ReviewThe Plant cell2021
The leaf meristem enigma: The relationship between the plate meristem and the marginal meristem.
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- Diversity of tomato leaf form provides novel insights into breeding.Breeding science · 2023Article
- Cell Division and Meristem Dynamics in Fern Gametophytes.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Genome-wide identification, phylogeny, and expression analysis of GRF transcription factors in pineapple (Frontiers in plant science · 2023Article
- Position of meristems and the angles of the cell division plane regulate the uniqueness of lateral organ shape.Development (Cambridge, England) · 2022Article
- Molecular mechanisms underlying leaf development, morphological diversification, and beyond.The Plant cell · 2022Review
- Cell growth dynamics in two types of apical meristems in fern gametophytes.The Plant journal : for cell and molecular biology · 2022Article
- A genetic framework for proximal secondary vein branching in the Arabidopsis thaliana embryo.Development (Cambridge, England) · 2022Article
- Quantitative live-imaging reveals the dynamics of apical cells during gametophyte development in ferns.Quantitative plant biology · 2022Article
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Abstract
Leaf organogenesis is governed by the spatiotemporal activity of the leaf meristem, which has far greater mitotic activity than the shoot apical meristem. The two types of leaf meristems, the plate meristem and the marginal meristem, are distinguished by the location and longevity of their cell proliferative activity. Most leaf lamina outgrowth depends on the plate meristem. The presence of the marginal meristem was a matter of debate in classic anatomy, but recent genetic analyses of leaf growth in Arabidopsis thaliana confirmed its short-lived activity. Several genes key for the regulation of the two meristem types have been identified, and at least superficially, the systems appear to function independently, as they are regulated by different transcription factors and microRNAs. However, many of the details of these regulatory systems, including how the expression of these key factors is spatially regulated, remain unclear. One major unsolved question is the relationship between the plate meristem and the marginal meristem. Here, I present an overview of our current understanding of this topic and discuss questions that remain to be answered.
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