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\mymulticolumn{2}{x{8.4cm}}{The plane (direction) and symmetry of cell division are immensely important in determining plant form.} \tn 
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\mymulticolumn{2}{x{8.4cm}}{Asymmetrical cell division, in which one daughter cell receives more cytoplasm than the other during mitosis, is fairly common in plant cells and usually signals a key event in development} \tn 
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\mymulticolumn{2}{x{8.4cm}}{PLANT DEVELOPMENT INVOLVES COMMITMENTS} \tn 
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Commitment & the process whereby a cell becomes firmly committed to just one of the several developmental pathways that are open to it before expressing the phenotype of the differentiated cell type. \tn 
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Commitment" or "determination" & is a general term that includes setting up of polarities and pattern formation \tn 
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\mymulticolumn{2}{x{8.4cm}}{Inherent in the concept of polarity is the presence of poles, typically two, with an axis running between them, thus apical-basal polarity, or in and out (radial) polarity} \tn 
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\mymulticolumn{2}{x{8.4cm}}{Plant development is hierarchical and involves a series of progressive commitments.} \tn 
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\mymulticolumn{2}{x{8.4cm}}{Illustrated by the first division of the zygote setting out the apical and basal cells, which give rise to the embryo proper and suspensor, respectively} \tn 
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Suspensor & – structure that connects endosperm to an embryo. It pushes the embryo towards the endosperm in order to draw its nutrition. \tn 
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\mymulticolumn{2}{x{8.4cm}}{At the tissue level, the protoderm is separated from the central cells, followed by the separation of the central cells into ground meristem and procambium, and later, in roots, separation of the ground meristem into cortex and endodermis and of procambium into pericycle and vascular tissues.} \tn 
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\mymulticolumn{2}{x{8.4cm}}{Vascular cambium, when established, is committed to giving rise to derivatives by specific planes of cell division, and the derivatives in turn are committed to forming xylem or phloem cells.} \tn 
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\mymulticolumn{2}{x{8.4cm}}{The functions are performed efficiently and to the benefit of the whole organism, but at the price that the specialized cells, tissues, and organs have only limited parts of their genome open for transcription.} \tn 
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\mymulticolumn{2}{x{8.4cm}}{◼ Typical leaf mesophyll cell, which is specialized for photosynthesis, may have 40-50 well differentiated chloroplasts.} \tn 
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\mymulticolumn{2}{x{8.4cm}}{In contrast, a root parenchyma cell storing starch, will have no chloroplasts, no chlorophyll and associated proteins, and no RUBISCO. Instead, it would have amyloplasts (starch-storing plastids) and large amounts of ADP glucose pyrophosphorylase} \tn 
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\mymulticolumn{2}{x{8.4cm}}{The root and mesophyll cells have the same genomic DNA, but they are specialized for different functions because different genes are expressed in the two types of cells.} \tn 
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\mymulticolumn{2}{x{8.4cm}}{Differential gene expression is used in a broad sense to include all gene-directed activity, not only gene transcription, but also posttranscriptional and posttranslational modifications, as well as gene silencing.} \tn 
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\mymulticolumn{2}{x{8.4cm}}{Differential gene activity is the basis for the phenomenon known as epigenesis, the unfolding of the developmental program of an organism} \tn 
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\mymulticolumn{2}{x{8.4cm}}{a process where cells become biochemically and structurally specialized to carry out specific functions} \tn 
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\mymulticolumn{2}{x{8.4cm}}{◼occurs through cell determination, a series of molecular events in which activities of certain genes are altered in ways that cause a cell to progressively commit to a particular differentiation pathway} \tn 
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\mymulticolumn{2}{x{8.4cm}}{Asymmetrical cell division, in which one daughter cell receives more cytoplasm than the other during mitosis, is fairly common in plant cells and usually signals a key event in development} \tn 
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\mymulticolumn{2}{x{8.4cm}}{Young leaves can be excised from the shoot apex and placed in a culture medium, and they develop and form a complete leaf.} \tn 
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\mymulticolumn{2}{x{8.4cm}}{In many ferns, leaf development occurs over a long period} \tn 
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\mymulticolumn{2}{x{8.4cm}}{n one experiment, primordia P1 through P10 were excised and cultured.} \tn 
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\mymulticolumn{2}{x{8.4cm}}{Results clearly showed that younger primordia were undetermined and produced shoots, both stem and leaves, whereas older primordia were progressively more committed (or determined) to produce leaves only} \tn 
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\mymulticolumn{2}{x{8.4cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Shoot Meristem Identity}}  \tn
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\mymulticolumn{2}{x{8.4cm}}{Plant homeobox genes are required for cell fate determination, as well as pattern definition and specification of organ/tissue boundaries.} \tn 
