Dividing plant cells assemble a new intracellular compartment, the cell plate, which grows centrifugally by vesicle fusion to partition the cytoplasm. Genetic studies in Arabidopsis are revealing the molecular signals that specify this special membrane transport pathway.
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UCLouvainSST/ISV - Institut des sciences de la vie
Batoko, H., & Moore, I. (2001). Plant cytokinesis : KNOLLE joins the club. Current biology : CB, 11(11), R423-6. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0960-9822(01)00251-2 (Original work published 2001)