Researchers in Brazil found a special part of tomato genome that controls the size of not just the fruit but also the leaves and stems. This discovery could help making tomato crops more resilient to different...
Tag - cell division
Renata Cantoro
Successive leaflets within the same tomato compound leaf are “cellularly” the same
The question of which cellular mechanisms determine the variation in leaf size has been previously addressed in plants with simple leaves. Dissecting compound tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) leaves in leaflet areas and in...
Alex Assiry
Evolution of nectar spur length in a clade of Linaria
Nectar spurs are tubular outgrowths of a floral organ that contain or give the appearance of containing nectar. They are hypothesized to be a ‘key innovation’ leading to rapid speciation within a lineage because they...
Petal spur development in Centranthus
When concealed by petal spurs, nectar typically is restricted to flower-visiting animals possessing a sufficient tongue length to acquire it, and thus such spurs have evolutionary significance, often leading to...
botanyone
Cell division and elongation in submerged rice coleoptiles
Cell division and elongation in submerged rice coleoptiles Rice coleoptiles rapidly elongate when seeds germinate under submergence, but not in the alcohol dehydrogenase 1 (ADH1)-deficient mutant, reduced adh activity...
ERECTA gene and leaf cellular development
<i>ERECTA</i> gene and leaf cellular development The ERECTA gene plays a role in the balance between epidermal cell expansion and division in leaves. Tisné et al. perform spatial and temporal analyses of...
