ReviewFrontiers in plant science2015
Ferns: the missing link in shoot evolution and development.
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- 3D geometry and mechanics of a single apical stem cell ensure helically symmetric plant body in multicellular models.Frontiers in plant science · 2026Article
- Cellular basis of ABA-induced de novo meristem formation and sex-type conversion in Ceratopteris gametophytes.The Plant journal : for cell and molecular biology · 2025Article
- Functions and Regulation of HAM Family Genes in Meristems During Gametophyte and Sporophyte Generations.Plant, cell & environment · 2025Review
- The cellular basis of meristem development in fern gametophytes.Biochemical Society transactions · 2025Review
- Single cell-derived multicellular meristem: insights into male-to-hermaphrodite conversion and de novo meristem formation in Ceratopteris.Development (Cambridge, England) · 2025Article
- The role of fossils for reconstructing the evolution of plant development.Development (Cambridge, England) · 2024Article
- Cytokinin and ALOG proteins regulate pluripotent stem cell identity in the mossScience advances · 2024Article
- Cell Division and Meristem Dynamics in Fern Gametophytes.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- What can hornworts teach us?Frontiers in plant science · 2023Review
- Deep origin and gradual evolution of transporting tissues: Perspectives from across the land plants.Plant physiology · 2022Article
- How was apical growth regulated in the ancestral land plant? Insights from the development of non-seed plants.Plant physiology · 2022Review
- Cell growth dynamics in two types of apical meristems in fern gametophytes.The Plant journal : for cell and molecular biology · 2022Article
- Positional cues and cell division dynamics drive meristem development and archegonium formation in Ceratopteris gametophytes.Communications biology · 2022Article
- The biology ofeLife · 2022Article
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Abstract
Shoot development in land plants is a remarkably complex process that gives rise to an extreme diversity of forms. Our current understanding of shoot developmental mechanisms comes almost entirely from studies of angiosperms (flowering plants), the most recently diverged plant lineage. Shoot development in angiosperms is based around a layered multicellular apical meristem that produces lateral organs and/or secondary meristems from populations of founder cells at its periphery. In contrast, non-seed plant shoots develop from either single apical initials or from a small population of morphologically distinct apical cells. Although developmental and molecular information is becoming available for non-flowering plants, such as the model moss Physcomitrella patens, making valid comparisons between highly divergent lineages is extremely challenging. As sister group to the seed plants, the monilophytes (ferns and relatives) represent an excellent phylogenetic midpoint of comparison for unlocking the evolution of shoot developmental mechanisms, and recent technical advances have finally made transgenic analysis possible in the emerging model fern Ceratopteris richardii. This review compares and contrasts our current understanding of shoot development in different land plant lineages with the aim of highlighting the potential role that the fern C. richardii could play in shedding light on the evolution of underlying genetic regulatory mechanisms.
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