Architecture and plasticity: optimizing plant performance in dynamic environments

Affiliations

¹ Plant Ecophysiology, Department of Biology, Utrecht University, 3584 CH Utrecht, the Netherlands.
² Center for Integrative Genomics, Faculty of Biology and Medicine, University of Lausanne, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland.
³ Department of Biology, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina 27278, USA.
⁴ Department of Plant Biology, College of Biological Sciences, University of California, Davis, California 95616, USA.

Editorial

Ronald Pierik et al. Plant Physiol. 2021.

. 2021 Nov 3;187(3):1029-1032.

doi: 10.1093/plphys/kiab402.

¹ Plant Ecophysiology, Department of Biology, Utrecht University, 3584 CH Utrecht, the Netherlands.
² Center for Integrative Genomics, Faculty of Biology and Medicine, University of Lausanne, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland.
³ Department of Biology, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina 27278, USA.
⁴ Department of Plant Biology, College of Biological Sciences, University of California, Davis, California 95616, USA.

Abstract

Plasticity in plant architecture drives plant performance through dedicated molecular networks.

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