The cells marked in red are the shoot stem cells; the cells in blue express the WUS gene and are required to maintain the stem cells; descendants of the stem cells are displaced to the periphery ...

it was possible to show that small groups of stem cells function as a long-term source of new cells to build up the shoot and the root. However, the experiments described above also revealed that ...

Plants have stem cells too. They're found at the meristems, the growing tips of the roots and the shoots. The big difference is that the stem cells in adult plants can still make every type of ...