The geometries and topologies of leaves, flowers, roots, shoots, and their arrangements
have fascinated plant biologists and mathematicians alike. As such, plant morphology is …

Increased understanding of plant genetics and the development of powerful and easier-to-use
gene editing tools over the past century have revolutionized humankind’s ability to deliver …

Background The maize INDETERMINATE1 gene, ID1, is a key regulator of the transition to
flowering and the founding member of a transcription factor gene family that encodes a …

Higher plants use multiple perceptive measures to coordinate flowering time with environmental
and endogenous cues. Physiological studies show that florigen is a mobile factor that …

Plant architecture attributes such as tillering, plant height and panicle size are important
agronomic traits that determine rice (Oryza sativa) productivity. Here, we report that altered auxin …

Almost all that is known about the transition to flowering in grasses is based on studies of
agronomic species. The grain produced by two tropically derived grasses, maize (Zea mays) …

Leaf shape varies spectacularly among plants. Leaves are the primary source of photoassimilate
in crop plants, and understanding the genetic basis of variation in leaf morphology is …

Efforts to understand the genetic and environmental conditioning of plant morphology are
hindered by the lack of flexible and effective tools for quantifying morphology. Here, we …

Current morphometric methods that comprehensively measure shape cannot compare the
disparate leaf shapes found in seed plants and are sensitive to processing artifacts. We …

The INDETERMINATE1 (ID1) transcription factor is a key regulator of the transition to
flowering in maize. ID1 is expressed in immature leaves where it controls the production or …