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 …

Size control of multicellular organisms poses a longstanding biological question that has
always fascinated scientists. Currently the question is far from being resolved because of the …

The size of plant lateral organs is determined by well-coordinated cell proliferation and cell
expansion. Here, we report that miR159, an evolutionarily conserved microRNA, plays an …

The growing world population and global increases in the standard of living both result in an
increasing demand for food, feed and other plant‐derived products. In the coming years …

Plant lateral organs are often elaborated through repetitive formation of developmental units,
which progress robustly in predetermined patterns along their axes. Leaflets in compound …

Early leaf growth is sustained by cell proliferation and subsequent cell expansion that
initiates at the leaf tip and proceeds in a basipetal direction. Using detailed kinematic and …

The development of plant leaves follows a common basic program that is flexible and is
adjusted according to species, developmental stage and environmental circumstances …

Angiosperm leaves manifest a remarkable diversity of shapes that range from
developmental sequences within a shoot and within crown response to microenvironment to …

Auxin, a plant hormone, regulates virtually every aspect of plant growth and development.
Many current studies on auxin focus on the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana, or on field …

In this work, we investigate morphological differences between Arabidopsis thaliana, which
has simple leaves, and its relative Cardamine hirsuta, which has dissected leaves …