Prof. Taku Demura, Graduate School of Biological Sciences, NAIST
Dr. Misato Ohtani, Dr. Kiminori Toyooka, RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science
Prof. Mitsuyasu Hasebe, National Institute for Basic Biology

Aacquisition of a programmed cell death system was the key to plants coming ashore!
- The moss mechanism that creates cells for carrying water and supporting structure is clarified for the first time -

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http://bsw3.naist.jp/eng/researchtopics/2014/20140324.html

Fig.1 Mutants of ppvns genes.