An afternoon stroll through an English garden reveals the breathtaking beauty and
enormous diversity of flowering plants. The extreme variation of flower morphologies …

The shoot apical meristem of angiosperm plants generates leaf, stem and floral structures
throughout the plant's lifetime. To do this, the plant must maintain a population of stem cells …

Increasing production efficiency is a top priority in agriculture. Optimal plant architecture is
the biological basis of dense planting, high crop yield and labour cost savings, and is thus …

In seed plants, leaves are born on radial shoots, but unlike shoots, they are determinate
dorsiventral organs made of flat lamina. YABBY genes are found only in seed plants and in …

The leaves of seed plants evolved from a primitive shoot system and are generated as
determinate dorsiventral appendages at the flanks of radial indeterminate shoots. The …

Leaf architecture directly influences canopy structure, consequentially affecting yield. We
discovered a maize (Zea mays) mutant with aberrant leaf architecture, which we named …

Introgression lines (ILs), in which genetic material from wild tomato species is introgressed
into a domesticated background, have been used extensively in tomato (Solanum …

The origin of land plants from aquatic ancestors and their subsequent evolutionary radiation
was due to major modifications in an ancestral developmental program allowing for plants of …

The flattening of leaves results from the interaction between upper (adaxial) and lower
(abaxial) domains in the developing primordium. These domains are specified by …

Embryo patterning in Arabidopsis thaliana is highly affected when KANADI or Class III HD-
Zip genes are compromised. Triple loss-of-function kan1 kan2 kan4 embryos exhibit striking …