title: Plant developmental biologists meet on stairways in Matera.
abstract: The third EMBO Conference on Plant Molecular Biology, which focused on 'Plant development and environmental interactions', was held in May 2012 in Matera, Italy. Here, we review some of the topics and themes that emerged from the various contributions; namely, steering technologies, transcriptional networks and hormonal regulation, small RNAs, cell and tissue polarity, environmental control and natural variation. We intend to provide the reader who might have missed this remarkable event with a glimpse of the recent progress made in this blossoming research field.
authors.affiliation: Department of Plant Systems Biology, VIB, Technologiepark 927, B-9052 Gent, Belgium. tom.beeckman@psb.vib-ugent.be
authors.forename: Tom
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Beeckman
authors.forename: Jiri
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Friml
mesh_terms: D016764:Cell Polarity; D015509:Developmental Biology; D004777:Environment; D053263:Gene Regulatory Networks; D014644:Genetic Variation; D063245:Plant Development; D010944:Plants / Q000235:genetics*; D058727:RNA, Small Untranslated
chemical_list: D058727:RNA, Small Untranslated