The hormonal circuitry controlling development in plants can be studied and re-programmed with hormone activated Cas9-based repressors.

Puzzle-shape cells in the epidermis of many plants form due to a development constraint based on mechanical forces.

Leaf position, shape and orientation are pre-patterned by cell type boundaries in the shoot meristem.

TALE homeodomain transcription factors have been independently recruited to regulate gametophyte to sporophyte transitions in two complex multicellular eukaryotic supergroups, land plants in Archaeplastida and brown algae in Chromalveolata.

Ectopic expression of Symbiosis Receptor-like Kinase (SYMRK) in roots of the legume Lotus japonicus resulted in spontaneous activation of nodule organogenesis and mycorrhiza-related gene expression in the absence of microbial symbionts or signalling molecules.

The maize CLAVATA receptor, FEA2, functions in the perception of two different ligands, and remarkably that signaling from these different inputs is differentiated by the receptor interacting with two different downstream components.

Transgenic analysis reveals a role for LEAFY in ferns that supports a trajectory from general to floral meristem-specific function as land plants evolved.

The auxin-sensitive Aux/IAA transcriptional repressors regulate approximately 35% of the annotated genes in Physcomitrella patens and exhibit complex interactions with both the activating and repressing ARF transcription factors.

An ancient and conserved genetic mechanism for cell differentiation is under distinct negative regulation in different lineages of land plants.