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Gradual change in the adaxial-abaxial cell fate during plant leaf development
A horizontal section of Arabidopsis shoot apex (round magenta region at the center) and several leaf primordia (triangular magenta and green regions) generated from the apex. Green and magenta colors are markers of the abaxial and the adaxial cell fates, respectively. Each leaf primordium shows both markers, but the green-to-magenta areal ratio is higher in young primordia (near the apex) than in older primordia (farther from the apex). This indicates that leaf cell fate shifts from the abaxial to the adaxial, according to the leaf development. See Tameshige et al.
Image Credit: Toshiaki Tameshige
Citation: (2013) PLOS Genetics Issue Image | Vol. 9(7) July 2013. PLOS Genet 9(7): ev09.i07. https://doi.org/10.1371/image.pgen.v09.i07
Published: July 25, 2013
Copyright: © 2013 Tameshige et al. . This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
A horizontal section of Arabidopsis shoot apex (round magenta region at the center) and several leaf primordia (triangular magenta and green regions) generated from the apex. Green and magenta colors are markers of the abaxial and the adaxial cell fates, respectively. Each leaf primordium shows both markers, but the green-to-magenta areal ratio is higher in young primordia (near the apex) than in older primordia (farther from the apex). This indicates that leaf cell fate shifts from the abaxial to the adaxial, according to the leaf development. See Tameshige et al.
Image Credit: Toshiaki Tameshige