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JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY
Volume 61, Issue 14, Pages 3827-3831Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/jxb/erq216
Keywords
Arabinogalactan protein; border cells; border-like cells; cell wall; homogalacturonan; mucilage; plant defence; plant root cap; xylogalacturonan
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- La region de Haute Normandie
- 'Grand Reseau de Recherche-Vegetal, Agronomie et Transformation des Agro-ressources-VATA'
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Roots of many plants are known to produce large numbers of 'border' cells that play a central role in root protection and the interaction of the root with the rhizosphere. Unlike border cells, border-like cells were described only recently in the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana and other Brassicaceae species and very little is known about the functional properties of border-like cells as compared with 'classical' border cells. To stimulate discussion and future research on this topic, the function of border cells and the way border-like cells are organized, maintained, and possibly involved in plant protection is discussed here.
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