The iconic, palmately compound leaves of Here, we present a new method that overcomes the challenge of nonhomologous landmarks in palmate, pinnate, and lobed leaves, using We analyze 341 leaves from 24 individuals from nine Intra‐leaf modeling offers a rapid, cost‐effective means of identifying
In species with compound leaves, the positions of leaflet primordium initiation are associated with local peaks of auxin accumulation. However, the role of auxin during the late developmental stages and outgrowth of compound leaves remains largely unknown. Using genome resequencing approaches, we identified insertion sites at four alleles of the Linkage analysis and complementation tests showed that the Our work demonstrates that the YUCCA1/YUCCA4 subgroup plays very important roles in the outgrowth of lateral leaflets during compound leaf development of
- NSF-PAR ID:
- 10401917
- Publisher / Repository:
- Wiley-Blackwell
- Date Published:
- Journal Name:
- New Phytologist
- Volume:
- 227
- Issue:
- 2
- ISSN:
- 0028-646X
- Page Range / eLocation ID:
- p. 613-628
- Format(s):
- Medium: X
- Sponsoring Org:
- National Science Foundation
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