Auxin Transport and Signaling in Leaf Vascular Patterning

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Abstract

Reticulate tissue systems pervade most multicellular organisms, and the principles controlling the formation of these cellular networks have long been object of interest of biologists and mathematicians. In particular, the beautiful and varied networks of veins in plant leaves have intrigued mankind since antiquity. Vascular cells are aligned with one another within continuous veins that reproducibly supply all areas of the leaf, but the precise path of vein formation is highly variable. Recent advances suggest a self-organizing control mechanism in which an apical-basal continuous flow of signal could establish a basic coordinate system for body-axis and vascular-strand formation, and account for both the reproducible and the variable features of leaf vein patterns.

Keywords

Auxin Transport Shoot Meristem Embryo Axis Vascular Strand Vein Formation 
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Acknowledgments

We thank The Company of Biologists and Elsevier for kindly granting permission to use published material as template for figures. We apologize to colleagues whose results could not be included in the available space. The authors’ vascular research is supported by Discovery Grants of the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada.

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. 1.Department of Biological SciencesUniversity of AlbertaEdmontonCanada
  2. 2.Department of Cell and Systems BiologyUniversity of TorontoTorontoCanada

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