Note to users. If you're seeing this message, it means that your browser cannot find this page's style/presentation instructions -- or possibly that you are using a browser that does not support current Web standards. Find out more about why this message is appearing, and what you can do to make your experience of our site the best it can be.

Science 18 July 2003:
Vol. 301. no. 5631, pp. 334 - 336
DOI: 10.1126/science.1085328
Prev | Table of Contents | Next

Review

Phase Change and the Regulation of Developmental Timing in Plants

R. Scott Poethig

Plants produce different types of organs at different times in shoot development. Along with the major changes in organ morphology that take place during developmental transitions, more gradual patterns of variation occur. The identity of organs produced at a particular position on the shoot is determined by interactions between several independently regulated, temporally coordinated processes. Two of these processes are organ production and the specification of organ identity. Coordination of these processes is accomplished in part by a thermal clock and by signal transduction pathways that mediate the response of plants to light.

Plant Science Institute, Department of Biology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA.

E-mail: spoethig{at}sas.upenn.edu

Read the Full Text


THIS ARTICLE HAS BEEN CITED BY OTHER ARTICLES:
The significance of bolting and floral transitions as indicators of reproductive phase change in Arabidopsis.
S. Pouteau and C. Albertini (2009)
J. Exp. Bot. 60, 3367-3377
   Abstract »    Full Text »    PDF »
Gibberellin as a factor in floral regulatory networks.
E. Mutasa-Gottgens and P. Hedden (2009)
J. Exp. Bot. 60, 1979-1989
   Abstract »    Full Text »    PDF »
A Role for Arabidopsis PUCHI in Floral Meristem Identity and Bract Suppression.
Md. R. Karim, A. Hirota, D. Kwiatkowska, M. Tasaka, and M. Aida (2009)
PLANT CELL 21, 1360-1372
   Abstract »    Full Text »    PDF »
PUCHI and Floral Meristem Identity.
G. Bertoni (2009)
PLANT CELL 21, 1327
   Full Text »    PDF »
Progressive Loss of DNA Methylation Releases Epigenetic Gene Silencing From a Tandemly Repeated Maize Myb Gene.
R. S. Sekhon and S. Chopra (2009)
Genetics 181, 81-91
   Abstract »    Full Text »    PDF »
A Protracted and Dynamic Maturation Schedule Underlies Arabidopsis Leaf Development.
I. Efroni, E. Blum, A. Goldshmidt, and Y. Eshed (2008)
PLANT CELL 20, 2293-2306
   Abstract »    Full Text »    PDF »
The ACA10 Ca2+-ATPase Regulates Adult Vegetative Development and Inflorescence Architecture in Arabidopsis.
L. George, S. M. Romanowsky, J. F. Harper, and R. A. Sharrock (2008)
Plant Physiology 146, 716-728
   Abstract »    Full Text »    PDF »
Flowering Time Quantitative Trait Loci Analysis of Oilseed Brassica in Multiple Environments and Genomewide Alignment with Arabidopsis.
Y. Long, J. Shi, D. Qiu, R. Li, C. Zhang, J. Wang, J. Hou, J. Zhao, L. Shi, B.-S. Park, et al. (2007)
Genetics 177, 2433-2444
   Abstract »    Full Text »    PDF »
Maize Histone Deacetylase hda101 Is Involved in Plant Development, Gene Transcription, and Sequence-Specific Modulation of Histone Modification of Genes and Repeats.
V. Rossi, S. Locatelli, S. Varotto, G. Donn, R. Pirona, D. A. Henderson, H. Hartings, and M. Motto (2007)
PLANT CELL 19, 1145-1162
   Abstract »    Full Text »    PDF »
Plant Architecture: A Dynamic, Multilevel and Comprehensive Approach to Plant Form, Structure and Ontogeny.
D. Barthelemy and Y. Caraglio (2007)
Ann. Bot. 99, 375-407
   Abstract »    Full Text »    PDF »
TERMINAL FLOWER1 Is a Mobile Signal Controlling Arabidopsis Architecture.
L. Conti and D. Bradley (2007)
PLANT CELL 19, 767-778
   Abstract »    Full Text »    PDF »
Comparison of environmental and mutational variation in flowering time in Arabidopsis.
S. Pouteau, V. Ferret, and D. Lefebvre (2006)
J. Exp. Bot. 57, 4099-4109
   Abstract »    Full Text »    PDF »
Ontogenetic trends in the morphological features of main stem annual shoots of Pinus pinaster (Pinaceae).
P. Heuret, C. Meredieu, T. Coudurier, F. Courdier, and D. Barthelemy (2006)
Am. J. Botany 93, 1577-1587
   Abstract »    Full Text »    PDF »
A GROWING DEGREE-DAYS BASED TIME-SERIES ANALYSIS FOR PREDICTION OF SCHISTOSOMA JAPONICUM TRANSMISSION IN JIANGSU PROVINCE, CHINA..
G.-J. YANG, A. GEMPERLI, P. VOUNATSOU, M. TANNER, X.-N. ZHOU, and J. UTZINGER (2006)
Am J Trop Med Hyg 75, 549-555
   Abstract »    Full Text »    PDF »
Products of leaf primary carbon metabolism modulate the developmental programme determining plant morphology.
C. Raines and M. Paul (2006)
J. Exp. Bot. 57, 1857-1862
   Abstract »    Full Text »    PDF »
Selection for Establishment Capacity in Reed Canarygrass.
M. D. Casler and D. J. Undersander (2006)
Crop Sci. 46, 1277-1285
   Abstract »    Full Text »    PDF »
The Flowering Integrator FT Regulates SEPALLATA3 and FRUITFULL Accumulation in Arabidopsis Leaves.
P. Teper-Bamnolker and A. Samach (2005)
PLANT CELL 17, 2661-2675
   Abstract »    Full Text »    PDF »
microRNA172 down-regulates glossy15 to promote vegetative phase change in maize.
N. Lauter, A. Kampani, S. Carlson, M. Goebel, and S. P. Moose (2005)
PNAS 102, 9412-9417
   Abstract »    Full Text »    PDF »
SGS3 and SGS2/SDE1/RDR6 are required for juvenile development and the production of trans-acting siRNAs in Arabidopsis.
A. Peragine, M. Yoshikawa, G. Wu, H. L. Albrecht, and R. S. Poethig (2004)
Genes & Dev. 18, 2368-2379
   Abstract »    Full Text »    PDF »
Repression of AGAMOUS by BELLRINGER in Floral and Inflorescence Meristems.
X. Bao, R. G. Franks, J. Z. Levin, and Z. Liu (2004)
PLANT CELL 16, 1478-1489
   Abstract »    Full Text »    PDF »
A Haplotype-Specific Resistance Gene Regulated by BONZAI1 Mediates Temperature-Dependent Growth Control in Arabidopsis.
S. Yang and J. Hua (2004)
PLANT CELL 16, 1060-1071
   Abstract »    Full Text »    PDF »
Circadian Clocks in Daily and Seasonal Control of Development.
T. F. Schultz and S. A. Kay (2003)
Science 301, 326-328
   Abstract »    Full Text »    PDF »


To Advertise     Find Products

Science. ISSN 0036-8075 (print), 1095-9203 (online)