JAG had previously been shown to be necessary for the development and shaping of lateral organs such as leaves [ 56].
It is an exciting possibility that large glycosylated proteins, like mucins, similarly contribute to the shaping of non-chitin-producing organs by providing a luminal scaffold during their development.
It works as an X-ray contrast medium because it is radiopaque or radio opaque, that is, it blocks X-rays so that the resulting picture clearly shows in white the shape of organs that contain it.
The experimental results showed that the proposed methods of modeling the three-dimensional shapes of organs and simulating the growth of rice plant are feasible and effective, and the generated three-dimensional images are realistic.
The theory could have implications on final shapes of organs whenever the growth is limited inside a constraining volume, such as lungs, liver or crabs legs.
As such, the Fat protein appears to be crucial for controlling the size and shape of organs.
In addition to regulating growth, Ft also regulates planar cell polarity (PCP), oriented cell division and proximodistal patterning of appendages (reviewed in Thomas and Strutt, 2012; Sharma and McNeill, 2013) and its regulated activity therefore impacts the size and shape of organs.
It functions directly as a transcriptional regulator by interacting with several nuclear factors and plays a central role in the Hippo pathway, which regulates the size and shape of organ development [ 8– 12].
In this paper, data is presented without scatter correction to ensure the influence of organ shape is isolated.
Morphogenesis, a process that deals with the spatial arrangement of cells over time to generate the final shape of tissues, organs and thereby organisms, spans several scales of organization and relies on changes in the organization of groups of cells.
