Developmental transitions: integrating environmental cues with hormonal signaling in the chromatin landscape in plants

Plant development is predominantly postembryonic and tuned in to respond to environmental cues. All living plant cells can be triggered to de-differentiate, assume different cell identities, or form a new organism. This developmental plasticity is thought to be an adaptation to the sessile lifestyle of plants. Recent discoveries have advanced our understanding of the orchestration of plant developmental switches by transcriptional master regulators, chromatin state changes, and hormone response pathways. Here, we review these recent advances with emphasis on the earliest stages of plant development and on the switch from pluripotency to differentiation in different plant organ systems.

• Publication year

  2017

• Venue

  Genome Biology

• Publication date

  2017-05-10

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1186/s13059-017-1228-9PMID 28490341PMCID 5425979
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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