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Regulation of compound leaf development by PHANTASTICA in Medicago truncatula.
Plant physiology - 1 Jan 2014
Ge Liangfa, Peng Jianling, Berbel Ana, Madueño Francisco, Chen Rujin
Abstract excerpt
Plant leaves, simple or compound, initiate as peg-like structures from the peripheral zone of the shoot apical meristem, which requires class I KNOTTED-LIKE HOMEOBOXI (KNOXI) transcription factors to maintain its activity. The MYB domain protein encoded by the ASYMMETRIC LEAVES1/ROUGH SHEATH2/PHANTASTICA (ARP) gene, together with other factors, excludes KNOXI gene expression from incipient leaf primordia to...
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