Flowers come in a variety of colors, shapes and sizes. Despite this variety, flowers have a
very stereotypical architecture, consisting of a series of sterile organs surrounding the …

Plants produce a rich diversity of biological forms, and the diversity of leaves is especially
notable. Mechanisms of leaf morphogenesis have been studied in the past two decades …

Tissue mechanics have been shown to play a key role in the regulation of morphogenesis in
animals [1–4] and may have an equally important role in plants [5–9]. The aerial organs of …

Flowers are the most complex structures of plants. Studies of Arabidopsis thaliana, which
has typical eudicot flowers, have been fundamental in advancing the structural and …

Reproduction is a crucial process in the life span of flowering plants, and directly affects
human basic requirements in agriculture, such as grain yield and quality. Typical receptor …

Organ size and shape are precisely regulated to ensure proper function. The four sepals in
each Arabidopsis thaliana flower must maintain the same size throughout their growth to …

The shoot apical meristem generates stem, leaves, and lateral shoot meristems during the
entire shoot ontogeny. Vegetative leaves are generated by the meristem in the vegetative …

A genetic continuity of living organisms relies on the germline which is a specialized cell
lineage producing gametes. Essential in the germline functioning is the protection of genetic …

In contrast to animals, plants maintain life-long post-embryonic organogenesis from
specialized tissues termed meristems. Shoot meristems give rise to all aerial tissues and are …

In plants, the shoot apical meristem contains the stem cells and is responsible for the
generation of all aerial organs. Mechanistically, organogenesis is associated with an auxin …