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ReviewThe New phytologist2025

The asymmetry engine: how plants harness asymmetries to shape their bodies.

Kristoffer Jonsson, Anne-Lise Routier-Kierzkowska, Rishikesh P Bhalerao

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Review in The New phytologist, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Kristoffer JonssonDepartment of Biological Sciences, IRBV, University of Montreal, 4101 Sherbrooke Est, Montreal, QC, H1X 2B2, Canada.ORCID 0000-0001-7445-7378
Anne-Lise Routier-KierzkowskaDepartment of Biological Sciences, IRBV, University of Montreal, 4101 Sherbrooke Est, Montreal, QC, H1X 2B2, Canada.ORCID 0000-0003-0383-0811
Rishikesh P BhaleraoDepartment of Forest Genetics and Plant Physiology, Umeå Plant Science Centre (UPSC), Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, 901 83, Umeå, Sweden.ORCID 0000-0003-4384-7036

Funding

Fonds de recherche du Québec - Nature et technologies 2021-NC-284190KempestiftelsernaKnut och Alice Wallenbergs Stiftelse 2023.0209Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada RGPIN-2018-05762Vetenskapsrådet 2016-00504Vetenskapsrådet 2020-06442
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Plant development depends on growth asymmetry to establish body plans and adapt to environmental stimuli. We explore how plants initiate, propagate, and regulate organ-wide growth asymmetries. External cues, such as light and gravity, and internal signals, including stochastic cellular growth variability, drive these asymmetries. The plant hormone auxin orchestrates growth asymmetry through its distribution and transport. Mechanochemical feedback loops, exemplified by apical hook formation, further amplify growth asymmetries, illustrating the dynamic interplay between biochemical signals and physical forces. Growth asymmetry itself can serve as a continuous cue, influencing subsequent growth decisions. By examining specific cellular programs and their responses to asymmetric cues, we propose that the decision to either amplify or dampen these asymmetries is key to shaping plant organs.

Indexed as

Plant DevelopmentPlantsIndoleacetic AcidsModels, BiologicalPlant Growth RegulatorsSignal TransductionIndoleacetic AcidsPlant Growth Regulatorsauxincell walldevelopmentfeedback mechanismsgrowth coordinationmechanicsmorphogenesistropism

Identifiers

PMID39871733
PMCPMC11840410

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