8 Development of the Shoot Apical Meristem
Annual Plant Reviews book series, Volume 12: Polarity in Plants
Rüdiger Simon,
Rüdiger Simon
Institut für Entwicklungsbiologie, Universität zu Köln, Gyrhofstrasse 17, Köln, D-50931 Germany
Search for more papers by this authorRüdiger Simon,
Rüdiger Simon
Institut für Entwicklungsbiologie, Universität zu Köln, Gyrhofstrasse 17, Köln, D-50931 Germany
Search for more papers by this authorFirst published: 19 April 2018
This article was originally published in 2004 in Polarity in Plants, Volume 12 (ISBN 9781405114325) of the Annual Plant Reviews book series, this volume edited by Keith Lindsey. The article was republished in Annual Plant Reviews online in April 2018.
Abstract
The sections in this article are
- Architecture of the Shoot Meristem: Layers and Zones
- The Making of a Meristem
- Regulation of KNOX Gene Expression
- Communications Arising – between Periphery and Centre
- Communications Along the Apical-Basal Axis
- Establishment and Maintenance of Stem Cells
- Robustness and Flexibility of Stem Cell Regulation
- Specificity of the CLV/WUS Regulator
- Determinate or Indeterminate: Shutting off Stem Cells in Flower Development
- Integration of Meristem Activity: New Genes and Mutants
- Polarity in the Shoot Meristem: Stability in Changing
- Acknowledgement
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