A shoot shouldn't become a flower too early, but needs some control over when the process happens. A paper in JXB finds the genes responsible.
Tag - Shoot apical meristem
Dale Maylea
Phyllotaxis in arabidopsis cuc2 cuc3 double mutants
In the cuc2 cuc3 double mutant of Arabidopsis thaliana the regular spiral Fibonacci phyllotaxis is disrupted and flower pedicels are fused to the inflorescence stem in the mature shoot regions. Burian et al. investigate...
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Behaviour of eversporting eudicot chimeras
Behaviour of eversporting gymnosperm chimeras indicates a single apical cell is present in the shoot apical meristem. Korn studies one Mentha (Lamiaceae), one Euonymus (Celastraceae) and four Spiraea (Rosaceae)...
Shoot apical meristem structure in oil palm
Oil palm (Elaeis guineensis) is an unbranched palm, possessing a single shoot apical meristem (SAM) that may remain active for more than 100 years. Through histological analysis and 3-D reconstructions, Jouannic et al...
