Plants maintain the ability to form lateral appendages throughout their life cycle and form
leaves as the principal lateral appendages of the stem. Leaves initiate at the peripheral zone …

The WOX genes form a plant-specific subclade of the eukaryotic homeobox transcription
factor superfamily, which is characterized by the presence of a conserved DNA-binding …

Cell–cell communication is essential for multicellular development and, consequently,
evolution has brought about an array of distinct mechanisms serving this purpose …

The indeterminate nature of plant growth and development depends on the stem cell system
found in meristems. The Arabidopsis thaliana vascular meristem includes procambium and …

A key challenge in biology is to understand how the regional control of cell growth gives rise
to final organ forms. Plant leaves must coordinate growth along both the proximodistal and …

During leaf development in flowering plants, adaxial (upper) and abaxial (lower) side–
specific genes are responsible for blade outgrowth, which takes places predominantly in the …

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 flattening of leaves to form broad blades is an important adaptation that maximizes
photosynthesis. However, the molecular mechanism underlying this process remains …

In order to understand the molecular genetic mechanisms of rice (O ryza sativa) organ
development, we studied the narrow leaf2 narrow leaf3 (nal2 nal3; hereafter nal2/3) double …

Plant shoot organs arise from initial cells that are recruited from meristematic tissues.
Previous studies have shown that members of the WUSCHEL-related HOMEOBOX (WOX) …