Plant grafting: making the right connections
- PMID: 25989079
- DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2015.03.055
Plant grafting: making the right connections
Abstract
The cultivation of many crops relies on the formation of chimeric plants, where roots from one variety are grafted onto the shoot of another. A new study uncovers how two plants connect and demonstrates that the root and shoot do not contribute equally to the union.
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A Developmental Framework for Graft Formation and Vascular Reconnection in Arabidopsis thaliana.Curr Biol. 2015 May 18;25(10):1306-18. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2015.03.032. Epub 2015 Apr 16. Curr Biol. 2015. PMID: 25891401 Free PMC article.
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