The Recipe for Especially Efficient Stomata (5 of 6) (IMAGE)

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The Recipe for Especially Efficient Stomata (5 of 6)

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Confocal image of an open wild-type stomatal complex (on the left) consisting of two guard cells flanked by subsidiary cells and an open mutant stomatal complex (on the right) lacking the lateral subsidiary cells. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the March 17, 2017, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by M.T. Raissig at Stanford University in Stanford, Calif., and colleagues was titled, "Mobile MUTE specifies subsidiary cells to build physiologically improved grass stomata."

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Michael Raissig and Dominique Bergmann

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