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Developmental complexities of simple leaves
13609 Plant Sciences, Botany Department, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA. mjscanlo@dogwood.botany.uga.edu
Current Opinion in Plant Biology
|February 19, 2000
Abstract:
Recent papers have explored early events in the development of simple leaves. Functional compartmentalization of the shoot apical meristem correlates with distinct fields of cells connected by plasmodesmata. Molecules important in the initiation of phyllotactic pattern are described and the relationship between dorsoventral patterning and lateral leaf expansion is investigated.