LEAFY maintains apical stem cell activity during shoot development in the fern Ceratopteris richardii
During land plant evolution, determinate spore-bearing axes (retained in extant bryophytes such as mosses) were progressively transformed into indeterminate branching shoots with specialized reproductive axes that form flowers. The LEAFY transcription factor, which is required for the first zygotic...
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eLife Sciences Publications
2018
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