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ReviewJournal of experimental botany2021

Cell identity specification in plants: lessons from flower development.

Xiaocai Xu, Cezary Smaczniak, Jose M Muino, Kerstin Kaufmann

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Review in Journal of experimental botany, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

15 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. "Bud to bloom"-hormonal coordination in floral initiation.Plant biology (Stuttgart, Germany) · 2025
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  8. Flower Development in Arabidopsis.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2023
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  13. Cell types as species: Exploring a metaphor.Frontiers in plant science · 2022
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  15. Petal Cellular Identities.Frontiers in plant science · 2021
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Xiaocai XuPlant Cell and Molecular Biology, Institute of Biology, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
Cezary SmaczniakPlant Cell and Molecular Biology, Institute of Biology, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
Jose M MuinoSystems Biology of Gene Regulation, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Institute of Biology, Berlin, Germany.
Kerstin KaufmannPlant Cell and Molecular Biology, Institute of Biology, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany.ORCID 0000-0001-7960-6256

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Multicellular organisms display a fascinating complexity of cellular identities and patterns of diversification. The concept of 'cell type' aims to describe and categorize this complexity. In this review, we discuss the traditional concept of cell types and highlight the impact of single-cell technologies and spatial omics on the understanding of cellular differentiation in plants. We summarize and compare position-based and lineage-based mechanisms of cell identity specification using flower development as a model system. More than understanding ontogenetic origins of differentiated cells, an important question in plant science is to understand their position- and developmental stage-specific heterogeneity. Combinatorial action and crosstalk of external and internal signals is the key to cellular heterogeneity, often converging on transcription factors that orchestrate gene expression programs.

Indexed as

Gene Expression Regulation, PlantPlantsCell DifferentiationFlowersGene Expression Regulation, DevelopmentalTranscription FactorsTranscription FactorsCell lineagecellular differentiationflower developmentphytohormoneplant cell typepositional regulationtranscription factor

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PMID33865238
PMCPMC8163053

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