title: Stomatal development in time: the past and the future.
abstract: Stomata have significantly diversified in nature since their first appearance around 400 million years ago. The diversification suggests the active reprogramming of molecular machineries of stomatal development during evolution. This review focuses on recent progress that sheds light on how this rewiring occurred in different organisms. Three specific aspects are discussed in this review: (i) the evolution of the transcriptional complex that governs stomatal state transitions; (ii) the evolution of receptor-ligand pairs that mediate extrinsic signaling; and (iii) the loss of stomatal development genes in an astomatous angiosperm.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195-1800, USA.
authors.forename: Xian
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Qu
authors.affiliation: Department of Biology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195-1800, USA.
authors.forename: Kylee M
authors.initials: KM
authors.lastname: Peterson
authors.affiliation: Department of Biology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195-1800, USA; Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195-1800, USA; Institute of Transformative Biomolecules, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Aichi 464-8601, Japan. Electronic address: ktorii@u.washington.edu.
authors.forename: Keiko U
authors.initials: KU
authors.lastname: Torii
mesh_terms: D051792:Basic Helix-Loop-Helix Proteins / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D005075:Biological Evolution; D044002:Bryophyta / Q000166:cytology / Q000235:genetics / Q000254:growth & development; D018506:Gene Expression Regulation, Plant; D019684:Magnoliopsida / Q000235:genetics* / Q000254:growth & development; D010940:Plant Proteins / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D054046:Plant Stomata / Q000166:cytology / Q000235:genetics* / Q000254:growth & development*
chemical_list: D051792:Basic Helix-Loop-Helix Proteins; D010940:Plant Proteins