A Review On Molecular Basis Of Plant Architecture
Weekly Science Research Journal, (November 2013)Abstract
Higher plants establish a great diversity of aesthetically pleasing structures, consistent with the conventional concept of architecture related to buildings, implicating both art and science and specifying both form and function. Although plant architecture is to some extent influenced by environmental
factors such as light, temperature, humidity, nutrition, and plant density, plant architecture is determined mainly by the plant's genetic program. Therefore, plant architecture is the best means to identify a plant. Studies of plant architecture and its influences on human existence are steeped in a long
history. Extensive research on plant architecture has been focused on the fundamental questions, such as how a plant maintains the activity of its shoot apical meristem (SAM) and initiates the axillary meristems (AMs), when AMs begin to grow to generate branches, when the SAM starts to produce the
inflorescence meristems and then floral organs, and when shoots begin to elongate and stop .