In wheat plants at the vegetative growth stage, the shoot apical meristem (SAM) produces leaf primordia. When reproductive growth is initiated, the SAM forms an inflorescence meristem (IM) that differentiates a series...
supported by a grant(30870175) from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (to CYH);the Hundred Talents Project of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (to CYH)
The origin of morphological and ecological novelties is a long-standing problem in evolutionary biology. Understanding these processes requires investigation from both the development and evolution standpoints, which ...