ERC Advanced Grant · 2017
De novo Development of Polarity in Plant Cells
The polarity of the single cell from which many organisms develop determines the polarity of the body axis. However, the polarity of these single cells is often inherited. For example, zygote polarity is inherited from the polarized egg cell of Arabidopsis thaliana. By contrast, polarity is not pre-set in the spore cell that forms the Marchantia polymorpha (Marchantia) plant. An environmental cue – directional light – polarises the spore cell which, in turn, directs the formation of the first (apical-basal) axis and the fates of the two daughter cells formed when the spore cell divides. Using Marchantia, we will discover how cell polarity is established de novo in the developing spore cell…
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