Both chloronemal and caulonemal cells expand by tip growth in the moss Physcomitrella patens.
Tip growth is a mode of cell expansion in which all growth is restricted to a small area that forms a tip in an elongating cell. In green plants, tip growth has been shown to occur in root hairs, pollen tubes, rhizoids, and caulonema. Each of these cell types has a longitudinally elongated shape, lo...
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| Format: | Journal article |
| Language: | English |
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2007
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