Designing leaves. Plant morphogenesis.
Leaf shape and architecture vary greatly throughout the plant kingdom, and even within an individual plant during different phases of growth. Now, the development of a compound leaf architecture in tomato has been shown to be associated with the expression of the knotted1 homeobox gene in leaf primordia.
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Plant Gene Expression Center, USDA/ARS, University of California, Berkeley, 800 Buchanan Street, Albany, California 94710, USA.
D005801:Genes, Homeobox; D018398:Homeodomain Proteins / Q000235:genetics; D009024:Morphogenesis; D063245:Plant Development; D018515:Plant Leaves; D010940:Plant Proteins / Q000235:genetics; D010944:Plants / Q000235:genetics
D018398:Homeodomain Proteins; C095848:Kn1 protein, plant; D010940:Plant Proteins