Size Control in Plants-Lessons from Leaves and Flowers
- To achieve optimal functionality, plant organs like leaves and petals have to grow to a certain size. Beginning with a limited number of undifferentiated cells, the final size of an organ is attained by a complex interplay of cell proliferation and subsequent cell expansion. Regulatory mechanisms that integrate intrinsic growth signals and environmental cues are required to enable optimal leaf and flower development. This review focuses on plant-specific principles of growth reaching from the cellular to the organ level. The currently known genetic pathways underlying these principles are summarized and network connections are highlighted. Putative non-cell autonomously acting mechanisms that might coordinate plant-cell growth are discussed.
| Author details: | Hjördis CzesnickORCiDGND, Michael LenhardORCiDGND |
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| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1101/cshperspect.a019190 |
| ISSN: | 1943-0264 |
| Pubmed ID: | https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26238357 |
| Title of parent work (English): | Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in biology |
| Publisher: | Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press |
| Place of publishing: | Cold Spring Harbor, NY |
| Publication type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Year of first publication: | 2015 |
| Publication year: | 2015 |
| Release date: | 2017/03/27 |
| Volume: | 7 |
| Issue: | 8 |
| Number of pages: | 16 |
| Funding institution: | Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft [Le1412/3-1] |
| Organizational units: | Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Institut für Biochemie und Biologie |
| Peer review: | Referiert |
