Flexure wood formation via growth reprogramming in hybrid aspen involves jasmonates and polyamines and transcriptional changes resembling tension wood …

J Urbancsok, EN Donev, P Sivan, E van Zalen… - New …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Stem bending in trees induces flexure wood but its properties and development are poorly
understood. Here, we investigated the effects of low‐intensity multidirectional stem flexing …

Leaf Removal Rapidly Promotes Sorghum Tiller Bud Growth and Alters Bud Hormones and Transcriptome

S Park, Q Li, AH Muliana, SA Finlayson - Journal of Plant Growth …, 2024 - Springer
Tiller buds of grasses like sorghum form in close contact with the overlying leaf. A prior study
showed that tiller bud growth was repressed by mechanical signals generated by contact …

Competition for resources during development drives allometric patterns in the grass Setaria

R Dale, D Banan, B Millman, A Leakey, S Mukherji… - bioRxiv, 2023 - biorxiv.org
Grasses grow a series of phytomers during development. The distance between successive
leaves is determined by internode lengths. Grasses exhibit genetic, developmental, and …