Nuclear pores regulate neuronal development

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The new research reveals a role for structural nucleoporins in coordinating cell differentiation events in the developing embryo.

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An Ancient Mechanism Controls the Development of Cells with a Rooting Function in Land Plants

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"Root hairs and rhizoids are cells with rooting functions in land plants. We describe two basic helix-loop-helix transcription factors that control root hair development in the sporophyte (2n) of the angiosperm Arabidopsis thaliana and rhizoid development in the gametophytes (n) of the bryophyte Physcomitrella patens. The phylogeny of land plants supports the hypothesis that early land plants were bryophyte-like and possessed a dominant gametophyte and later the sporophyte rose to dominance

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