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 …

Background Most, if not all, organisms possess the ability to alter their phenotype in direct
response to changes in their environment, a phenomenon known as phenotypic plasticity …

A number of plant features and traits, such as overall plant architecture, leaf structure and
morphological features, vascular architecture and flowering time are important determinants …

Plant cells constantly alter their gene expression profiles to respond to environmental
fluctuations. These continuous adjustments are regulated by multi-hierarchical networks of …

Plant productivity depends on inflorescences, flower-bearing shoots that originate from the
stem cell populations of shoot meristems. Inflorescence architecture determines flower …

Regulation of gene expression is central to many biological processes. Although
reconstruction of regulatory circuits from genomic data alone is therefore desirable, this …

Transcription factors (TFs) are key cellular components that control gene expression. They
recognize specific DNA sequences, the TF binding sites (TFBSs), and thus are targeted to …

Highlights•Genome-wide and single gene studies have revealed a variety of mechanisms by
which new expression patterns arise.•Studying newly evolved morphologies at the level of …

Highlights•Variability of compound-leaf forms is generated by flexible tuning of partially
common factors.•Prolonged morphogenesis is essential for compound leaf development.• …