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A Wox3-patterning module organizes planar growth in grass leaves and ligules.
Nature plants - 1 May 2023
Satterlee James W, Evans Lukas J, Conlon Brianne R, Conklin Phillip, Martinez-Gomez Jesus, Yen Jeffery R, Wu Hao, Sylvester Anne W, Specht Chelsea D, Cheng Jie, Johnston Robyn, Coen Enrico, Scanlon Michael J
Abstract excerpt
Grass leaves develop from a ring of primordial initial cells within the periphery of the shoot apical meristem, a pool of organogenic stem cells that generates all of the organs of the plant shoot. At maturity, the grass leaf is a flattened, strap-like organ comprising a proximal supportive sheath surrounding the stem and a distal photosynthetic blade. The sheath and blade are partitioned by a hinge-like auricle...
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