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. 2023 Apr 20;35(5):1302-1303.
doi: 10.1093/plcell/koad039.

Against the grain: Certain microtubules arrange perpendicularly to the division site to guide cell division in maize

Michael Busche  1   2
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Against the grain: Certain microtubules arrange perpendicularly to the division site to guide cell division in maize

Michael Busche. Plant Cell. .
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Figure 1.
Figure 1.
Cortical-telophase microtubules aid in guiding the phragmoplast in maize. Bellinger et al. (2023) describe a unique population of cortical microtubules that appears during telophase in maize epidermal cells. These extend from the cortex toward the division plane (dashed box) where they often pause and reorient to be perpendicular to the plane. As the phragmoplast expands toward the division site, the cortical-telophase microtubules are often incorporated into the phragmoplast's microtubules arrays where they aid in guiding the direction of phragmoplast expansion toward the division site. Figure created by M. Busche with Adobe Illustrator.
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