...Wei Xuan; Hugues De Gernier; Tom Beeckman ABSTRACT Plants explore the soil by continuously expanding their root system, a process that depends on the production of lateral roots (LRs). Sites where LRs can be produced are specified in the primary root axis through a pre-patterning mechanism...

...Jaimie M. Van Norman; Wei Xuan; Tom Beeckman; Philip N. Benfey The establishment of a pre-pattern or competence to form new organs is a key feature of the postembryonic plasticity of plant development, and the elaboration of such pre-patterns leads to remarkable heterogeneity in plant form. In root...

... Karsruhe, Germany 21 1 2004 © 2004. 2004 Her5 Hairy Midbrain-hindbrain boundary Zebrafish Neurogenesis Pre-patterning Neuronal differentiation in the vertebrate central nervous system (CNS) is under strict temporal and spatial control. First, populations of `pioneer...