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 development of plant leaves follows a common basic program that is flexible and is
adjusted according to species, developmental stage and environmental circumstances …

The regular arrangement of leaves around a plant's stem, called phyllotaxis, has for
centuries attracted the attention of philosophers, mathematicians and natural scientists; …

Background: Plants produce leaf and flower primordia from a specialized tissue called the
shoot apical meristem (SAM). Genetic studies have identified a large number of genes that …

The plant hormone auxin is thought to provide positional information for patterning during
development. It is still unclear, however, precisely how auxin is distributed across tissues …

A classical role of the hormone auxin is in the formation of flowers at the periphery of the
reproductive shoot apex. Mutants in regulators of polar auxin transport or in the auxin …

Abstract CUP-SHAPED COTYLEDON1 (CUC1), CUC2, and CUC3 define the boundary
domain around organs in the Arabidopsis thaliana meristem. CUC1 and CUC2 transcripts …

The phytohormone auxin is a key factor in plant growth and development. Forward and
reverse genetic strategies have identified important molecular components in auxin …

Reprogramming of cell identities during development frequently requires changes in the
chromatin state that need to be restricted to the correct cell populations. Here we identify an …

Auxin transport affects a variety of important growth and developmental processes in plants,
including the regulation of shoot and root branching. The asymmetrical localization of auxin …