Annals of Botany 89: 129-131, 2002
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Book Reviews
The plant cell cycle and its interfaces.
Francis D. (ed.) 2001.Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press.
£69 (hardback). 220 pp.
What are the ‘interfaces’ of the cell cycle mentioned in the title of this book? One interface is with the stimuli received from the immediate environment of the nucleus, where many cell cycle-related events are executed, and from neighbouring cells and super-symplasmic conducting channels. Another interface is with the outputs of the cycle—that is, those developmental events which require new cells for their successful accomplishment. However, in addition to the biotic inputs from the living plant system itself, cycling cells certainly also have inputs from the external abiotic environment. With the exception of the chapter by M. Sauter (‘Gibberellic acid-mediated regulation of the cell cycle during stem growth’), which basically comes down to a discussion of how submergence of deep-water rice plants, with the consequential change in internal gas atmosphere, leads to cell division, abiotic factors are not discussed.
Concerning the output of new cells to meristems and their associated
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