Plants exhibit remarkable lineage plasticity, allowing them to regenerate organs that differ
from their respective origins. Such developmental plasticity is dependent on the activity of …

The maintenance of the stem cell niche in the shoot apical meristem, the structure that
generates all of the aerial organs of the plant, relies on a canonical feedback loop between …

Major advances in crop yields are needed in the coming decades. However, plant breeding
is currently limited by incremental improvements in quantitative traits that often rely on …

Transcriptional mechanisms that underlie the dose-dependent regulation of gene
expression in animal development have been studied extensively. However, the …

A major challenge in developmental biology is unraveling the precise regulation of plant
stem cell maintenance and the transition to a fully differentiated cell. In this review, we …

Plants, unlike animals, possess a unique developmental plasticity, that allows them to adapt
to changing environmental conditions. A fundamental aspect of this plasticity is their ability to …

The shoot meristem of land plants maintains the capacity for organ generation throughout its
lifespan due to a group of undifferentiated stem cells. Most meristems are shaped like a …

Fruit malformation is a major constrain in fruit production worldwide resulting in substantial
economic losses. The farmers for decades noticed that the chilling temperature before …

Floral organs are properly developed on the basis of timed floral meristem (FM) termination
in Arabidopsis. In this process, two known regulatory pathways are involved. The WUSCHEL …

Gene expression specificity of homeobox transcription factors has remained paradoxical.
WUSCHEL activates and represses CLAVATA3 transcription at lower and higher …