Overview of Plant Shooting Branch

The development of plant branching plays a pivotal role in the morphogenesis of plants. It is affected by the genes and also by the environment. Recent studies of plant branching had made great progresses in the development of the branch control of the physiology, biochemistry, functional genomics, comparative genomics and other aspects. Moreover, we got many mutants associated with the branch development from pea, Arabidopsis, petunia, rice, tomato and corn, such as the formation of axillary meristem-related revoluta (rev), pinhead, monoculm1 (moc1), laterral suppressor (ls), blind/torosa and other mutants. Preliminary study showed that the formation of meristem development was controlled by regulating hormones and transcription factor interaction network, but the development was both conservative and distinctive in different Mycobacterium species.