title: Developmental complexities of simple leaves.
abstract: Recent papers have explored early events in the development of simple leaves. Functional compartmentalization of the shoot apical meristem correlates with distinct fields of cells connected by plasmodesmata. Molecules important in the initiation of phyllotactic pattern are described and the relationship between dorsoventral patterning and lateral leaf expansion is investigated.
authors.affiliation: 3609 Plant Sciences, Botany Department, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA. mjscanlo@dogwood.botany.uga.edu
authors.forename: M J
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Scanlon
mesh_terms: D019521:Body Patterning; D019070:Cell Lineage; D019684:Magnoliopsida / Q000254:growth & development*; D018519:Meristem; D009024:Morphogenesis; D018515:Plant Leaves / Q000254:growth & development*