Strategies for cell shape control in the tip-growing cells
Strategies for cell shape control in the tip-growing cells
O. Campas, E. Rojas, J. Dumais, and L. Mahadevan, American Journal of Botany 99(9):1577–1582, 2012.
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Abstract
Despite the large diversity in biological cell morphology, the processes that specify and control cell shape
are not yet fully understood. Here we study the shape of tip-growing, walled cells, which have evolved a polar mode of cell
morphogenesis leading to characteristic fi lamentous cell morphologies that extend only apically.