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KNOX (for knotted-like homeobox) & family of genes, named after the maize KNOTTEDl (KNl) gene \tn 
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 & is further divided into two classes, I and II. Class I KNOX genes \tn 
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 & are expressed in shoot meristems and are downregulated in primordia of lateral organs. \tn 
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\mymulticolumn{2}{x{8.4cm}}{For instance, the KNl gene in maize and its ortholog STM gene in Arabidopsis are first expressed in the globular-heart stage embryo in cells of the presumptive shoot apex, but not in cotyledons (scutellum in maize).} \tn 
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\mymulticolumn{2}{x{8.4cm}}{Subsequently, they are expressed in both vegetative and floral shoot meristems of the adult plant, but are not expressed in cells on the periphery, which are the founder cells of lateral organs, such as leaves or petals.} \tn 
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\mymulticolumn{2}{x{8.4cm}}{Floral meristems express other regulatory genes that distinguish them from vegetative shoot meristems} \tn 
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\mymulticolumn{2}{x{8.4cm}}{In dicots, many of these genes belong to the MADS-box gene family.} \tn 
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\mymulticolumn{2}{x{8.4cm}}{LEAFY \{LEY), a non-MADS-box gene, and APETALAl \{API), a MADS-box gene, in Arabidopsis encode transcription factors that act as primary determinants of floral meristem identity.} \tn 
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\mymulticolumn{2}{x{8.4cm}}{API also specifies an organ, the sepals whorl in Arabidopsis flower.} \tn 
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\mymulticolumn{2}{x{8.4cm}}{Loss-of-function mutations in these genes (e.g., Ify, apl) lead to a partial conversion of presumptive floral sites into shoots.} \tn 
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\mymulticolumn{2}{x{8.4cm}}{EXTERNAL OR INTERNAL PERTURBATIONS MAY CAUSE A REVERSAL OF ESTABLISHED COMMITMENTS} \tn 
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\mymulticolumn{2}{x{8.4cm}}{The extent of reversal, whether partial, i.e., going back a few steps, or complete, going back to the zygotic stage, seems to be a function of the extent of perturbation. Two terms, dedifferentiation and redifferentiation, are used to denote a reversal of established patterns and differentiation along new lines.} \tn 
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\seqsplit{Dedifferentiation} - & means a programmed change in the metabolic machinery of a cell, shutting down of genes that were being transcribed in connection with the established function of the cell, and adjustment to new conditions. \tn 
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\seqsplit{morphogenesis} & The development of form, in which differentiated cells in specific locations become spatially organized into recognizable structures \tn 
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pattern formation & The development of specific structures in specific locations \tn 
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 & a series of steps requiring signalling between cells, changes in the shapes and metabolism of certain cells and precise cell interactions \tn 
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\mymulticolumn{2}{x{8.4cm}}{Many developmental biologists postulate that pattern formation is \newline determined by positional information in the form of signals that \newline continuously indicate to each cell its location within a developing \newline structure. According to this hypothesis, each cell within a \newline developing organ responds to positional information from \newline neighboring cells by differentiating into a particular cell type, \newline oriented in a particular way}  \tn 
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\mymulticolumn{2}{x{8.4cm}}{Plants typically have an axis, with a root end and a shoot end.} \tn 
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\mymulticolumn{2}{x{8.4cm}}{Adventitious roots form within the root end of a stem cutting, and adventitious shoots arise from the shoot end of a root cutting.} \tn 
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\mymulticolumn{2}{x{8.4cm}}{Morphogenesis in plants is often under the control of homeotic genes, master regulatory genes that mediate many of the major events in an individual's development.} \tn 
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\mymulticolumn{2}{x{8.4cm}}{Over expression of KNOTTED-J gene in tomato plants results in leaves that are "supercompound" (right) compared with normal leaves} \tn 
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\mymulticolumn{2}{x{8.4cm}}{◼The morphological changes that arise from these transitions in shoot apical meristem activity are called phase changes} \tn 
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\mymulticolumn{2}{x{8.4cm}}{When plants recognize an opportunity to flower, signals are transmitted through florigen.} \tn 
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\mymulticolumn{2}{x{8.4cm}}{The first genetic change involves the switch from the vegetative to the floral state.} \tn 
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\mymulticolumn{2}{x{8.4cm}}{The second genetic event follows the commitment of the plant to form flowers.} \tn 
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\mymulticolumn{2}{x{8.4cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{ABC MODEL OF FLOWER DEVELOPMENT}}  \tn
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\mymulticolumn{2}{x{8.4cm}}{In the simple ABC model of floral development, three gene activities (termed A, B, and C-functions) interact to determine the developmental identities of the organ primordia within the floral meristem} \tn 
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\mymulticolumn{2}{x{8.4cm}}{A mutation in a plant organ identity gene can cause abnormal floral development} \tn 
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