Abstract
Recent research has provided significant advances in the identification of gene products
which influence leaf form. In this review, a summary of this progress is made and
an outline sketched of the future directions and challenges facing workers in this
area. An overall view is taken in which the present characterisation of the molecular
architects of leaf morphogenesis is envisaged to link up eventually with the final
downstream elements of differential tissue growth which, integrated over developmental
time, lead to the range of leaf forms observed in nature.
Key words
Leaf - morphogenesis - growth - molecular genetics.
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A. J. Fleming
Institute of Plant Sciences
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
Universitätsstrasse 2
8092 Zurich
Switzerland
Email: andrew.fleming@ipw.biol.ethz.ch
Section Editor: L. A. C. J. Voesenek