Protoxylem and metaxylem vessels form banded and pitted cell walls, respectively. Here, the authors show that KNAT7 suppresses expression of the actin polymerizer, formin 11 (FH11), to determine the cell wall pattern of the metaxylem in Arabidopsis.
- Saku T. Kijima
- Takema Sasaki
- Yoshihisa Oda