NOVEL PLANT GENES AND USES THEREOF

摘要

Disclosed are genes and polypeptides capable of affecting the growth and shape of lateral shoot organs in plants or plant cells and/or altering the arrest of meristemoid cell division during organ development. In particular, these genes and polypeptides are disclosed SEQ ID NOs. 1 to 8. Also disclosed is data showing that these genes and polypeptides conserved in various eudicot plants. This provides the advantages providing genetically directed increases or decreases in gene expression to increase or decrease the size of shoot organs.