While these and a number of other transcription factor genes are clearly involved in establishing and patterning shoot meristems, it is less clear whether and how they affect the rate of meristematic growth and organ production.
We used the above described motif patterns: "flower-pattern", "seed-pattern", "root-pattern", "shoot-pattern" and "whole plant-pattern" to search for genes expressed in each PS within the entire A. thaliana genome.
Those correctly classified promoters per PS were scanned for TFBSs of their over-represented motifs within four bins covering the entire promoter region: 0 to -50, -50 to -100, -100 to -150 and -150 to -200, thus defining five motif patterns: "flower-pattern", "seed-pattern", "root-pattern", "shoot-pattern" and "whole plant-pattern".
The pattern in shoot biomass was similar to the pattern in total above-ground biomass (not shown).
The degree and pattern of shoot lateral organs, mainly leaves and branches, are another key determinant of plant architecture.
Next, Coudert, Palubicki et al. made a computational model that was able to simulate the pattern of shoot branching in the moss.
In addition, the seasonal pattern of shoot elongation and diameter growth in B. ermanii was observed during the growing season over two years (2003 2004) in Hokkaido, north of Japan, and it was found that cessation of shoot elongation was earlier than that of radial growth (unpublished data by M. Toda, K. Kato and K. Laska).
In Arabidopsis, HD-Zip III gene expression patterns are correlated with auxin distribution patterns in shoot meristem and in meristematic tissues of the vasculature (McConnell et al. 2001; Otsuga et al. 2001; Emery et al. 2003; Prigge et al. 2005).
Recent studies with peach have demonstrated that daily patterns of stem water potential are directly related to patterns of shoot growth.
Once at home, my plan was to get back into a normal sleep pattern before shooting starts on my next film.
The work may not be that complicated if "Friends" follows its usual pattern of shooting episodes that are considerably longer than the 22 minutes required for a half-hour time slot.
