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BMC Plant Biology BioMed Central Research article Open Access The extracellular EXO protein mediates cell expansion in Arabidopsis leaves 1 1 2 3 Florian Schröder , Janina Lisso , Peggy Lange and Carsten Müssig* Address: 1Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, Dept. Willmitzer, Am Mühlenberg 1, 14476 Potsdam – Golm, Germany, 2Universität Potsdam, Karl-Liebknecht-Str. 24/25, Haus 26, 14476 Potsdam – Golm, Germany and 3GoFORSYS, Universität Potsdam, c/o Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, Am Mühlenberg 1, 14476 Potsdam – Golm, Germany E-mail: Florian Schröder - schroeder@mpimp-golm.mpg.de; Janina Lisso - lisso@mpimp-golm.mpg.de; Peggy Lange - lange@mpimp-golm.mpg.de; Carsten Müssig* - muessig@mpimp-golm.mpg.de *Corresponding author Published: 13 February 2009 Received: 9 December 2008 BMC Plant Biology 2009, 9:20 doi: 10.1186/1471-2229-9-20 Accepted: 13 February 2009 This article is available from: /1471-2229/9/20 © 2009 Schröder et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background: The EXO (EXORDIUM) gene was identified as a potential mediator of brassinosteroid (BR)-promoted growth. It is part of a gene family with eight members