Output details

An intracellular partitioning-based framework for tissue cell polarity in plants and animals

<28>Addressing polarisation fields in greater detail, we assembled a team including a specialist in animal polarity (Strutt, Sheffield) and adapted software from collaborators (VVE, Prusinkiewicz lab) and showed how single cells can polarise autonomously and then interact with each other to form tissue-wide fields under the influence of the patterns of genetically controlled organisers (see Outputs 1 and 2). The results are consistent observations on leaf growth and (paper in draft) Drosophila wings. The latter upsets current thinking and provides some evidence that the ‘growing polarised tissue framework’ (Output 1) applies to both plants and animals.