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Published on: June 13, 2018
Stomatal development in time: the past and the future
Xian Qu1, Kylee M Peterson1, Keiko U Torii2
1Department of Biology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195-1800, USA.
Abstract:
Stomata have significantly diversified in nature since their first appearance around 400 million years ago. The diversification suggests the active reprogramming of molecular machineries of stomatal development during evolution. This review focuses on recent progress that sheds light on how this rewiring occurred in different organisms. Three specific aspects are discussed in this review: (i) the evolution of the transcriptional complex that governs stomatal state transitions; (ii) the evolution of receptor-ligand pairs that mediate extrinsic signaling; and (iii) the loss of stomatal development genes in an astomatous angiosperm.
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