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Shaping a snapdragon
Email: Jonathan Weitzman - jonathanweitzman@hotmail.com News from The Scientist 2003, 4(1):20030314-01 doi:10.1186/20030314-01
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The rate, orientation and direction of cell growth and division determine the shape that a given tissue will adopt. In the March 13 Nature, Anne-Gaelle Rolland-Lagan and colleagues at the John Innes Centre, Norwich, UK, describe a clonal analysis approach to investigate the role of cell growth in the development of asymmetric petals in the plant Antirrhinum (snapdragon) (Nature, 422:161-163, March 13, 2003).
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