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ERC Advanced Grant · 2022

How plant cells set the tempo of rhythmic shoot construction

Time is central to the development of the body plan of multicellular organisms. One prominent developmental timing mechanism is the rhythmic, iterative addition of tissues and organs. While the tempo of rhythmic construction is often set by developmental clocks, plants use a unique mechanism in the shoot, whereby rhythmic organogenesis emerges from dynamic changes in the distribution of the hormone auxin. High auxin levels trigger organogenesis but, contrary to a long-standing theory, the period of shoot organ production - or plastochron - cannot simply be encoded in periodic auxin oscillations, due to noise in these oscillations. Revealing how the tempo of shoot construction is established…

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