Roychoudhry, S and Kepinski, S (2015) Shoot and root branch growth angle control - the wonderfulness of lateralness. Current Opinion in Plant Biology, 23. 124 - 131. ISSN 1369-5266
Abstract
The overall shape of plants, the space they occupy above and below ground, is determined principally by the number, length, and angle of their lateral branches. The function of these shoot and root branches is to hold leaves and other organs to the sun, and below ground, to provide anchorage and facilitate the uptake of water and nutrients. While in some respects lateral roots and shoots can be considered mere iterations of the primary root-shoot axis, in others there are fundamental differences in their biology, perhaps most conspicuously in the regulation their angle of growth. Here we discuss recent advances in the understanding of the control of branch growth angle, one of the most important but least understood components of the wonderful diversity of plant form observed throughout nature.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | (c) 2014, Elsevier. This is an author produced version of a paper published in Current Opinion in Plant Biology. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Biological Sciences (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 01 Oct 2015 14:19 |
Last Modified: | 13 Mar 2016 15:08 |
Published Version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pbi.2014.12.004 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Elsevier |
Identification Number: | 10.1016/j.pbi.2014.12.004 |
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