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P. L. Herman, M. D. Marks, Trichome Development in Arabidopsis thaliana. II. Isolation and Complementation of the GLABROUS1 Gene., The Plant Cell, Volume 1, Issue 11, November 1989, Pages 1051–1055, https://doi.org/10.1105/tpc.1.11.1051
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Abstract
We are using the formation of trichomes in Arabidopsis thaliana as a model system to study gene expression during cellular differentiation. To initiate the molecular characterization of this system, we tagged and isolated a gene that is specifically required for the development of the specialized trichome cell. We confirmed the identity of this gene, GLABROUS1 (GL1), by complementation. These results demonstrate that a crucial gene in a plant developmental pathway can be successfully identified by complementation.