Faculty Publications

Vascular Patterning and Leaf Shape

Document Type

Article

Keywords

leaf shape, leaf venation, leaf morphogenesis, vascular pattern formation, procambium, auxin signaling, leaf expansion, diffusion-reaction hypothesis, long-distance signals

Journal/Book/Conference Title

Current Opinion in Plant Biology

Volume

4

Issue

1

First Page

50

Last Page

56

Abstract

Morphogenesis of leaf shape and formation of the major elements of leaf vasculature are temporally coordinated during leaf development. Current analyses of mutant phenotypes provide strong support for the role of auxin signaling in vascular pattern formation and indicate that leaf shape and vasculature are developmentally coupled. Two other mechanisms that may contribute to the regulation of these processes are a diffusion–reaction system and long-distance signaling of informational macromolecules.

Department

Department of Biology

Original Publication Date

2-1-2001

DOI of published version

10.1016/S1369-5266(00)00135-7

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