10.7554/eLife.32794.001 The shape and function of plant cells are often highly interdependent.
The puzzle-shaped cells that appear in the epidermis of many plants are a striking …

Plant leaves are differentiated organs that arise sequentially from a population of pluripotent
stem cells at the shoot apical meristem (SAM). There is substantial diversity in leaf shape, …

Highlights • High-throughput methods are generating hypotheses on GRN organization. •
Comparative gene network studies are helping understand evolution of diverse traits. • …

Highlights • Leaf form is an outcome of spatio-temporal control of growth patterns. • Transcription
factors largely determine localized growth patterns. • Computational modelling provides …

The TCP transcription factors control multiple developmental traits in diverse plant species.
Members of this family share an ∼60-residue-long TCP domain that binds to DNA. The TCP …

Butterfly eyespots are beautiful novel traits with an unknown developmental origin. Here we
show that eyespots likely originated via cooption of parts of an ancestral appendage gene-…

Lateral appendages often show allometric growth with a specific growth polarity along the
proximo-distal axis. Studies on leaf growth in model plants have identified a basipetal growth …

Eyespot patterns of nymphalid butterflies are an example of a novel trait yet, the developmental
origin of eyespots is still not well understood. Several genes have been associated with …

Eukaryotic cell‐free protein synthesis (CFPS) can accelerate expression and high‐throughput
analysis of complex proteins with functionally relevant post‐translational modifications (…

How the interplay between cell-and tissue-level processes produces correctly proportioned
organs is a key problem in biology. In plants, the relative size of leaves compared with their …