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cell plate

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cell plate (plural cell plates)

The beginning of the formation of a cell wall that also serves as a means of organization of chromosomes during mitosis in many plant cells.

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Cell contents are forced into the progeny cell, and as the final phase of mitosis ends a cell plate, the point at which a new cell wall will grow inwards from, forms. Source: Internet

Seminars in Cell Biology 4, 131–138 pores in the primary cell wall through which the plasmalemma and endoplasmic reticulum Hepler, PK (1982) Endoplasmic reticulum in the formation of the cell plate and plasmodesmata. Source: Internet

In plants, this structure coalesces into a cell plate at the center of the phragmoplast and develops into a cell wall, separating the two nuclei. Source: Internet

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