Root apices as plant command centres: the unique 'brain-like' status of the root apex transition zone

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Molecular and Cellular Botany, University of Bonn, Kirschallee 1, D–53175 Bonn, Germany; Tel.: ++49-228 734761, e-mail: baluska@uni-bonn.de (FB), unb110@uni-bonn.de (DV) Electrophysiology Laboratory, Department of Horticulture, University of Florence, Viale delle Idee 30, I–50019 Florence, Italy; tel.: ++39-0554 574063, e-mail: stefano.mancuso@unifi.it School of Biological Sciences, University of Bristol, Woodland Road, Bristol BS8 1UG, UK; tel.: ++44-117 9287475, e-mail: P.W.Barlow@bristol.ac.uk