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ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Fukushima K
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4382701 | biostudies-literature | 2015
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Nature communications 20150316
Complex morphology is an evolutionary outcome of phenotypic diversification. In some carnivorous plants, the ancestral planar leaf has been modified to form a pitcher shape. However, how leaf development was altered during evolution remains unknown. Here we show that the pitcher leaves of Sarracenia purpurea develop through cell division patterns of adaxial tissues that are distinct from those in bifacial and peltate leaves, subsequent to standard expression of adaxial and abaxial marker genes. ...[more]