Doerner P
Plant Biology Lab, The Salk Institute, 10010 N. Torrey Pines, La Jolla, California 92037, USA.
Curr Biol. 1998 Jan 15;8(2):R42-4. doi: 10.1016/s0960-9822(98)70030-2.
Many functions have been attributed to the quiescent center of a root apical meristem, from stem cell reservoir to pattern-generating center. Limited laser ablation of the quiescent center in Arabidopsis has now revealed that it acts to suppress differentiation and to maintain the surrounding initial cells as stem cells.