Leaf Development And Evolution 3: Morphogenesis Flashcards
Size
Uniform growth
Shape
Differential growth
Cell expansion and division are co-ordinated to produce
Growth
Growth can be anisotropic
- orientation; different structure
- must be specified
- simple principles lead to different shapes
How do genes control leaf shape?
Specifying growth rates and orientations
Progressive changes in cell division orientation in maize leaf development
- early: isotropic
- P5: division in base and upper middle are oriented
- at the tip: just expansions
- P7: expansion thru majority of leaf
Division in maize
Contributes to formation of leaf sheath length
Maize leaf general progression
1) wide structure: primordial encircle meristem
2) transition to longer structure
3) v. long and narrow
- all achieved by changes in orientation and division cessation from tip -> base
Differential gene expression regulates
Cell division vs expansion domains
Late development determinants
Duration, rate and size
Cell division arrest has
Feedback regulation at the arrest front
Feedback regulation at the arrest front
- TCP proteins
- miRNAs reinforce boundary
- Arrest front moved basipetally
- Cell division -> expansion
TCP proteins
- promote cell expansion
- activate in expanding part of leaf
- activate miRNA396
- GRF inhibited
Basipetal
Tip -> base
GRF TFs
Promote cell proliferation
Complex shapes
- serrations, lobing
- arise from persistent growth in isolated blade regions
- superimposition
Lobing
- restricted growth in sinus?
- accelerated growth in lobe?
Both?
Serrations
Lobes + sinuses
Lobing in A. species’
- associated w STM activity in leaf
- high: distinct lobes emerge from central petiole
- complexity spectrum
Ectopic lobing is suppressed by
GA
For the indeterminacy that leads to proliferation of lobing to be enabled
- GA must be suppressed