Organ size regulation in plants: insights from compensation
The regulation of organ size in higher organisms is a fundamental issue in developmental biology. In flowering plants, a phenomenon called compensation has been observed where a cell proliferation defect in developing leaf primordia triggers excessive cell expansion. As a result, final leaf size is...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Frontiers Media S.A.
2011-07-01
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Series: | Frontiers in Plant Science |
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Online Access: | http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpls.2011.00024/full |