Chinese Bulletin of Botany ›› 2001, Vol. 18 ›› Issue (04): 402-410.

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Advances in Studies on Cell Differentiation in Xylem

WANG Ya-Qing CAO Jing CUI Ke-Ming   

  1. (College of Life Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100871)
  • Received:2000-08-22 Revised:2001-02-07 Online:2001-07-20 Published:2001-07-20
  • Contact: CUI Ke-Ming

Abstract: he current progress of studies on xylem differentiation is described in this paper in four aspects: the system used for experiments on xylem differentiation; induction of xylem differentiation; programmed cell death (PCD) in the xylem; the construction of the secondary wall. The difficult problems in focus are pointed out to arouse interests from other scientists.