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A Morphogeneticist’s View of Correlative Inhibition in the Shoot

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The Dynamics of Meristem Cell Populations

Part of the book series: Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology ((AEMB,volume 18))

Abstract

The complexity of shoot form depends, in part, on a number of correlative effects between various organs. The best known of these is apical dominance, the effect of the terminal apex on the lateral buds, but there are also correlative effects between the lateral buds themselves, and growing leaves or leaf primordia may affect other leaves or the axillary buds which they subtend. Correlative inhibition between buds has been recognized most frequently in the case of cotyledonary buds (Snow44; Sachs36; McIntyre24), but exists also between two buds at higher nodes in decussate or bijugate species, at least if the buds are of unequal size. In most species with paired leaves the buds may possess different developmental potentialities, one of each pair developing as a vegetative shoot and the other as a flower, inflorescence or thorn; in others they merely develop as shoots of unequal size (Champagnat5; Goebel13; Loiseau21; Raciborski35). Such species provide good material for the study of the less common correlative effects in the shoot. Various experiments have been or will be reported in more detail elsewhere (Cutter8; Cutter and Chiu9), but are discussed briefly now along with a more general consideration of the morphogenetic aspects of the phenomenon of apical dominance.

The experimental work was supported in part by NSF grant GB-6591 and GB-12905, for which grateful acknowledgement is made. I am also indebted to Mr. H. Chiu, Miss M. J. Mahony, and Mr. L. J. Feldman for technical assistance at various time.

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Cutter, E.G. (1972). A Morphogeneticist’s View of Correlative Inhibition in the Shoot. In: Miller, M.W., Kuehnert, C.C. (eds) The Dynamics of Meristem Cell Populations. Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, vol 18. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-3207-7_4

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