title: Right Place Right Time: Heterogeneity-Driven Organ Geometry.
abstract: How do plants make species-specific leaves and flowers with stereotypical size and shape? A new study in Developmental Cell finds that local spatiotemporal variability in cell growth rate is essential for robustness in organ geometry control, and reactive oxygen species act to suppress this local heterogeneity during organ maturation.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Molecular Plant Sciences, SynthSys Centre for Systems and Synthetic Biology, and Centre for Science at Extreme Conditions, University of Edinburgh, Max Born Crescent, King's Buildings, Edinburgh EH9 3BF, UK.
authors.forename: Livia Camilla Trevisan
authors.initials: LC
authors.lastname: Scorza
authors.affiliation: Institute of Molecular Plant Sciences, SynthSys Centre for Systems and Synthetic Biology, and Centre for Science at Extreme Conditions, University of Edinburgh, Max Born Crescent, King's Buildings, Edinburgh EH9 3BF, UK. Electronic address: naomi.nakayama@ed.ac.uk.
authors.forename: Naomi
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Nakayama
mesh_terms: D017360:Arabidopsis / Q000254:growth & development* / Q000378:metabolism; D029681:Arabidopsis Proteins / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D008928:Mitochondria / Q000378:metabolism*; D009024:Morphogenesis / Q000502:physiology*; D009928:Organ Specificity; D010641:Phenotype; D017382:Reactive Oxygen Species / Q000378:metabolism*
chemical_list: D029681:Arabidopsis Proteins; D017382:Reactive Oxygen Species