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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Main Authors: Gorou eHoriguchi, Hirokazu eTsukaya
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2011-07-01
Series:Frontiers in Plant Science
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpls.2011.00024/full