Lecture 1: Cellular Architecture
Information sheets:
Evolution of plant cell features.
Plant cell types.
Plant cell specialisation.
Plant vasculature.
Plant cell organelles.
Glossary.
Lecture 2: Patterning of Cell Division
Chapter 6, “Molecular Plant Development, from gene to plant”, Peter Westhoff, Holger Jeske, Gerd Jurgens, Klaus Kloppstech and Gerhardt Link, Giorg Thieme Verlag, 1998.
Lecture 3: Polarity
Plant signalling: the inexorable rise of auxin. Fleming, A. J. (2006). Trends Cell Biol, 16, 397-402.
Auxin transport: a field in flux. Kramer, E. M. and Bennett, M. J. (2006). Trends Plant Sci, 11, 382-6.
Dynamic integration of auxin transport and signalling. Leyser, O. (2006). Curr Biol, 16, R424-33.
Auxin in action: signalling, transport and the control of plant growth and development. Teale, W. D., Paponov, I. A. and Palme, K. (2006). Nat Rev Mol Cell Biol, 7, 847-59.
Lecture 4: Radial Patterning
Cell-to-cell transport of proteins and fluorescent tracers via plasmodesmata during plant development. Zambryski, P. Journal of Cell Biology 162:165-168, 2004.
Cell-to-cell communication via plasmodesmata during Arabidopsis embryogenesis. Kim, I. and Zambryski, P. C. (2005). Curr Opin Plant Biol, 8, 593-9.
Intercellular movement of transcription factors. Kurata, T., Okada, K. and Wada, T. (2005). Curr Opin Plant Biol, 8, 600-5.
Lecture 5: Meristems
Stem cell regulation in the Arabidopsis shoot apical meristem. Leor Williams and Jennifer Fletcher, Current Opinion in Plant Biology, 8:585-586, 2005.
Shoot apical meristem maintenance: the art of a dynamic balance. Cristel C. Carles and Jennifer C. Fletcher, Trends in Plant Science, 8:394-401, 2003.
Formation and maintenance of the shoot apical meristem. John Bowman and Yuval Eshed, Trends in Plant Sciences 5: 110-115, 2000.
Lecture 7: Lateral organ development
Shoot meristem function and leaf polarity: the role of Class III HD-ZIP genes. Mary Byrne, PLOS Genetics 2:785-790, 2006.
Something on the side: axillary meristems and plant development. Tom Bennett and Ottoline Leyser, Plant Mol. Biology 60:843-854, 2006.
Establishment of polarity in angiosperm lateral organs. John Bowman, Yuval Eshed and Stuart Baum, Trends in Genetics 18:134-141, 2002.
Lecture 6: Cell Fates
Stomatal Development. Dominique Bergmann and Fred Sack, Annu. Rev. Plant Biol. 58:163-181, 2007.
The role of the SCRAMBLED receptor-like kinase in patterning the Arabidopsis root epidermis. Su-Hwan Kwak and John Schiefelbein, Developmental Biology 302:118-131, 2006
Plant Development: Spacing out stomatal pores. Gwyneth Ingram. Current Biology 15:R663-665, 2005.
Epidermal pattern formation the root and shoot of Arabidopsis. S. Schellmann, M. Hulskamp and J Uhrig, Biochem Soc Trans. 35:146-148, 2007.
How do cells know what they want to be when they grow up? Lessons from epidermal patterning in Arabidopsis. Larkin JC, Brown ML, Schiefelbein, J. Annual Reviews of Plant Biology 54:403-30, 2003.
Cell-fate specification in the epidermis: a common patterning mechanism in the root and shoot. John Schiefelbein, Current Opinion in Plant Biology, 6:74-78, 2003.
Lecture 8: Morphogenetic Models
Chapter 4, "The Self-Made Tapestry: Pattern formation in nature" Phillip Ball, Oxford University Press, 1998.
Suggested Textbooks:
The Evolution of Plants, K.J. Willis & J.C. McElwain. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2002. (website: http://www.oup.com/uk/plantevol)
An Introduction to Plant Structure and Development: plant anatomy for the twenty-first century, Charles B. Beck. Cambridge University Press, 2005.
Mechanisms in Plant Development, Ottoline Leyser & Stephen Day, Blackwell Science, UK, 2002.
