phragmoplast

id: GO:0009524
name: phragmoplast
namespace: cellular_component
type: go
obsolete: False

Description: Fibrous structure (light microscope view) that arises between the daughter nuclei at telophase and within which the initial partition (cell plate), dividing the mother cell in two (cytokinesis), is formed. Appears at first as a spindle connected to the two nuclei, but later spreads laterally in the form of a ring. Consists of microtubules.

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