Post #2488136
2026-05-05 18:43 UTC
Yes plant cells are all firmly attached to one another, so having cells migrate around the body and spread everywhere is a lot more difficult than in animals.
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@TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 2026-05-05 19:13
Surprisingly, that isn't all the article talks about. For example: "it is interesting to note that plant stem cells and their immediate progeny are hypersensitive to DNA damage and undergo programmed cell death that, as proposed in animals, might be used as a mechanism to prevent accumulation of mutations in stem cell populations." It cites [this open-access article from *PNAS*](https://www.pnas.org/doi/pdf/10.1073/pnas.0909218106). It notes, as you said, that metastasis is functionally impossible.