Understanding how auxin and dorsoventral patterning are coordinated in plants

这项研究将有助于首次揭示叶子、花和花器官的生长是如何通过组织图案基因和植物生长激素生长素协调的。所有的植物都以这种方式生长，我们的发现，使用模型实验室植物，将适用于作物物种。因此，我们既将扩大我们的核心知识，多细胞生物是如何构建的，也产生了可能性，修改模式的叶和花的发展在农业和园艺物种。 可能会产生叶子更大的作物，或者不同结构的花朵。

This study will help reveal for the first time how the outgrowth of leaves, flowers and floral organs is coordinated by tissue patterning genes and the plant growth hormone auxin. All plants grow in this way, and our findings, made using a model laboratory plant, will be applicable to crop species as well. Thus we will both expand our core knowledge of how multicellular organisms are constructed, and also generate possibilities for modifying the patterns of leaf and flower development in agricultural and horticultural species. Crops with larger leaves, or flowers of different structure, may result.