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The close relationship of husks to maize floral organs shown by gene-expression profiles suggests that husks could be considered as photosynthetic floral organs arising from an inflorescence meristem.
In a gene-expression study during Poplar wood development, > 40% genes were differentially expressed in different development zones within the vascular meristem [ 42].
In the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana many genes affecting flowering time or the transition from the vegetative to the reproductive phase have been identified and a number of them have been cloned (for recent reviews, see [ 1 2 ] ). This has resulted in a model in which meristem identity genes activate a developmental program that enables the shoot apical meristem to produce reproductive structures.
The meristem identity genes can be activated via three different pathways.
Colasanti and Sundaresan [ 11 ] proposed a role for the vasculature in the control of transport of signaling molecules between leaves and the shoot-apical meristem.