicted by this mathematical model, is validated using data pertaining to the numbers and dimensions of initial cells within the secondary vascular cambium of hybrid aspen trees. Data pertaining to a second, simpler set of initial cells which comprises the outer cellular ring of the thallus of the alga Coleochaete orbicularis, and from which all the radial cell files of the circular disc-like thallus are descended, have also been used for model validation. Combining the mathematical approach to division frequencies with data of actual cell sizes permits inferences about the course of the increase of the number of cell files (generated by the anticlinal divisions) and the number of cells within each file (generated by the periclinal divisions) during the earlier stages of secondary tissue or thallus development, and also about how they will develop at future stages. The question whether or not cell division patterns conform to the geometry of the system in which the cells are embedded is also discussed.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.