The angiosperm flower develops through a modular programme which, although ancient
and conserved, provides the flexibility that has allowed an almost infinite variety of floral …

Mechanical forces acting within the plant body that can mold flower shape throughout
development received little attention. The palette of action of these forces ranges from …

A flowering plant generates many different organs such as leaves, petals, and stamens,
each with a particular function and shape. These types of organ are thought to represent …

Gene regulatory networks (GRN s) control development via cell type‐specific gene
expression and interactions between transcription factors (TF s) and regulatory promoter …

Pollen exine is essential for protection from the environment of the male gametes of seed-
producing plants, but its assembly and composition remain poorly understood. We …

Heteroxylans are abundant components of plant cell walls and provide important raw
materials for the food, pharmaceutical, and biofuel industries. A number of studies in …

Abstract Background and Aims Apocynaceae and Orchidaceae are two angiosperm families
with extreme flower synorganization. They are unrelated, the former in eudicots, the latter in …

The initiation of plant lateral organs from the shoot apical meristem (SAM) is closely
associated with the formation of specialized domains of restricted growth known as the …

Highlights•Mechanical stress caused by differential growth in SAM influences meristem
patterning.•Depletion of brassinosteroids correlates with meristem-to-organ boundary …

In the later part of the 1980s, the time was ripe for identifying genes controlling flower
development. In that pregenomic era, the easiest way to do this was to induce random …