Plant Development and Evolution

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.

1. Evolution of the plant body plan Péter Szövényi, 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 development Marta Cubría-Radío and Moritz K. Nowack 8. Molecular regulation of flower development Bennett Thomson and Frank Wellmer 9. Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose: The developmental evolution of flowers Elena M. Kramer 10. Pre-meiotic anther development Karina van der Linde and Virginia Walbot 11. The evolution and patterning of male gametophyte development Dieter Hackenberg and David Twell 12. Evolution of development of pollen performance Joseph H. Williams and John B. Reese 13. Female reproductive organ formation: A multitasking endeavor Sara Simonini and Lars Østergaard 14. Development and evolution of the unique ovules of flowering plants Charles S. Gasser and Debra J. Skinner 15. Development and function of the flowering plant female gametophyte Isil Erbasol Serbes, Joakim Palovaara and Rita Groß-Hardt 16. Self-incompatibility in the Brassicaceae: Regulation and mechanism of self-recognition June B. Nasrallah 17. Friend or foe: Signaling mechanisms during double fertilization in flowering seed plants Liang-zi Zhou and Thomas Dresselhaus 18. Genetic, molecular and parent-of-origin regulation of early embryogenesis in flowering plants Alma Armenta-Medina and C. Stewart Gillmor 19. Histology versus phylogeny: Viewing plant embryogenesis from an evo-devo perspective John W. Chandler and Wolfgang Werr 20. Apomixis in flowering plants: Developmental and evolutionary considerations Gloria León-Martínez and Jean-Philippe Vielle-Calzada 21. Seeds—An evolutionary innovation underlying reproductive success in flowering plants Célia Baroux and Ueli Grossniklaus

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