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The development and geometry of shape change in Arabidopsis thaliana cotyledon pavement cells.

Chunhua Zhang, Leah E Halsey, and Daniel B Szymanski

BMC Plant Biol (2011) PMID 21284861 PMCID PMC3042916

The leaf epidermis is an important architectural control element that influences the growth properties of underlying tissues and the overall form of the organ. In dicots, interdigitated pavement cells are the building blocks of the tissue, and their morphogenesis includes the assembly of specialized cell walls that surround the apical, basal, and lateral (anticlinal) cell surfaces. The microtubule and actin cytoskeletons are highly polarized along the cortex of the anticlinal wall; however, the relationships between these arrays and cell morphogenesis are unclear.

DOI: 10.1186/1471-2229-11-27
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