Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305-5020, USA.
Development. 2012 Oct;139(20):3683-92. doi: 10.1242/dev.080523.
The plant stomatal lineage manifests features common to many developmental contexts: precursor cells are chosen from an initially equivalent field of cells, undergo asymmetric and self-renewing divisions, communicate among themselves and respond to information from a distance. As we review here, the experimental accessibility of these epidermal lineages, particularly in Arabidopsis, has made stomata a conceptual and technical framework for the study of cell fate, stem cells, and cell polarity in plants.
前体细胞从最初等同的细胞场中选择，经历不对称和自我更新的分裂，在自身之间进行通信，并对来自远处的信息做出响应。正如我们在这里回顾的那样，这些表皮谱系的实验可及性，特别是在拟南芥中，使气孔成为研究植物细胞命运、干细胞和细胞极性的概念和技术框架。
