Plant Development and Evolution [Hardcover]

Plant Development and Evolution, the latest release in the Current Topics in Developmental Biology series, highlights new advances in the field, with this new volume presenting interesting chapters on the Evolution of the plant body plan, Lateral root development and its role in evolutionary adaptation, the Development of the vascular system, the Development of the shoot apical meristem and phyllotaxis, the Evolution of leaf diversity, the Evolution of regulatory networks in land plants, The role of programed cell death in plant development, the Development and evolution of inflorescence architecture, the Molecular regulation of flower development, the Pre-meiotic another development, and much more.

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• Presents the latest release in the Current Topics in Developmental Biology series
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1. Evolution of the plant body plan P?ter Sz?v?nyi, Manuel Waller and Alexander Kirbis 2. Evolution and co-option of developmental regulatory networks in early land plants John L. Bowman, Liam N. Briginshaw and Stevie N. Florent 3. The role of plant root systems in evolutionary adaptation Vinay Shekhar, Dorothee St?ckle, Martha Thellmann and Joop E.M. Vermeer 4. Patterning at the shoot apical meristem and phyllotaxis Bihai Shi and Teva Vernoux 5. Leaf development and evolution Lachezar A. Nikolov, Adam Runions, Mainak Das Gupta and Miltos Tsiantis 6. Vascular tissue development in plants Hiroo Fukuda and Kyoko Ohashi-Ito 7. Transcriptional networks orchestrating programmed cell death during plant dlãÇ