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 …

This is a review article with a point of view. We summarize the long history of the subject and
recent advances and suggest that almost all features of the architecture of shoot apical …

Pattern formation in plant meristems occurs across a broad scale. At the topographical level
(large scale), tissue folding in the meristem is responsible for the initiation of new organs in …

Polygonatum is the largest and most complex genus in tribe Polygonateae, comprising
approximately 57 species widely distributed in the warm temperate, subtropical and boreal …

Most theories of phyllotaxis are based on the idea that the formation of new primordia is
inhibited by the proximity of older primordia. Several mechanisms that could result in such …

In vascular plants there are at least eight ways to develop polymerous whorls, ie, whorls with
four or more leaves. Six ways are presented and compared with literature to estimate organ …

The shoot apical meristem (SAM) functions to generate external architecture and internal
tissue pattern as well as to maintain a self-perpetuating population of stem-cell-like cells …

We demonstrate how phyllotaxis (the arrangement of leaves on plants) and the ribbed,
hexagonal, or parallelogram planforms on plants can be understood as the energy …

Regularity and periodicity in the arrangements of organs in all groups of land plants raise
questions about the mechanisms underlying phyllotactic pattern formation. The initiation of …

Plant organs are repetitively generated at the shoot apical meristem (SAM) in recognizable
patterns. This phenomenon, known as phyllotaxis, has long fascinated scientists from …